5 Most Shocking Moments in 'Saltburn' Movie, Plus How They're Written in the Script (Spoilers!)

Jacob Elordi is opening up about the infamous bathtub scene in Saltburn that has had a lot of people talking.

Saltburn.Keoghan’s character becomes enamoured with Elordi’s popular boy Felix Catton while they are studying at Oxford University. The two bond and Felix invites Oliver to stay at his family’s ancestral home, Saltburn, over the summer.Though Keoghan has been frequently praised for his performance, Elordi has now revealed that someone else was originally eyed up for his part.Elordi recalls in an interview with Vogue UK asking Keoghan “what drew” him to the film, the latter replied: “When I met Emerald, she told me that she had you kind of down to do it. So, Emerald, yourself and the script… what about you?” [via The Independent].Elordi then said: “Definitely yeah, it was Emerald,” and added, with laughter: “Then she said she wanted Timothée Chalamet for it.

“Murder on the Dancefloor” — a disco delight by British singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor — was released in 2001, it became a bit hit in the UK. But the track from her debut album, “Read My Lips,” failed to slay the States.Twenty-three years and one full-frontal nude dancing scene later, all that has changed because of “Saltburn.”The euphoric victory boogie by Barry Keoghan’s coked-up character Oliver at the end of the buzzy black comedy psychological thriller is set to the bass-bumping groove of “Murder on the Dancefloor.”And after “Saltburn” went from its limited theatrical release in November to its streaming debut on Amazon Prime Video on Dec.

Thania Garcia SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot points, including the ending for “Saltburn.” Set in the United Kingdom in 2006, Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn,” starring Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan, boasts a mishmash of indie sleaze and timeless radio hits in its nostalgia-inducing soundtrack, which includes Sophie Ellis-Bextor‘s “Murder on the Dancefloor,” MGMT’s “Time to Pretend” and even Flo Rida’s “Low.” In the past week (the film got its streaming release by Amazon Prime Video on Dec. 22), “Murder” and many of the now 20-year-old singles from the soundtrack have enjoyed major streaming, listening and viewership boosts — reminiscent of the “Stranger Things” and TikTok-driven success of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill.” Elordi plays the suave and aristocratic Felix, an Oxford University student who becomes the center of attention for Keoghan’s character Oliver. When Felix invites Oliver to spend the summer at his family’s estate, Saltburn, things slowly take a dark turn and Oliver becomes obsessed with overtaking the family’s fortune.

Saltburn, in which his character has sex with a grave, was not originally part of the script.Emerald Fennell’s black comedy has become a social media sensation since its release on Amazon Prime Video last month, with a number of its more shocking scenes – including the infamous bathtub moment and “vampire sex” – emerging as hot topics for viewers. However, it’s the unsettling grave sequence that has really got fans talking.The film stars Keoghan as Oliver Quick, a middle-class Oxford student who struggles to fit in with his wealthy peers on campus, until striking up a friendship with Jacob Elordi’s charming aristocrat Felix Catton.Oliver is eventually invited by Felix to spend the summer at his family home, called Saltburn – a large mansion in the British countryside.The twist at the end of the film reveals that Oliver actually killed Felix, leading to the chilling moment where he penetrates the mud of his freshly dug grave.“On paper, he wasn’t written to do that,” Keoghan revealed to Variety.

Margot Robbie has revealed that Saltburn‘s infamous bathtub scene “didn’t feel that shocking” to her when she read the script.The Barbie star was one of the producers on Emerald Fennell’s divisive black comedy, which was recently released on Amazon Prime Video. Robbie’s production company LuckyChap Entertainment was also behind Fennell’s last film, 2020’s Promising Young Woman.The scene in question sees Barry Keoghan’s disturbingly lustful Oliver Quick slurp water from a bath drain, just minutes after Jacob Elordi’s handsome aristocrat Felix Catton has finished pleasuring himself in the same tub.Speaking to Variety about the scene, Robbie said: “It didn’t feel that shocking in the script, because Emerald immerses you into a world so quickly.

