"Lots of people get lost in Saltburn."
— Duncan
Saltburn is a 2023 black comedy psychological thriller film written and directed by Emerald Fennell; it is Fennell's second film following 2020's Promising Young Woman.
It's 2006, and Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) is a working-class student out of place at Oxford except for his Only Friend, Michael Gavey (Ewan Mitchell). When the wealthy and popular Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi) suggests that Oliver come to his family estate, Saltburn, for the summer, he jumps at the opportunity. However, when he meets Felix's parents, Elspeth (Rosamund Pike) and Sir James (Richard E. Grant), Oliver enters a mysterious and treacherous world of privilege and obsession.
The supporting cast includes Archie Madekwe, Alison Oliver, Carey Mulligan and Paul Rhys.
The film premiered at Telluride Film Festival on August 31, 2023, and was released in the UK on November 16. It then had a limited theatrical release in the US on November 24 before opening wide on December 1.
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Saltburn contains examples of:
- 20 Minutes into the Past: Released in 2023, most of the story is set in the year 2006-2007. This is apparently so that the Time Skip section doesn't take place in the future.
- All There in the Script: In the film, it's not clear if Duncan is still around at Saltburn when Oliver kills the now-disabled Elspeth and what (if any) repercussions there will be. The script makes it clear that Duncan is still there, hovering over Oliver, and suggests that Oliver will at least try to get rid of him, whether through sinister means or otherwise.
- Ambiguously Bi:
- Oliver is somewhere between this and Ambiguously Gay. He's madly besotted with Felix and gets close to an Almost Kiss during their confrontation (though explicitly denies being in love with him), he gives Farleigh a handjob, and he kisses and goes down on Venetia, but was likely doing so just to get closer to the various Cattons in pursuit of Saltburn.
- Felix is a more ambiguous case. He's fixated on Oliver for a while and makes a point of telling Elspeth that Oliver is handsome. He also kisses Oliver on the cheek at one point. When he learns that Oliver hooked up with Venetia, he gets very angry, and it's not clear whether this is a case of My Sister Is Off-Limits or jealousy.
- Ambiguous Situation: Just how much did Oliver genuinely care about the Cattons? A lot of his actions were definitely deceptive, but sometimes (such as with Felix's grave) he shows genuine emotion in ways that don't seem to benefit his plans. Did he ever consider Felix an actual friend, or more? What about Venetia or Elspeth? At the end, he claims to have always hated all of them, but of course, he's not exactly a reliable source.
- Artistic License: "Saltburn" is an odd choice of name for a stately home, as Saltburn-by-the-Sea, its namesake, is a quaint Northern seaside town.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Oliver gets away with his role in destroying the entire Catton family and taking their estate for his own.
- Bath Suicide: Venetia dies after slitting her wrists in the bathtub with two razor blades that had been left by Oliver. The last image of her in the film is of her body laying in the bathtub, with its water turned red.
- Batman Gambit: It turns out that Oliver was using a string of them to worm his way into the Cattons' good graces and pick them off one by one. A few examples include putting a nail in Felix's bike tire to engineer their Meet Cute and placing razor blades within sight of the traumatized and bathing Venetia to facilitate her Bath Suicide.
- The Beautiful Elite: The Catton family consists of the beautiful Lady Elspeth and her equally beautiful children, Felix and Venetia. Head of the family, Sir James Catton, whilst not quite beautiful, is certainly dashing in his own way, and as a baronet, he owns a vast inherited country house, featuring multiple rooms filled with priceless furniture and artworks as well as a fleet of staff. The family live a glamorously louche existence, culminating in a birthday party thrown for Oliver of such megalomaniacal proportions that it wouldn't look out a lot of place on the party pages of society bible, Tatler.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: Oliver and Farleigh have a mutual dislike for one another from the very beginning. When Oliver offers his help to Farleigh, there is obvious sexual tension between them, though Farleigh immediately responds with a public Stealth Insult. Later, Oliver gives Farleigh a handjob on the condition that he "behave," and Farleigh accepts. However, this is also a part of Oliver's scheme to discredit Farleigh.
- Big Fancy House: Saltburn is an enormous English estate with several bedrooms, sitting rooms, and libraries, an adjacent lake, and a massive hedge maze.
