The Saltburn actor attended the annual event in the south of France to promote his new film Bird. Barry Keoghan. Photo: Frazer Harrison Barry Keoghan wearing a bracelet with his mum's name engraved on it (Doug Peters/PA) Barry Keoghan paid tribute to his late mum at the Cannes Film Festival over the weekend.

The Saltburn actor attended the annual event in the south of France to promote his new film Bird , which had its world premiere at the international festival on Thursday. On Friday, the Dubliner wore a simple white t-shirt tucked into a pair of black pinstriped trousers, completing the look with a swanky watch and a pair of black sunglasses. But one accessory stood out from the rest – a silver bracelet with his mum’s name, Debbie, engraved on it.

He previously told Esquire how he randomly selected the bracelet when picking a costume for a movie he was working on. Barry Keoghan wearing a bracelet with his mum's name engraved on it (Doug Peters/PA) He said: “I said, ‘That’s my mother’s name. Debbie.

’ That’s crazy, isn’t it? That’s a sign. That is a fecking sign! That day alone is like..

. So I kept it. They were like, ‘Where’s the bracelet?’ I was like, ‘I’m keeping that’.

” Barry's mother died from a heroin overdose when he was 12 years old. The 31-year-old spoke about losing his mother on The Late Late Show back in 2018. “It was a new thing and people didn’t know the effects,” he told then-host Ryan Tubridy.

“The drugs hit the area .