
‘Tom Wasn’t Very Happy’: Colin Farrell Recalls Needing 46 Hungover Takes With Tom Cruise
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The Irish actor recalled staying up all night to celebrate his birthday, despite a 6 a.m. wakeup call to film a scene opposite Cruise for 2002's "Minority Report."
Colin Farrell shared a particularly embarrassing memory Tuesday on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” from his time filming “Minority Report” opposite Tom Cruise — who apparently “wasn’t very happy” about what happened.
“I also had one of the worst days I’ve ever had on a film set,” Farrell recalled, adding: “It was my birthday on May 31st, and we were shooting, and I begged production — who did I think I was? — of a $120 million film if they would not have me working on my birthday.”
Farrell was a rising star when he was cast in Steven Spielberg’s 2002 blockbuster, while Cruise was already a Hollywood legend with a reputation for sheer professionalism on set. Farrell had yet to find sobriety, leading to an apparent all-night birthday bender.
“So of course my pickup was 6 a.m. on May 31st, and I got up to all sorts of nonsense the night before,” he said Tuesday. “And I remember getting into bed, and as soon as I turned off the light, the phone rang, and it was the driver outside who said, ‘It’s 10 past 6.’”
“And I went, ‘Oh, shit,’” Farrell said.













