Barry Keoghan knows what it means to have a brush with death, and he recounted his near-fatal battle with necrotizing fasciitis in an interview for GQ’s February cover story. He recovered from the infection just days before filming Martin McDonagh’s 2022 feature The Banshees of Inisherin.
Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, necrotizing fasciitis is a flesh-eating disease caused by a rare bacterial infection, which develops after bacteria enters the body through cuts, scrapes, burns or insect bites. Keoghan stated in his interview that one in five cases is fatal.
Keoghan recalled asking doctors, “But I’m not gonna die, right?” and the medical team telling him, “We don’t know.” For a while, amputation was in consideration.
McDonagh visited Keoghan in the hospital before shooting for Banshees was set to begin, and the filmmaker remembers Keoghan as a picture of calm considering the dire circumstances.
“I...
Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, necrotizing fasciitis is a flesh-eating disease caused by a rare bacterial infection, which develops after bacteria enters the body through cuts, scrapes, burns or insect bites. Keoghan stated in his interview that one in five cases is fatal.
Keoghan recalled asking doctors, “But I’m not gonna die, right?” and the medical team telling him, “We don’t know.” For a while, amputation was in consideration.
McDonagh visited Keoghan in the hospital before shooting for Banshees was set to begin, and the filmmaker remembers Keoghan as a picture of calm considering the dire circumstances.
“I...
- 1/9/2024
- by Zoe G Phillips
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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