"A shitty actor" : this film that Colin Farrell no longer assumes

This Tuesday, January 10, 2023, Colin Farrell was rewarded at the Golden Globes for his performance in The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonagh. Eighteen years ago, he would have seen himself winning another prize, an Oscar, but at the time, this scenario had not happened, quite the contrary. Oliver Stone’s historical film, alexanderreleased in 2005 (and available on Prime Video)in which he played the King of Macedonia, did not meet with the expected success, as the main interested party recalled in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “Expectations are dangerous. Oliver Stone had been dreaming about the Alexander story since college. (…) When I say ‘expectations’ it’s that we all had our tuxedos decked out [pour les cérémonies de récompenses]. I’m not even kidding. We said to ourselves: ‘OK guys, we’re on our way to the Oscars, that’s for sure’. And then the movie came out“the actor still remembers in the interview spotted by Allocinated.

Colin Farrell, a “shitty actor” ?

“I found myself saying to people I met: ‘Have you seen Alexander? If so, I’m really sorry. This is not a joke”, says the actor. A bad for a good ? Without a doubt. Because for Colin Farrell, there was a before and after Alexandre. “I questioned myself, saying to myself, ‘I’m just a shitty actor. I unmasked. I arrived [dans ce métier] with a bit of guts and a bit of Irish here and there but damn it, I don’t give a fuck!‘”he explains to The Hollywood Reporter. Before qualifying as follows: “I was 23 and at that age you actually care about it but you don’t know how to articulate or live with that feeling; the easiest way is to tell yourself you don’t care. ***D.”

A surprisingly life-saving failure

“These are not excuses, I was young, but alexander made me doubt“analyzes the 46-year-old actor with hindsight. “I had to reconnect with the Colin who enrolled in acting class when he was 17. And not only the one who went there for the first time, but also the one who registered for the second workshop. I lost that”, recognizes the one who has since caught up well. The failure ofalexander was constructive, because it served as a trigger for him by making him understand in a radical way that, perhaps intoxicated by the staggering salaries of the time, he was losing sight of the essential. “It’s been an interesting journey, and I’ve been lucky enough to have the opportunity to reconnect with a simplicity that should never have left the heart of what we do“he concludes.

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