COLIN'S INTERVIEW WITH THE 'TELEGRAPH'

Can you believe it, I go away for a few days and miss a great interview Colin did with with the 'Telegraph'!  I really enjoyed reading this and felt Colin gave us quite an insight into his life past and present: apart from the 'off limits' regarding his romantic life... umm... the plot thickens?! ; - O

EXTRACTS FROM THE INTERVIEW

PERSONAL LIFE...

Although we are sitting side by side on a sofa, I struggle to hear him – he speaks rapidly but ever so quietly and his whole presence is muted, almost melancholic. He talks elliptically, lyrically.

Colin Farrell grew up with his siblings in Castleknock, an affluent suburb of Dublin. ‘My Dublin wasn’t the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community,’ he says. ‘It was kind of more nouveau riche, competition with the neighbours, a bit more privileged than the Dublin of lore.’

Farrell has decided that he’s ‘boring press’. Aside from a continuingly complicated romantic life, which I have been warned not to ask about, he has, in the past four or five years, abandoned drink and drugs, settled in Los Angeles and concentrated on being an attentive father to his two young boys. 

AFTER 'ALEXANDER'...

‘I was going to walk away from acting. I couldn’t buy a packet of cigarettes without feeling I needed to apologise to the guy behind the counter in case they saw the f---ing thing!’ He felt beholden to the crew, the extras, his fellow actors and to Stone himself.

AFTER 'MIAMI VICE'...

As for Farrell: ‘I just completely fell to s--- on that one!’ He starts to laugh and looks knowingly at his sister, who joins in. ‘It was literally the first time I couldn’t say to anyone around me: “Have I been late for work, have I missed a day’s work, have I been hitting my marks?” Because the answer would have been yes, yes, and no.’

REHAB...

As soon as the film wrapped up Farrell checked himself into rehab. ‘For the first time ever,’ he says, ‘I lost the ability to be confident that I could make a change myself. I knew I was f---ed.’ So what brought him back? ‘A good old session in rehab.’ Another laugh. ‘A few tears and a couple of hugs with strangers.’ 

 ‘“Do you think it’s harder for celebrities to get sober than normal people?” And

I was just like, are you joking? I didn’t come out unemployed, hadn’t lost my family, my home, had all my teeth in my head. Could I have had it any easier?’ 

AFTER 'IN BRUGES'...

In the couple of years since it was released, In Bruges has won a cult following. It seemed to restore people’s faith in Farrell and perhaps his own faith in himself. 

UP & COMING...

Last week, Farrell was reportedly offered the part originally played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in a remake of Total Recall. He’s yet to sign on the dotted line, but it sounds like it’s the right time for him to take it on: ‘I’d like to make big films and small films, mainly because I’m a massive fan of film. The idea of doing an Indiana Jones, or even an Inception – I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there’s a place for films that pry more into the human condition.’

THE FAME PART...

Does he mind when people pry into his life, that people are just as interested in him as a man as an actor? He raises his eyebrows: ‘I’m not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.’

SOURCE:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/8157894/Colin-Farrell-interview.html