- Bigger Is Better in Bed: Oliver is implied to have an enormous penis; when the family watches him remove his shorts to join them in nude sunbathing, everyone is surprised and impressed. However, we do actually get a few glimpses at Oliver's penis in the end, and it's pretty normal.
- Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The young women that surround Felix. His sister Venetia (who Oliver hooks up with) is blonde, his ex-girlfriend Annabel (who Oliver also hooks up with) is a redhead, and his new girlfriend India is brunette.
- Blood Is Squicker in Water: We don't see Venetia kill herself in the bathtub. At most, we see her body afterwards, with the fact that the water in the tub is now fully red being the main indicator as to what's happened.
- Blue Blood: The honorific "Sir", and the fact that his title is hereditary, denotes that Felix and Venetia's father James is a baronet. His title written in full would be "Sir James Catton, Baronet". Whilst baronetcies are hereditary, typically passing in the male line, they are not peers, having never been conferred noble status. Socially, however, baronets are regarded as part of the British aristocracy. Elspeth, James' wife, would use the title "Lady", and the baronetcy and associated estate would pass to Felix upon his father's death.
- Bourgeois Bohemian:
- Elspeth claims that she was a lesbian for some time and has no problems with homosexuality. She is also a former model and claims to have hung out with a variety of Britpop bands, to the point that people thought Pulp's "Common People" was about her.
- Her son Felix is not nearly the class-focused snob as his other blue-blooded friends, defending Oliver for being a "scholarship kid." However, deconstructed by Felix, who also fetishizes Oliver's apparent poverty and picks him back up after dropping him after Oliver's father dies or, at least, after Oliver says his father died.
- Brainless Beauty: Elspeth is a beautiful woman who once worked as a model and partied with rock stars. She's also easily manipulated and admits that she never wanted to learn anything.
- Cast Full of Rich People: Everyone, excluding presumably Duncan (the butler) and Oliver himself, is from a wealthy, aristocratic background.
- Chekhov's Party: Early in his stay, Felix and Elspeth enthusiastically tell Oliver that they'll throw a party for his birthday near the end of the summer. This is what stops Felix from telling his family about Oliver's true nature, and where Oliver kills Felix.
- Condescending Compassion: Most of the kindness the Cattons bestow upon their favored targets is laced with this, as Oliver and Pamela can attest.
- Credits Gag: Carey Mulligan is credited in the end credits as "Poor Dear Pamela", as that's what Elspeth calls her.
- Creepy Souvenir: After killing the entire Catton family, Oliver takes their memorial stones from the river and puts them in the living room, apparently just to gloat.
- Dance Party Ending: A one-person example. Oliver, having killed off the Cattons and inherited Saltburn, joyously dances through the mansion stark naked to Sophie Ellis-Bextor's "Murder on the Dance Floor".
- Downer Ending: The entire Catton family is dead, most of them due to Oliver's machinations, and Oliver inherits all of Saltburn. Regardless of whose side the viewer is on, Oliver is also now alone once again thanks to his own doing.
- Driven to Suicide:
- Pamela kills herself offscreen not long after being cast out of Saltburn.
- Venetia slashes her wrists offscreen (with razors thoughtfully provided by Oliver) after her brother's death; Oliver later states that she did so because she couldn't live without Felix.
- While Sir James' cause of death is left ambiguous, Elspeth remarks that she doesn't know "what took him so long" after Felix's death.
- Establishing Character Moment: The Cattons collectively get one in their first scene, when we see them braying with laughter at the teen sex comedy Superbad and gossiping shamelessly. These might be landed gentry, but they're not genteel.
- Fan Disservice:
- The image of Oliver cavorting naked through the now-deserted Saltburn. Barry Keoghan is sexy and in very good shape, but it's hard to be titillated after knowing he killed the entire Catton family and got away with it.
- Before this, we get such lovely sexual scenes as Venetia being eaten out while covered in her own period blood and Oliver drinking Felix's semen-filled bath water.
- Fauxshadowing:
- Characters separately imply that Oliver will regret his "friendship" with Felix. Michael Garvey explicitly tells him that Felix will get bored of him, implying that Felix will do something bad to Oliver, and Venetia tells him that Felix likes his new "toys" and doesn't want to share them. The film seems to be building towards a confrontation between the two that will end with Felix impulsively rejecting Oliver for superficial reasons, but in fact, Felix is not only completely justified in his reasoning for rejecting Oliver's love confession but is pretty clearly the innocent one in the situation. Oliver has engineered the entire friendship the two of them share, and manipulated Felix and his family for months.
