The hair of the canine isn’t any miracle treatment. Colin Farrell is aware of this from expertise.
The Irish actor discovered the bounds of the folks treatment many moons in the past whereas filming “Minority Report,” the Steven Spielberg-directed tech noir movie primarily based on Philip Okay. Dick’s science fiction novella of the identical identify.
That fateful day on set, as Farrell advised it Tuesday on “The Late Present With Stephen Colbert,” was maybe much more disturbing than the surveillance-state setting whereby the 2002 movie unfolds.
It began on the eve of Farrell’s birthday, he mentioned. That evening, he “obtained as much as all types of nonsense” that landed him again residence within the wee hours. On the time, Farrell was struggling to kick a longtime substance abuse behavior.
“I keep in mind entering into mattress, and as quickly as I turned off the sunshine the telephone rang,” the Academy Award winner mentioned. He was 10 minutes late for his 6 a.m. pickup.
“I went, ‘Oh, s—.’”
Farrell mentioned he had hardly fumbled his approach out of his automobile when assistant director David H. Venghaus Jr. intercepted him, insisting, “You’ll be able to’t go to the set like this.”
In response, the younger actor requested six Pacifico beers and a pack of Marlboro Reds.
“Now pay attention, it’s not cool as a result of two years later I went to rehab, proper?” Farrell advised Colbert. “But it surely labored within the second.”
Did it, although?
In the long run, Farrell mentioned it took him 46 takes to ship one single line, albeit a verbose one: “I’m certain you’ve all grasped the basic paradox of pre-crime methodology.”
“Tom wasn’t very pleased with me,” Farrell mentioned. Fortunate for Cruise, he obtained a comfort prize within the type of a Saturn Award nomination from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Movies. Plus, “Minority Report’s” $35.6-million home opening didn’t harm.
Farrell lastly obtained sober a number of years later, shortly earlier than he filmed “In Bruges” (2008), he mentioned on the 2021 Dublin Worldwide Movie Competition.
At first, the transition was troublesome to handle, Farrell mentioned: “After 15 or 20 years of carousing the way in which I caroused and ingesting the way in which I drank, the sober world is a fairly scary world.”
However “to return residence and to not have the buffer assist of some drinks simply to calm the nerves, it was a very superb factor,” he mentioned.
