Why Barry Keoghan’s Stylist Ironed His Underwear for the Golden Globes

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At last night’s Golden Globes ceremony, Irish actor Barry Keoghan hit the carpet wearing a custom red-and-black-checked Louis Vuitton suit. The Johnny Rotten-inspired getup was befit with a cropped jacket and tapered pants, festooned with pearl strands and diamond brooches from Tiffany, and supplemented by the Saltburn star’s spiked-up skin fade.

But hidden beneath his ensemble was a decidedly un-punk accessory: a freshly ironed pair of briefs.

After the broadcast, Keoghan’s stylist Ilaria Urbinati shared a behind-the-scenes video of someone carefully pressing the actor’s gray Nice Laundry briefs on an ironing board—which turns out was a punchline to their ongoing inside joke.

“I always joke that I’m Barry’s stylist-slash-mommy,” says Urbinati, a longtime Hollywood stylist who also dressed James Marsden, Tyler James Williams, and Ramy Youssef last night. She became tight with Keoghan through her husband, Johnny Hunt, who is the actor’s boxing trainer. (There’s gotta be a boxers-versus-briefs pun here somewhere.) But recently, when the actor—who has a reputation for being a bit of a cheeky bugger—arrived at Urbinati’s home to get ready for a Vuitton event, he found himself in need of some caring assistance.

“He shows up and he’s like, ‘I don’t have any underwear. I don’t have any deodorant. I don’t have any socks,’” recounts Urbinati, laughing. “He ended up borrowing my husband's underwear, which he was not super excited about, so we kept busting his balls about it.” (For the record, Urbinati asked for Keoghan’s permission to share this anecdote: “Barry’s the best because he’s game. He doesn’t care.”)

When they linked back up for the Globes (where Keoghan had snagged a Best Actor nomination for his role in Saltburn, though the trophy ended up going to fellow Irishman Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer), Urbinati decided to keep the gag rolling: She brought some extra underwear to their fitting “just in case,” only to discover that the fresh-out-of-the-box pair was, in fact, quite rumpled.

“I was joking about how I’m his mommy and I have to bring him underwear and then I was like, OK, we’re gonna iron the underwear,” she says. An on-hand Vuitton staffer kindly volunteered to do the honors. All jokes aside, Urbinati admits that fresh-pressing a pair of wrinkled undies may offer some marginal utility: “Part of my neurotic-stylist-Virgo self was like, ‘They’re so wrinkled, is it gonna make the pants look bunchy?’”

He’s one of our most exciting actors—a combustible shape-shifter onscreen, a moon-howling dynamo off it. And he spent the last couple years achieving his Hollywood aspirations at an absurd clip. Now, Barry Keoghan is confronting a rather novel dilemma: deciding which dreams to manifest next.

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