Colin Farrell finds it “really fun” to explore new challenges.
Colin Farrell enjoys taking on new challenges
The 49-year-old actor plays a gambling addict in Ballad of a Small Player, the new psychological thriller film, and Colin has revealed what drew him to the Edward Berger-directed project.
Speaking at the Zurich Film Festival, Colin explained: “The script was beautiful.
“It was so dynamic and it was so singular and like nothing I’d ever read.
“I find as an actor, reading things and having a certain degree of choice I’m fortunate enough to have, you either lean into something as you’re reading it or you don’t. Inevitably I end up leaning into things that I feel I haven’t explored before just because it’s fun. It’s just really fun.”
Colin considers making the new movie to have been a unique career challenge. And the actor is keen to continue to test himself in the coming years.
Colin shared: “It doesn’t take much for me to feel like I’m repeating myself, you know, and that can feel kind of sticky in an unfortunate way.
“So this was very singular. It was very unique. I’d never read anything like it. I flew through it. But I kind of felt nauseous reading it as well, because the film is, if you ever see it, it’s incredibly loud. The colours are very brash. It’s very bombastic.
“I mean, there’s nothing subtle about it — I will say that now. And it was the same in reading it. It was kind of an assault on the senses in reading as well.”
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