- Felix tells Oliver that Duncan will go through his stuff and report to Elspeth. Oliver is clearly unnerved, and it seems to be suggesting that either Elspeth or Duncan are extremely sinister characters, or that one or both will find something Oliver doesn't want them to. This never happens, and Elspeth turns out to be a surprisingly sympathetic character.
- For much of the film, it's implied that Oliver is being slowly corrupted by the decadence of the titular estate, as he becomes increasingly lecherous and ruthless as the movie progresses. The ending reveals he was a Manipulative Bastard from the beginning, before he even met Felix.
- Fish out of Water: Oliver has no idea how to live among the aristocracy, and he's constantly gaffing. He arrives at Saltburn early and on his own, not realizing that the family had sent a car for him, he doesn't have black tie clothing for the formal dinners, and he doesn't understand how breakfast works or who he's supposed to talk to first at a dinner party.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: When we see Oliver's childhood house, it's a well-maintained two-storey home in a nice-looking neighborhood rather than the run-down rattrap he implied to Felix. As soon as Felix knocks on the door, we discover that Oliver was lying about growing up in wretched poverty.
- Foreshadowing:
- Felix shows Oliver his family's ritual of honoring deceased relatives by writing their name on a stone and throwing it into the river. Oliver decides to try it using a stone with his father's name, but his stone misses the water completely — possibly because, as is later revealed, his father isn't actually dead.
- When Percy Shelley's doppelgänger is being discussed over breakfast, a person with Felix's clothes and build passes by the window. We're then told that Shelley died shortly after his doppelgänger was seen.
- Oliver performs oral sex on Venetia while she's on her period, saying that he doesn't mind blood. Her last scene is of her dead body in a bathtub full of her own blood — also Oliver's handiwork.
- The dish Farleigh had reportedly stolen was a piece whose name Farleigh hadn't recognized earlier in the movie when Oliver mentioned it, surprising Sir James with his knowledge. The mention of the name in the e-mail is the first hint that Farleigh wasn't the sender.
- Felix dresses up as an angel for Oliver's birthday party. He dies that very night.
- Fourth Wall Psych: The film intercuts between the events of the plot and a post-Time Skip Oliver recounting his perspective on them. As he looks and speaks directly to the camera, it appears as if he's addressing the audience. However, it's revealed that he's actually in the same room as a comatose Elspeth, who he's really been speaking to.
- Frame-Up: Twice.
- Oliver gives Farleigh a handjob in his bed to steal his phone and frame him for apparently stealing dishes from Sir James, which gets him temporarily exiled.
- Oliver plants drugs in Farleigh's room in order to imply that Felix's death was his fault, resulting in him being permanently banished from Saltburn.
- Gambit Roulette: Oliver's plan apparently included simply waiting fifteen years for James to die on his own, hoping that there would have been no one else significant coming into Elspeth's life able to hinder his plans, and that she would have kept a fond memory of a boy she met for merely six months over a decade ago.
- Freudian Excuse: At one point early in the film, Oliver gets upset when Felix makes a mess in the dorm room. Later, when telling Felix about his mother, Oliver talks about how she left the house a mess due to her addiction and negligence, suggesting this trope. However, we later learn that Oliver came from a comfortable, stable home and completely lied about his background, meaning he deliberately invoked this trope to make Felix and his family feel sorry for him.
- Gory Discretion Shot: Several character deaths that we understand to have been unpleasant (Felix from being poisoned, Venetia from suicide) are mostly kept offscreen, with the characters' bodies afterwards being shown briefly or implied. This contrasts with the averted case of Oliver killing Elspeth; him ripping her ventilator out of her throat and watching her convulse and asphyxiate is all shown onscreen.
- Grim Up North: Oliver comes from Liverpool, and is the orphaned child of abusive addicts. It's repeatedly Played for Laughs in that Elspeth and Pamela have no idea where Liverpool is, and everyone at Saltburn finds it pretty exotic. This seems to have been what Oliver was counting on, since while he is from Liverpool, he comes from a normal, middle-class, and loving family.
