From his nightly bar-hopping with friends to his highly
publicized escapades around town, Colin Farrell has developed a
reputation for himself as becoming one of the new up and coming bad
boys of Hollywood.
Since the success of last summer’s action blockbuster,
“Minority Report,” in which he starred opposite Tom
Cruise, Farrell’s Hollywood career isn’t slowing down.
With four movies scheduled for release in the coming months,
including “The Recruit” with Al Pacino which opens
Friday, all bets are off when trying to figure out how much higher
his profile will get this year.
Despite what the media has made of his after-hours partying, or
even because of it, Farrell has gathered a large female fan base in
the process, including girls from UCLA.
“I just think he’s so adorable,” said
second-year student Serena Liu, a self-proclaimed fan who has
fallen head-over-heels for Farrell since seeing him in
“American Outlaws.”
Farrell says he welcomes the attention that he’s gotten
from the press as well as the ladies he encounters from being out
around the town.
“Like anyone my age, I like to go out, it’s no
biggie,” Farrell said. “You do a good day of decent
work “¦ at the end of work you’re wound up and go out
and have some drinks.”
And the ladies?
“A lot of the time you just go out with the lads, you get
drunk, and then you fall into bed by yourself or sometimes you
score,” Farrell said.
According to Bridgette Moynahan, one of his co-stars in
“The Recruit,” Farrell’s reputation for being
uncontrollable was quite intimidating to her before she finally had
the opportunity to meet him.
“I have heard about that before doing the movie, and it
was making me nervous because it’s sort of scary thinking
you’ll be working with this wild man,” Moynahan said.
“But he’s also such a gentleman because he shows up to
work and he’s all there. He works and plays hard and does
them both to the fullest.”
When he’s not drinking at his favorite Santa Monica bar on
Wilshire Boulevard and 23rd Street or enjoying a cigarette in the
lobby of the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard, Farrell makes
time to read over incoming scripts and perform research for
upcoming roles.
For his role as fresh-out-of-college CIA trainee James Clay in
“The Recruit,” Farrell went to Boston for a week before
filming to gather what the atmosphere was like to be a student at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school from which
his character graduates. Not having endured college himself,
Farrell appreciated the opportunity to see what college life was
all about.
“I met people at bars and frat heads and all that kind of
(stuff),” Farrell said. “You can choose whether James
Clay really would’ve been the type of guy to be in a frat or
not, but it was interesting to see what life was like on a
campus.”
Exposed to only the social aspects of college but not having to
suffer through any boring lectures or final exams, Farrell was able
to leave MIT with a slightly more fun-filled outlook on his college
experience than most students may have after four of five years of
classes.
“Here it’s Hollywood, and you’re reminded of
what you do, and maybe who you should be, and that to me, is not
the best place to be,” Farrell said. “It’s great
to be a student.”