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 Colin Farrell
Interview By: Andrea Tuccillo The new year has brought some fresh new movie roles for Colin Farrell. After a short absence from the big screen, Farrell is making a comeback under the guidance of some of the most acclaimed writer/directors in the business. In January, he appeared with Ewan McGregor in Woody Allen’s tragic drama Cassandra’s Dream. Now, he’s starring alongside Ralph Fiennes and Brendan Gleeson in Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy In Bruges. Farrell and Gleeson play Irish hit men named Ray and Ken, respectively. After a job goes wrong, their boss (Fiennes) sends them to Bruges (pronounced “broozh”)—one of the oldest cities in Belgium. The two out-of-place tourists find themselves in some truly bizarre situations as they wait for their boss’s next call. “The whole job was an adventure; taking that script and realizing it was a wonderful adventure to be on,” Farrell says. “Bruges itself, it’s a beautiful city; a very magical place. But when we arrived there it was the middle of winter so it was dark everyday at 4:00 in the afternoon; there was nobody on the streets. It really had sort of a desolate feel to it. And then when we picked up in the spring there were tourists everywhere.” The film has some very comedic moments, but it also has some heavy, serious moments, making it a hard genre to peg. “The script was very hard to pin down,” says Farrell. “It was very hard to have kind of a general, macro feeling about the whole thing. There was so much dichotomy going on with all the characters and Ray particularly, there was this innocence that was maintained throughout even though he has made the decision. Being hit men is something that they do, but it’s not who they are. Even Brendan’s character, Ken, who has been doing it for a lot longer and wears the suit a lot better and with a lot more comfort, even he kind of doubts it and finds out at the end that it’s not who he is and not who he wants to be. Even if he’s going to die in this last moment, he’s going to die a free man for the first time in a long time.” Farrell further describes his own character. “Ray gets away with a lot,” he says. “I think people come away from the film feeling that his intent was never really malicious which is bizarre to say. He shot a priest with intent and then accidentally killed a child. But I just think he’s someone that’s incredibly innocent. It’s bizarre how much he gets away with. There’s a purity and an innocence to the way he expresses himself and the way he talks and the way he views the world, very much like a child. He doesn’t have any censorship. So how did I do that? I just went for it; it was good fun.” While he admits that he thinks his character is suicidal throughout most of the film, ... |
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