Barry Keoghan Reveals His 2-Year-Old Son Brando Is Starting to Talk in Rare Parenting Update

Mar. 15, 2025

Barry Keoghan.Photo:Bryan Bedder/Getty

Bryan Bedder/Getty

Barry Keoghan’s son has hit a major milestone.

While speaking with Josh Horowitz on hisHappy Sad Confusedpodcast on Monday, Nov. 18, theSaltburnstar, 32, gave a rare update on his life as a dad to sonBrando, 2, whom he shares with ex Alyson Sandro.

“I have a lovely relationship with my little boy. I’m getting to see him grow, and it gives me such love and hope,” the proud dad began.

“He’s started to talk now,” Keoghan then shared. “He can back chat!” he joked.

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He continued, “But the puppy eyes, man. They look at you and you’re like, ‘Okay. Here’s chocolate. I’ll eat it with you.'”

The actor also said that Brando “lovesCars,” the 2006 Disney movie. “It’s his thing,” Keoghan added.

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Barry Keoghan and son Brando.Barry Keoghan/Instagram

Barry Keoghan/Instagram

“There’s a lot online. If I didn’t have tough skin or the strength, I wouldn’t be sitting here,” Keoghan explained. “Of course, it’s going to affect me being a father when I had no blueprint to take from. People just read that [as] laziness and go, ‘Oh, that’s no excuse to be an absent father.’”

“I’m not an absent father,” he urged.

“Because I reigned that in, people draw a narrative and go, ‘Absent father, s—, deadbeat dad,’ and more disgusting things I wouldn’t even repeat. Just the audacity of some people, man, it sickens me. It makes me furious.”

He added that “these people have no indication” of what he’s like as a dad, and “I ain’t going to feed them more material…they don’t deserve that.”

source: people.com