Barry Keoghan Gets Real About Foster Care, Trust Issues, and Learning to Dad Without a Blueprint

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Barry Keoghan, the Irish acting phenom who can make you cry with just one squint of those piercing blue eyes, is opening up about his childhood in foster careโ€”and itโ€™s got all the feels. While promoting his impressive resume of making us sob on screen, he dropped by SiriusXMโ€™s This Life of Mine with James Corden to chat about his upbringing. Spoiler alert: it wasnโ€™t exactly a walk in the park (unless that park is an emotional obstacle course with surprise trust issues around every corner).

Barryโ€™s Crash Course in โ€œFamily Hoppingโ€
Host James Corden, who never misses an opportunity to dig deep, asked Barry to explain foster care for those unfamiliar with the concept. Barry, being a class act, didnโ€™t roll his eyes at the question but instead broke it down:

โ€œTwo years was the longest I stayed with one family,โ€ he shared. โ€œYouโ€™re a kid, you donโ€™t really know whatโ€™s going on. One minute youโ€™re thinking, โ€˜Wow, this is my forever family!โ€™ and the next, itโ€™s like, โ€˜Pack up, champ, new adventure!โ€™โ€

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Imagine this: Barry as a tiny tot, clutching his Lego collection, getting yanked from one home to the next, like a very sad, real-life game of musical chairs.

โ€œIt messes with your wiring,โ€ he explained. โ€œYou attach to people, and thenโ€”poofโ€”youโ€™re off to another family. Rinse, repeat. Itโ€™s hard not to grow up thinking, โ€˜Whoโ€™s staying, whoโ€™s going, and am I supposed to pack snacks for the journey?โ€™โ€

Trust Issues? Barryโ€™s Got a Lifetime Supply.
If trust issues were a sport, Barry would have enough medals to host his own Olympics. โ€œYou donโ€™t trust the process of anything,โ€ he said, which, to be fair, makes total sense when your childhood was basically a trust fall with no one to catch you.

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โ€œI struggled with attachment, abandonment, you name it. Therapists? Yeah, Iโ€™ve got a punch card,โ€ he joked (okay, he didnโ€™t joke, but we can picture it). โ€œWhether itโ€™s a movie premiere, becoming a dad, or just ordering a coffee, thereโ€™s always this little voice in the back of my head going, โ€˜Whatโ€™s the catch?โ€™โ€

And letโ€™s not forget the biggest zinger: love. Barry admitted he was suspicious of it. โ€œIโ€™d think, โ€˜Does this person really like me, or are they secretly plotting to swipe my Netflix password?โ€™โ€ Okay, he didnโ€™t say that either, but we feel him.

Fatherhood Without a Cheat Sheet
Now a dad himself, Barryโ€™s in uncharted territory. โ€œWhen youโ€™ve got zero blueprint for how to parent, youโ€™re basically winging it and hoping your kid doesnโ€™t grow up to write a tell-all book about you,โ€ he said (well, in our heads he said it).

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Barry is determined to give his child what he never had. โ€œItโ€™s like, what do I show my child? How do I teach them something I never got to experience?โ€ Itโ€™s heavy stuff, but if thereโ€™s one thing we know about Barry, itโ€™s that heโ€™s got the chops to turn any challenge into a success story.

Barry Keoghan: From Foster Kid to Hollywood Star (with Trust Issues in Tow)
Barryโ€™s journey from bouncing between homes to bouncing between blockbuster movies is proof that life doesnโ€™t hand out manualsโ€”but sometimes, it hands out Oscars. While the road hasnโ€™t been easy, Barryโ€™s willingness to be raw and real about his struggles is as inspiring as his performances.

So, next time you see Barry on the big screen, just remember: this man has been through it, and heโ€™s still here, giving us all the feelsโ€”trust issues and all.

Barry Keoghan Gets Real About Foster Care, Trust Issues, and Learning to Dad Without a Blueprint

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