- Heat Wave: The summer of 2007 is portrayed (inaccurately) as being this. While there was a heatwave in the summer of 2007 elsewhere in Europe, large parts of the UK were actually flooded throughout June and July 2007.
- Hedge Maze: The Saltburn estate has a huge, labyrinthine maze, with a smaller version in the house itself. It's where Felix has his last conversation with Oliver, and later dies.
- Hidden Disdain Reveal: In the end, Oliver claims he hated Felix and the Cattons the whole time. Whether this is fully truthful is ambiguous.
- How We Got Here: The film opens on Oliver in a bright room recalling his feelings about Felix, and the film cuts back and forth between the chronological events of the plot and his commentary on them, indicating both through him speaking in past tense and his changed appearance (looking more mature and well-groomed) that this is him in the future after the plot's events have taken place. Once that scene becomes the present of the film, it's revealed that he is telling all of this to a mortally ill and bedridden Elspeth.
- Idle Rich: The Cattons spend their days idling around their mansion, sunbathing, watching movies, hosting parties, and gossiping. The expense of maintaining Saltburn with a full staff would be incredible, but Sir James seems to have no career.
- Impoverished Patrician:
- Farleigh's mother, Sir James's sister, is said to be living in squalor a repeatedly must beg for financial aid from Sir James. She's apparently terrible with money.
- Pamela seems to belong to the upper crust but can only afford a tiny studio apartment if left to her own devices.
- Ivy League for Everyone: The UK-specific equivalent:
- Just Ignore It: The Cattons try to have a normal lunch even though Felix, their beloved son, had died literally hours earlier. Sir James and Elspeth both make frantic small talk as the shell-shocked children try to hold in their tears, and when Farleigh asks to be excused, unable to take it anymore and calling everyone out for acting as if nothing's happened, Sir James explodes at him and orders him to sit back down and continue eating.Sir James: You're not the only person here with feelings. None of us wants your bloody American feelings.
- Kick the Dog:
- After insisting that he's going to be Oliver's only friend, Michael screams at Oliver to give him a sum to compute, establishing him as a friend that no one would want.
- The first thing Farleigh does in the film is sarcastically compliment Oliver's jacket.
- Lecture as Exposition: Oliver recites Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" in his tutorial, a poem about obsession and possession taken to murderous extremes.
- Male Frontal Nudity: Oliver's nards are seen briefly as he cavorts through the empty mansion at the end.
- Meet Cute: A platonic version — Oliver first runs into Felix when he sees that his bike has gotten a flat on the side of the road, and offers his own bike so Felix can get to class. As the ending reveals, Oliver actually orchestrated their meeting by deliberately puncturing the tire ahead of time.
- Mythical Motifs: Vampires, to the point that the creators consider it a vampire movie even without any supernatural elements. The movie's aesthetics is heavily influenced by vampire movies and their gothic atmosphere. Oliver calls himself a vampire when eating out Venetia during her period, there is a scene of his mouth drenched in blood in the bath later, and one can see it as a story of Oliver sucking the Cattons dry over the course of the years like a vampire feeding on them, as well as being a parasitic being in their lives.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The name of the titular estate combines two different painful sensations.
- No Bisexuals: Played for Laughs with Elspeth (who is now married to Sir James, a man), who blurts out that she "was a lesbian at one stage" but gave it up because women were too wet for her liking.
- Oh, Crap!: The only time Oliver sincerely panics is when he realizes that Felix's birthday surprise is a trip to his (living, sober, and affectionate) parents' house.
- Once More, with Clarity: After the reveal of Oliver's true nature, we flash back to see him orchestrate just about every part of the plot, including sabotaging Felix's bicycle, hiding money in his wallet when he claims to be short for paying for drinks, and leaving razor blades by Venetia in the bath.
- The Oner: Oliver's nude dance throughout the mansion at the end occurs in a single shot.
- Outliving One's Offspring: This happens to Elspeth and James, twice, and in quick succession. Despite their vapid ways, it's clear that they're genuinely devastated by this.
- The Place: The film is primarily set at Saltburn, the Cattons' sprawling family estate.
