When asked about now being “on a whole new stratosphere of fame,” Barry said: “It’s new for me, man. It’s quite a scary one as well, because I’m not used to this much attention. It’s overwhelming, if I’m quite honest.”
“It’s almost a different kind of life that you’ve got to be living now,” he went on. “I just want to make movies and fecking play parts and work with filmmakers, and not focus on this noise too much.”
Later in the interview, Barry also confessed that he tries not to read too much into the public’s reaction to his body when asked if he feels “objectified” by it.
Interestingly, he also said that he anticipated that the nude scene would create a stir, and he wouldn’t have taken the role in Saltburn if he wasn’t prepared for the response.