""The issue began when the film didn't let Farrell off for his birthday, despite him asking for the time. "I got up to all sorts of nonsense the night before," Farrell said. "I remember getting into bed, and as soon as I turned off the light, the phone rang and it was the driver outside saying, 'It's 10 past 6,' and I went, 'Oh shit.'" He was, unsurprisingly, hungover. To get over the sickness, Farrell says he told the team, "Just get me six Pacifico Cervezas and a pack of 20 Marlboro Reds.""
""I will never forget the line that I had, but I couldn't get it out," Farrell recalled. "It was: 'I'm sure you've all grasped the fundamental paradox of precrime methodology.' That was the line that started the scene." To be fair, that's a hard line even for a sober person. With a hangover, it took him "46" takes to get it right. "Tom wasn't very happy with me," Farrell threw in."
Colin Farrell arrived hungover on the Minority Report set after celebrating his birthday and struggling with early call times. He requested beer and cigarettes to ease his sickness. His role as a hypercompetent Department of Justice agent auditing Precrime conflicted with his condition, and he repeatedly failed to deliver a complex opening line. The scene required dozens of takes—reported as 46—to get right, provoking visible displeasure from Tom Cruise. Despite the on-set difficulties, critics later praised Farrell's work as outstanding, calling him a quicksilver talent and attributing the incident to his method.
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