How Barry Keoghan went from foster homes to his first Oscar nomination

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“And just a note to little Barry, told you we would get there,' the actor captioned his Instagram post celebrating his first Oscar nomination.

While many applauded his performance in “The Banshees of Inisherin," others, like former NBA playerIn Chapman’s post, he retweeted a clip from Keoghan’s interview on an Irish talk show in April 2018 where the 30-year-old actor recalled growing up in the foster care system.” that his mother battled a drug addiction when he was a child so he lived in 13 different foster homes.

“I was expressing,” he said. “Doing impressions, putting on accents for prank calls, going to the shops and becoming different characters each time.”“To say you wanna be an actor in that environment, you’re not looked down upon, but it’s like, ‘Get with the script. It’s not gonna happen,'" he explained.“‘What more can I lose?’” he said he told himself. “‘The only way is forward.’”

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