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I'm Colin F**kin' Farrell
Friday 6 June 2003 - Dublin
Daily Interactive
We look at Colin Farrell's interview with Gerry Ryan as he
talks about his background, rise to fame, heavy drinking,
chain-smoking and racy love life
By Jenny Friel
Colin Farrell says he loves his new Hollywood lifestyle, but
that he'd never live in America.
Picture: Camera Press
Well, the sweet-voiced continuity announcer warned us:
"Strong language and a frank discussion of an adult
nature."
But what she forgot to say before the opening credits rolled on
last night's Gerry Ryan interview with Colin Farrell was that
there was going to be absolutely nothing in it that we didn't know
before.
In fairness to Gerry, the boy from Castleknock has always been
very media-friendly and details of his background, rise to fame,
heavy drinking, chain-smoking and racy love life have been well
documented in magazines and newspapers on both sides of the
Atlantic.
The one thing viewers did get to witness for themselves last
night was Farrell's legendary ability to use the kind of language
that has earned him his Hollywood badboy reputation.
"Straight up, it's f***ing lovely," he replied to
Gerry's first question of the evening about how he regards his
fame.
Then, after a quick Q&A about how he feels about being
followed by newspapers ("Don't give a f**k really"),
there was a bit about his line dancing days and how he travelled
to gay clubs in Belfast as a teenager to dance at raves.
We heard again how he auditioned for Boyzone but manager Louis
Walsh told him he was tone deaf and now he'd love to get the
chance to say: "F*** you, Louis Walsh and your Boyzone,"
followed quickly by "Nah, I'm only f***ing joking."
As Gerry continued eating, and Colin, who turned 27 last
weekend, continued smoking, they moved on to how making millions
of dollars has changed his life.
"A good man it does not make me," he told Gerry.
"With all me millions, I still can't buy me grandfather
another year."
He told us that one of his most profound professional moments
so far was discovering that Al Pacino is still insecure about his
work and he also told Gerry he didn't get too friendly with Tom
Cruise while working on Minority Report.
"I don't know much about it, but he's a Scientologist and
they aren't really into going for a few pints after work."
Ireland is still Farrell's home, while "America is a
brilliant, f***ed-up place, but I'd never live there."
He explained: "When I put the key in the door of my house
in Irishtown, I know I'm home."
At one point, the discussion really did get interesting when he
clarified that he never told Playboy magazine that Irish girls
were too hairy, "Just hairier than girls in LA."
And it continued for a bit as Gerry nodded solemnly to
Farrell's revelations about what you can expect when you get up
close and personal to a LA lady.
He spoke of his love for his former wife but then confirmed
that they had never been legally married.
And then came the bit that crushed all hopes for anyone
planning on capturing the heart of the multi-millionaire Dublin
actor.
"I don't want to fall in love now," he said. "I
don't want anyone else to trust me, not for the moment."
Another shining moment came after a clumsy and ponderous
attempt by Gerry to extract whether Farrell will ever contemplate
settling down.
"I got what you meant the first f***ing time," he cut
in, smiling. "Of course I want to meet someone, eventually. A
girl who's f***ing generous, great fun. A smart bird, and
emotionally honest."
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