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Colin Farrell recently got off playing Lord Doyle in Netflix's The Ballad of a Small Player. The character had some gambling and drinking issues. Though he didn't have them in real life, he did have "a couple of beers" on one of his birthdays.
This birthday with some booze came while he was shooting for Steven Spielberg's science fiction film, Minority Report (2002). However, he regretted it the next day, as he explained to Stephen Colbert during an interview on The Late Show. He said,
"I had one of the worst days I’ve ever had on a film set [on ‘Minority Report’]. It was my birthday on May 31, and we were shooting, and I begged production — who did I think I was? — of a $120 million film if they [could] not have me working on my birthday."
He went on to explain this, saying that,
"I will never forget the line I had that I couldn’t get out. It was, ‘I’m sure you’ve all grasped the fundamental paradox of pre-crime methodology.’ That was the line that started the scene. I remember [the crew] coming up and saying, ‘Do you want to go out and take a breath of fresh air?’ And I remember thinking, ‘If I go out and take a breath of fresh air, then I’ll be under more pressure when I come back in to be better.’ And I went, ‘No, we’ll just go through it.'"
Apparently, they went on to do "46 takes," and Tom Cruise wasn't really happy about it. Colin Farrell said,
"Tom wasn’t very happy with me. Tom, who I love, was not very happy!"
Following the release, Minority Report became a critical and commercial success, with praise especially for its action sequences and the story.
Who was Colin Farrell in Minority Report?
Colin Farrell plays a Department of Justice agent, Danny Witwer, in the film, who audits the Precrime program and then goes after Tom Cruise's John Anderton following a prediction that Anderton will kill a man. However, that turns out to be wrong, as we see later in the movie.
The role was initially offered to Matt Damon, who declined it for Ocean's Eleven, which was released in 2001 and featured an ensemble cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, and more. That was a good thing, as it became the breakthrough role for Colin Farrell, who would later appear in movies like Miami Vice (2006), In Bruges (2008), and more.
What is Minority Report about?
The Steven Spielberg movie had an interesting concept at its heart. There's a program called Precrime, which predicts any criminal activity before it happens. It is effective, as there's no crime for six years in the story. John Anderton heads this program and becomes the victim of one of its fallacies.
Precrime is fueled by three precogs -- Agatha Lively (Samantha Morton), Arthur, and Dashiell "Dash" Arkadin (Michael and Matthew Dickman -- who are clairvoyants, and it's Agatha's vision that begins Witwer's manhunt for Anderton.
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As of this writing, Minority Report sits with a Tomatometer score of 89% and a Popcornmeter score of 80%. Commercially, it made $358 million at the global box office against a $102 million budget and was nominated for an Academy Award.
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