“Saltburn”'s Barry Keoghan Jokes He Owns 10 of the Viral Jacob Elordi Bathwater Candles

“They’re all burning at my house right now," Keoghan joked to 'Variety'

Warning: Spoilers for Saltburn below.

Barry Keoghan still burns for Jacob Elordi!

During a chat with Variety Wednesday night in Los Angeles, Keoghan joked that he "already [has] 10 of" the viral bathwater candles inspired by a certain scene in the actors' provocative movie Saltburn, written and directed by Emerald Fennell.

“They’re all burning at my house right now," quipped the Oscar nominee, 31.

The scene in question sees Elordi's character Felix having a moment of solo intimacy in a bathtub, before Oliver (Keoghan) proceeds to drink the leftover bathwater flowing down the drain.

It has inspired several sellers on Etsy and Amazon to create candles based on the scene, with names like "Jacob Elordi's Bathwater" and some even just naming his character ("Felix's Bathwater"), in a variety of scents and materials.

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Fennell, 38, recently spoke with PEOPLE about the messages in her boundary-pushing film, including the bathtub moment. “What I'm saying with that scene,” she said, “is I think that scene is the sexiest thing I've ever seen in my life … And I'm saying that anyone else is safe to feel that.”

Lapping up bathwater marks only the beginning of Oliver’s alarming fixation on Felix and his wealthy family (played by Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver and Archie Madekwe).

With later Saltburn scenes involving late-night trysts and graveside self-gratification, Fennell said, “We wanted to present the feeling of that locust love: impossible, carnivorous, forever, impossible vampire love. I think that that is what we did and every single person making this film did the most unbelievable job.”

The film features plenty of other eyebrow-raising moments involving Oliver, an Oxford University student invited to the lavish estate of Felix’s family for the 2007 summer holiday. As the Oscar-winning writer-director behind Promising Young Woman told PEOPLE, the shock value of such a scene is inherent to its design.

“I'm interested in how it makes you feel. Did you feel something you've never felt before in a movie? And if that's the case, then the movie is effective, and it's worked, and that's what we wanted to do," Fennell said.

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The willingness of her leading man to lick a bathtub drain in close-up was also part of the intended effect, she added. Upon meeting the “incredible” Keoghan to discuss the role, Fennell remembered, “He sat down and he said, ‘I'm Oliver.’ "

“And I was like, ‘I know. Me too.’ Because we are. That's the thing: Oliver's my imaginary friend, he's me," she continued. "Then I meet Barry and suddenly Barry's Oliver too. And then we have this thing where — and it's the same with all the characters — you can hold hands and know. That's what's so exciting, is then you are always pushing each other to be more interesting, more complicated, more difficult, more sticky, more sexy, all of it, because you are in it with them.”

And if some audience members aren’t “in it with them,” as Fennell told PEOPLE, “fine, whatever.”

“Not everyone's going to love it,” she quipped. “But for the people that do, the people that connect to it, it is such a deep connection. It's such a profound feeling of being seen — that all of us felt making it, actually.”

Saltburn is now streaming on Prime Video.

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