{"id":229821,"date":"2026-03-21T02:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/barry-keoghan-says-online-bullying-over-his-looks-is-making-him-reconsider-being-on-screen-i-am-hiding-away\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T02:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:13:15","slug":"barry-keoghan-says-online-bullying-over-his-looks-is-making-him-reconsider-being-on-screen-i-am-hiding-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/barry-keoghan-says-online-bullying-over-his-looks-is-making-him-reconsider-being-on-screen-i-am-hiding-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Keoghan Says Online Bullying Over His Looks is Making Him Reconsider Being On Screen: \u2018I Am Hiding Away\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/barry-keoghan\/\" title=\"Barry Keoghan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Barry Keoghan<\/strong><\/a> is sharing how online hate has impacted him.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old actor was on SiriusXM\u2019s <em>The Morning Mash Up<\/em> on Friday (March 20) when he said the \u201cnasty side\u201d of social media has made him pull back from the public eye.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I removed myself from online, but I\u2019m still a curious human being that wants to go on and, if I attend an event or if I go somewhere, you want to see how it was received. And it\u2019s not nice,\u201d <strong>Barry<\/strong> said in a clip that was shared via <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elitedaily.com\/entertainment\/barry-keoghan-hate-looks-outside\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.elitedaily.com\/entertainment\/barry-keoghan-hate-looks-outside&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elite Daily<\/a><\/em>. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of hate online. It\u2019s a lot of abuse of how I look.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2190701\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Oscar-nominated actor shared that the hatred has made him \u201cshy away\u201d and \u201cnot want to attend places, not want to go outside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I say this being absolute pure and honest to you. It\u2019s becoming a problem,\u201d he admitted. \u201cSo yeah, I don\u2019t have to hide away because I am hiding away. I don\u2019t have to go to places because I actually don\u2019t go to places because of these things. But when that starts leaking into your art, it becomes a problem because then you don\u2019t even want to be on screen anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Compounding the issue is that <strong>Barry<\/strong> feels upset that his son, <strong>Brando<\/strong>, 3, will have to read it when he\u2019s older.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is disappointing for the fans, but it\u2019s also disappointing that my little boy has to read all of this stuff when he gets older,\u201d <strong>Barry<\/strong> shared.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Barry Keoghan on Navigating His Public Spotlight\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nS9wYdDvxyA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/03\/13\/barry-keoghan-reveals-correct-way-to-pronounce-his-last-name\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he set the record straight on how to accurately pronounce his name<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/03\/20\/barry-keoghan-says-online-bullying-over-his-looks-is-making-him-reconsider-being-on-screen-i-am-hiding-away\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Keoghan is sharing how online hate has impacted him. The 33-year-old actor was on SiriusXM\u2019s The Morning Mash Up on Friday (March 20) when he said the \u201cnasty side\u201d of social media has made him pull back from the public eye. \u201cI think I removed myself from online, but I\u2019m still a curious human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-229821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}