The “Saltburn” star rocked the ‘60s-era hairstyle the “Come Together” rockers were known for.

Barry Keoghan debuts his Ringo Starr mop top ahead of Beatles biopic

The "Saltburn" star rocked the '60s-era hairstyle the "Come Together" rockers were known for.

By Raechal Shewfelt

Raechal Shewfelt

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Barry Keoghan, pictured in May 2025, will play Ringo Starr. Credit:

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Barry Keoghan has gone full Beatles.

The *Saltburn *actor, who will portray drummer Ringo Starr in director Sam Mendes' highly anticipated four-film project on the Fab Four, has debuted his mop-top hairstyle.

Keoghan will star in the movie taken from the perspective of Starr, one of two band members — the other being Paul McCartney — still living. Paul Mescal will play McCartney.**

Ringo Starr in 1966; Barry Keoghan rocks his new look on Jan. 28 in London.

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Actors Harris Dickinson and Joseph Quinn will play the late John Lennon, who was murdered in December 1980, and George Harrison, who died of cancer in November 2001, respectively.

The project that Mendes has teased as a "four-film cinematic event" that will collectively tell "the story of the greatest band in history" is scheduled to arrive in theaters, all at once, in April 2028. The project was announced at ComicCon 2025.**

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Keoghan revealed in July that he was working on screen tests for the movie. He told BBC's *Radio 1 Breakfast* show that he was more than happy with the way he looked.

"It's great. I look amazing," Keoghan told Quinn. "I'm not even messing — I look amazing. I look more Ringo than Ringo looks Ringo."**

No big deal or anything, but Keoghan had noted a couple of months earlier during an appearance on *Jimmy Kimmel Live* that, well, he had some help: an up-close look at the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.

"I met him at his house, and he played the drums for me," Keoghan said then. "He asked me to play, but I wasn't playing the drums for Ringo."

Understandable. But at least Keoghan already knew that Starr approved of his casting.

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"When I was talking to him, I couldn't look at him," Keoghan added. "I was nervous, like right now. But he's like, 'You can look at me.'"

And Keoghan had been practicing his playing for a while by then.

"We've been in full camp for like 16 or 17 weeks now," he said at Fastnet Film Festival near Cork, Ireland, according to the U.K.'s* The Sun* in May 2025. "It's just an absolute joy. The camp is like boot camp, and it's a place where you have time, and you try things. It's a place of failing, a place of learning and trying. That's the process I'm in now. It's a playground for me."

He also said he had blisters on his hands.**

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