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The actor in \u2018Miami Vice\u2019, which received middling reviews at the time of release, but has since generated a cult following (Universal Pictures)<\/p>\n
When he was reminded that he criticised the film himself in 2010, just four years after its original release, Farrell said: \u201cI had a certain banter with Jamie off camera that I know the tone of the film wouldn\u2019t have allowed that degree of banter. I would have loved to have just a little bit more of the banter. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was never gonna be Lethal Weapon, but just a little bit more of the banter that we had.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cThat was my biggest misgiving with the film. But I have very little objectivity about the things that I do. I heard from someone that people like it now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The film received middling reviews at the time of release, but has since generated a cult following.<\/p>\n
In 2010, Farrell said he didn\u2019t like Miami Vice, telling the Belfast Telegraph: \u201cI thought it was style over substance and I accept a good bit of the responsibility.\u201d <\/p>\n
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Farrell and Jamie Foxx in Michael Mann\u2019s \u2018Miami Vice\u2019 (Universal Pictures)<\/p>\n
Another project Farrell would like to be reappraised is True Detective season two, which was savaged by critics upon its premiere in 2015. The show followed a hugely acclaimed debut season starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt got battered,\u201d he told The Independent, calling it \u201cone of the kicks on the arse\u201d he\u2019s experienced in his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was a bit sad with True Detective because I really did have a great experience playing, what was the character\u2019s name? Ray Velcoro. Loved that character. Loved, loved, loved playing Ray. He was an animal, but he was a decent man that did a lot of despicable s***.\u201d<\/p>\n
Farrell, who starred in the series with Rachel McAdams, Vince Vaughn and Kelly Reilly, added: \u201cIt was twisty and bent and all over the place.\u00a0It wasn\u2019t as linear as the wonderful subsequent seasons and the season that came before. [Series creator] Nic Pizzolatto is an extraordinary writer.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The star \u2018loved\u2019 starring in critically maligned \u2018True Detective\u2019 season two (HBO)<\/p>\n
Speaking about the show\u2019s disappointing response, Farrell said: \u201cYou take it on the chin. You just lick your wounds. It\u2019s really about the doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The actor\u2019s latest film Ballad of a Small Player is available to stream on Netflix now. Watch the full interview with Farrell above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-245827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}