- Prince and Pauper: An enforced example that doesn't include overt resemblance. Oliver is a pauper, from an extremely lower-class and abusive background, while the wealthy, popular aristocrat Felix is (almost literally) a prince. Oliver reveals himself to have been lying about his background to ingratiate himself with Felix, though he is still from a poorer background. When Felix finds out, he kills him and then goes to extreme lengths to try and stay at Saltburn, eventually essentially replacing him as the heir.
- Properly Paranoid: Pamela worries constantly about her breakup with a ruthless Russian oligarch whose enemies tend to suffer mysterious accidents. Only a month or two after Saltburn, Pamela has died.
- Red Herring:
- Felix tells Oliver that Duncan (likely with Elspeth's knowledge or approval) goes through the bags of people at Saltburn, implying that he and/or Elspeth may be very sinister, or that they might find something they don't want (or Oliver doesn't, anyway) in Oliver's bags. None of this happens, and their voyeurism doesn't come back.
- This also applies to the framing device, of Oliver speaking to someone off-camera and waxing nostalgically about his relationship with Felix. This suggests some sort of tragic love story, perhaps being related to an interviewer, but it eventually turns out he was telling all of this to a comatose Elspeth, whom he's about to murder.
- Red Is Violent: Duncan draws the curtains to the dining room so that the family taking their lunch within doesn't have to see Felix's dead body being carted off by the coroner just outside. Thus, the family's efforts to ignore the situation at hand are bathed in a dark shade of crimson for the rest of the scene. Just to hammer things home, a dazed Venetia empties a bottle of red wine into an overflowing glass, staining the tablecloth red, as well.
- The Reveal:
- Midway through the film, it's revealed that Oliver has been lying about his background. He's not the traumatized only child of two drug addicts but part of a very normal, middle-class family.
- At the end of the film, it's revealed that Oliver has been manipulating virtually everything that's been going on, from Felix getting a flat tire to the many unfortunate accidents that befall the Cattons.
- Rewatch Bonus: When Oliver is at Oxford he tells a professor he finished the books on the summer reading list, only to be caught off guard when the professor clarifies that the list was not designed to be completed, as it featured books far too long and heady to be read in one summer. This characterizes Oliver as out of his depth in the world of academia but otherwise earnest for committing to an impossible task; looking back after the rest of the film, it's clear Oliver was lying about reading all of the books, in the same way he lies about his other accomplishments and life stories.
- Rich Bitch: Lady Daphne. At the dinner party, she pointedly insists that follow dinner convention and speak to her first. She openly hates her husband, doesn't understand why Oliver thinks it's "nice" that she has children, and tells him that the purpose of school is that she doesn't have to see them or deal with them. When Oliver tries to start a new topic, she's already turned to another person and loudly asks him to "save" her from talking to Oliver.
- School of No Studying: There's little to no mention of Oliver, Felix, or Farleigh studying even though they're at Oxford.
- Self-Poisoning Gambit: Oliver poisons his own bottle and exchanges it with Felix's after confronting him in the maze, making himself vomit to keep from killing himself.
- Shout-Out:
- In one scene, Felix, Farleigh and Venetia all read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows; Felix wonders aloud if Harry, Ron and Hermione have threesomes, and Farleigh answers in the affirmative, saying that "they’re missing out on an opportunity if they’re not."
- In another scene, Venetia tells Oliver that Sir James has nicknamed him Spider-Man, "because you're always just skulking around, weaving your spider-y, Oliver-y web."
- The film's whole premise calls to mind The Smiths' song "This Charming Man", complete with class differences and implicitly queer romance. Oliver and Felix's Meet Cute even matches the song's first linenote .
- Silence Is Golden: The sequence of Venetia's suicide and funeral plays out with absolutely no sound.
- Stealth Insult: Farleigh summons Oliver to karaoke Pet Shop Boys' "Rent" in front of a whole party. The lyrics of the song are from the point of view of a sycophantic gold digger, which turn Oliver's performance into an inadvertent confession. However, once Oliver realizes this, he flips it on Farleigh by telling him to finish the song, saying, "It's your song as well"; Farleigh, for one, is happy to oblige.
- Stiff Upper Lip: Deconstructed. The Cattons are a fairly repressed bunch, very rarely allowing themselves to feel things deeply. After Felix is found dead, they try to muddle on through the day without acknowledging the gravity of the situation. The fact that they don't do a very good job of it at all only highlights the futility of such an attitude. Even their butler gets in on this, clearly struggling to maintain his usual icy demeanor despite he himself being rattled by what's happened.
