Barry Keoghan’s Naked Dance Scene in ‘Saltburn’ Needed 11 Takes
variety.comSPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot points, including the ending for “Saltburn.” In the final moments of Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn,” Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s 2001 song, “Murder on the Dancefloor” pumps out over the speakers, while Barry Keoghan’s Oliver dances stark naked through a grand estate house in the British countryside. “Everything is diabolical, but it’s exhilarating,” Fennell explained. “It’s post-coital, euphoric, solitary and it’s mad.” Cinematographer Linus Sandgren said the scene is about Oliver feeling as if he owns the place.
In capturing it, Fennell used 11 takes before she got the right take from Keoghan. “They were all very beautiful,” she said. “It’s quite a complicated and technical camera.
A lot of the time, he was immensely patient because there was a lot of naked dancing. Take #7 was technically perfect. You could hear everyone’s overjoyed response, but I had to say ‘sorry’ because it was missing whatever it was that made Oliver that slightly human messiness.
So, we had to do it a further four times.” Speaking at the film’s premiere, Keoghan joked, “I think we got it on the fourth take, but people just wanted to keep seeing me dancing.” “Saltburn” welcomes audiences into the echelons of the upper class within British society and the Catton family.
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