In his latest film, Ballad of a Small Player, Colin Farrell plays a high-stakes gambler hiding out in the casinos of Macau. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP
Colin Farrell has said that he once showed up so drunk to a film set he needed almost 50 takes to convincingly get through a line of dialogue, angering costar Tom Cruise.
Speaking to Stephen Colbert on his late-night talkshow, Farrell recalled “one of the worst days” he’d ever experienced on set, both hungover and freshly intoxicated on Steven Spielberg’s 2002 sci-fi drama Minority Report.
In the film, based on Philip K Dick’s 1956 novella of the same name, Farrell plays a department of justice agent who audits a programme us
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