- Systematic Villain Takedown: Somewhat of an inversion — the characters that all take offence to Oliver or try to get rid of him are gradually taken out, though they are a variety of moral alignments. First, Oliver frames Farleigh for stealing and gets him thrown out of Saltburn; then he poisons Felix to death after Felix finds out he lied about his backstory; then, because he wasn't able to take Farleigh out permanently with the jewellery theft, he plants drugs in his room and blames him for Felix's death; then he leaves Venetia alone with a razor in deep grief, apparently knowing she'll slit her wrists; Sir James dies without any (apparent) intervention from Oliver, but he exiled Oliver from Saltburn; then Oliver suffocates Elspeth and presumably poisoned her in the first place to make her dependent on him.
- Ten Little Murder Victims: Not a straight example, but its portrayal of a deadly country house owes a lot to this subgenre. Everybody but Oliver and Duncan die. Pamela dies by suicide, Oliver murders Felix and Elspeth and manipulates Venetia into committing suicide, and frames Farleigh for a part in Felix's death to get him exiled, and then Sir James dies from natural causes. Flashbacks at the end depict exactly how each happens.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave:
- Elspeth has grown bored of Pamela and passive-aggressively encourages her to leave. Shortly thereafter, she has her staff discreetly kick her out, saying that she can only drop so many hints.
- Oliver refuses Sir James' request that he leave Saltburn so that Elspeth can mourn properly, but Oliver refuses, claiming it wouldn't be in her best interest. Ultimately, Sir James bribes him to leave.
- Thousand-Yard Stare: Several members of the Cattons are seen with one in the wake of Felix and Venetia's deaths.
- Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: A Central Theme.
- Profess Ware is still smitten with the memory of Farleigh's mother, the sister of Sir James. He also still has an inferiority complex about it, admitting that he admired her from a distance and asking Farleigh not to mention him to her.
- Oliver denies being in love with Felix but there are a lot of suggestions that he was, not least him having sex with Felix's freshly-dug grave. When he meets Elspeth again after a decade, he admits to not having moved on from Felix or Oxford.
- Wham Line:
- A less extreme one, but when we finally meet Oliver's mother, she casually says, "Your father's in the garden," after Oliver told Felix his father died a year ago.
- After Oliver's encounter with Venetia in the bathtub after Felix's death, the film cuts to him post-Time Skip, who reveals what became of her shortly before we see for ourselves.Oliver: It broke her completely. She said it herself. She couldn't live without him.
- Near the end of Oliver's movie-long explanation of his relationship with Felix, one line (followed by the second example of Wham Shot below) reveals who exactly he's been talking to this entire time:Oliver: I can honestly say that these last few months have been the happiest of my life. It's just such a shame you got so ill.
- Shortly after the above example, Oliver alludes to just how much of the film's events had been his own orchestrating before a Once More, with Clarity montage confirms it.Oliver: We got there in the end, didn't we? Somehow. Thank God. After all those terrible, terrible accidents. But...is there really ever such a thing as an accident, Elspeth? I don't know. Accidents are for people like you. For the rest of us, there's work. And unlike you, I actually know how to work.
- Wham Shot:
- After Oliver states that Venetia "couldn't live without" Felix after his death, the film cuts straight to Venetia laying motionless in the bathtub where Oliver left her, which is filled with her blood.
- The reveal that Oliver's movie-long commentary on the events of the film was actually him speaking to Elspeth, who's in the same room comatose and bedridden with illness.
- What Happened to the Mouse?:
- We have no idea what happened to Farleigh after he was banished from Saltburn, though he should consider himself lucky he didn't end up dead like everyone else.
- We also never learn what happens to Michael after Oliver ditches him to hang out with Felix.
- You Are What You Hate: Farleigh is the most classist character in the film, bullying Oliver relentlessly for being poor and living as a parasite at Saltburn. However, Farleigh is the most like Oliver of all the cast. As an Impoverished Patrician whose parents are bankrupt, he too lives at Saltburn at the expense of his wealthier family members. His American accent and African ancestry set him apart just as much as Oliver.
