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

The actor shares his son Brando with ex Alyson Sandro

Barry Keoghan's son has hit a major milestone.

While speaking with Josh Horowitz on his Happy Sad Confused podcast on Monday, Nov. 18, the Saltburn star, 32, gave a rare update on his life as a dad to son Brando, 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 "loves Cars," the 2006 Disney movie. "It's his thing," Keoghan added.

Earlier this month, Keoghan opened up about the criticism he's received online as a dad on The Louis Theroux Podcast. While he previously loved to share his baby boy online, he decided to stop when his life became more public and accusations about his parenting began.

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"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.

He continued, “People love to use my son as ammunition or whatever, and it kind of leads me to stop [posting him.] The more attention I’ve gotten lately and the more in the public I’ve become, the less I’ve posted about my child, because I don’t think it’s fair to put my child online."

"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."