The Banshees of Inisherin<\/a> star said that while working on Spielberg\u2019s 2002 film Minority Report,<\/a> he had \u201cone of the worst days\u201d ever on a film set thanks to the heavy partying he did the previous night. <\/p>\n \u201cI grew up watching them lads, I grew up watching Tom Cruise and Top Gun and Risky Business, and Steven Spielberg<\/a> and [composer] John Williams kind of raised me in their films,\u201d he said during an appearance on the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. <\/p>\n \u201cBut it was my birthday on May 31. We were shooting. I begged production of a $120m film if they would not have me working on my birthday. Who did I think I was?\u201d<\/p>\n Based loosely on Philip K Dick\u2019s 1956 novella of the same name, Minority Report follows a police unit<\/a> that uses psychic technology to predict murders <\/a>and stop them before they take place. Colin Farrell<\/a> plays Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer, who audits the programme, alongside Tom Cruise as Precrime chief John Anderton, who finds himself accused of a murder he hasn\u2019t committed yet<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cSo my pickup [time] was at 6am and I got up to all sorts of nonsense the night before,\u201d the Irish actor said. \u201cI remember getting into bed, and as soon as I turned off the light, the phone rang, and it was the driver outside saying, \u2018It\u2019s 10 past 6\u2019 and I went, \u2018Oh s***.\u2019<\/p>\n Farrell recalled assistant director David H Venghaus Jr stopping him at his trailer and saying: \u201cYou can\u2019t go to the set like this.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI went: Just get me, get me six Pacifico Cervezas and a pack of 20 Marlboro Reds,\u201d said Farrell. <\/p>\n The In Bruges star explained that this incident took place a few years before he went to rehab for his addiction to alcohol and drugs. Farrell checked himself into a treatment centre in 2005 and has been sober since 2006. In 2018, he checked himself into rehab as a \u201cpreemptive measure\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cNow, listen, it\u2019s not cool because two years later I went to rehab, right? But it worked in the moment. All the holy people that we look to for the answers on how to live a life would say, \u2018The present is all that counts,\u2019\u201d he continued. <\/p>\n \u201cI had a couple of beers and I went to the set,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it was terrible. I will never forget the line that I had, but I couldn\u2019t get it out. It was: \u2018I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve all grasped the fundamental paradox of pre-crime methodology.\u2019 That was the line that started the scene. I remember one of them coming up and saying, \u2018Do you want to go and take a breath of fresh air?\u2019 And I remember thinking: \u2018If I go out and take a breath of fresh air, then I\u2019ll be under more pressure when I come back in.’\u201d<\/p>\n Farrell revealed what upset Cruise that day. <\/p>\n \u201cIt took 46 takes. Tom wasn\u2019t very happy with me. Tom was not happy with me.\u201d<\/p>\n Farrell is currently promoting his latest film, Ballad of a Small Player, where he plays Lord Freddy Doyle, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau when his past and his debts start to catch up with him. <\/p>\n![\"Colin](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Minority.jpg\")
Colin Farrell shared that he showed up hungover to set once and needed almost 50 takes for one scene, leaving costar Tom Cruise \u2018not very happy\u2019 with him (Rex Features)<\/p>\n![\"Video](\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/img\/logo-white-out.svg\"){kind=logo}
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