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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

‘Tom Cruise was not happy’: Colin Farrell was so drunk on Minority Report he needed 46 takes for a single line

Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell in Minority Report, 2002.
Sobering tale … Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell in Minority Report (2002). Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Allstar

Colin Farrell has said that he once showed up so drunk to a film set he needed almost 50 takes to convincingly get through a line of dialogue, angering co-star Tom Cruise.

Speaking to Stephen Colbert on his late-night talk show, Farrell recalled “one of the worst days” he’d ever experienced on set, both hungover and freshly intoxicated on Steven Spielberg’s 2002 sci-fi drama Minority Report.

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