Saltburn.Emerald Fennell’s class satire has become a social media sensation since its release on Amazon Prime Video last month, with viewers finding themselves entranced by the lavish lifestyles of the absurdly rich characters in the film.It stars Barry Keoghan as Oliver Quick, a middle-class interloper who poses as a scholarship student from a working-class background in order to strike up a friendship with Jacob Elordi’s wealthy aristocrat Felix Catton at Oxford University.Oliver is eventually invited by Felix to spend the summer at his family home, called Saltburn – a large mansion in the British countryside.At the end of the film, Oliver dances naked around the Saltburn mansion to Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’, moving through the property’s various grand rooms and hallways.Wealthy TikTok users have since been recreating Keoghan’s dance on the social media platform, using it as an opportunity to show off own lavish homes.However, many social media users have mocked those recreating the dance for “missing the point” of Saltburn, which is to satirise the absurdity of the lives of the upper classes.One person wrote: “It’s so funny to me that rich people are using Saltburn to show off, totally missing the point of the film.”“Imagine flexing this after watching that film…did you actually watch the film?” added another.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor‘s pop classic ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ is set to re-enter the UK Top 40 singles chart this week as its Saltburn-inspired renaissance continues.To close Emerald Fennell’s new film, Barry Keoghan’s character Oliver Quick dances through a country mansion in the nude to a soundtrack of the 2001 pop hit.Since then, it’s gained legions of new Gen Z fans on TikTok, with over 38.5million views of its hashtag and the song being included in a quarter of a million videos. Ellis-Bextor herself also joined the trend, recreating Keoghan’s dance in a TikTok video which you can see below.After this success, Official Charts are reporting that the track is now set to re-enter the Top 40 this week.

Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi‘s new movie Saltburn has become a viral hit, but we recently learned that it almost starred another A-list actor!

The movie Saltburn has been shocking audiences around the world with some of its raunchy content and the film’s producer Margot Robbie is sharing her thoughts on those scenes.

Saltburn starring Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan has inspired a cocktail that’s gone viral on TikTok.In the film directed by Emerald Fennell, university student Oliver Quick (Keoghan) becomes obsessed with his wealthy classmate Felix Catton (Elordi), who invites him to spend the summer at his family’s lavish Saltburn estate.During one now-infamous scene, Quick watches Elordi’s character masturbate in the bathtub, before he goes onto lick up the remains of water he’s ejaculated in.Elordi’s bath water has now become a hot source of inspiration, leading to the creation of a new cocktail by TikTok user Mr.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has hailed the resurgence of her hit ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ after it featured in Saltburn.In the movie, actor Barry Keoghan is seen dancing in the nude to her 2001 single in a memorable final scene.As a result, the track has now enjoyed a resurgence and entered Spotify‘s global chart for the first time after it clocked up over 1.43million streams.Reacting to the news, Ellis-Bextor wrote on X: “Wow.. thank you for all the Murder love. Happy new year! Xx.”Wow..

Saltburn.The actor plays university student Oliver Quick in Emerald Fennell’s black comedy drama, alongside Jacob Elordi as his classmate Felix Catton.At the end of the film, it’s revealed that Oliver orchestrated various deaths within the Catton family after spending his summer at Saltburn – making him the sole inheritor of the entire estate.In celebration of his success, Oliver strips naked and dances through the Saltburn estate to ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’ by Sophie Ellis-Bextor.Speaking about filming the scene to Entertainment Weekly, Keoghan said he was initially hesitant to bare all. “The initial thing was about me having no clothes on.

Ayo Edebiri is sharing her thoughts to the wild journey that is Saltburn!

Sophie Ellis-Bextor has reacted to the scene in Saltburn which depicts Barry Keoghan dancing in the nude to her song ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’.Irish actor Keoghan stars in Emerald Fennell‘s dark comedy-thriller about Oxford student Oliver Quick who become immersed in the aristocratic family of Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi).Among various shocking moments in the film, the memorable final scene finds Oliver dancing throughout the Saltburn estate mansion in the nude to Ellis-Bextor’s 2001 hit.The singer has since shared her reaction to the full-frontal scene, telling People this month that while she knew what would occur, she still “wasn’t quite prepared for the visual”.“Seeing it written down as a premise is different,” she said. “I mean, Barry really went for it.

Warning: Spoilers below.Barry bared it all. Irish actor Barry Keoghan, 31, did not use a body double while going nude in the new movie “Saltburn,” (now streaming on Prime Video). Rather, the nudity was all him.

As Elspeth Catton, Saltburn’s bohemian but bloodless matriarch, Rosamund Pike strikes an unnervingly accurate note as the crushingly careless mother of Jacob Elordi’s character Felix. When Felix brings home Oliver (Barry Keoghan), his apparently lame duck of a new friend from Oxford University, Elspeth is delighted to add a new tragic case to her collection of playthings. Already among them is Carey Mulligan’s lost soul character, Poor Dear Pamela — an old friend on the run from a messy breakup with a Russian oligarch. Here, Pike pays tribute to the world created by writer-director Emerald Fennell, and its unpredictable outcome.

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details on Saltburn‘s ending.

Charli XCX has written about her love of the “absolutely fabulous” screenplay for this year’s Saltburn, a film she sees as a “homage to the gay gothic genre”. The film’s script was written by its director Emerald Fennell, who had previously made Promising Young Woman.

Rosamund Pike is stepping out to promote her hit new movie Saltburn!