Colin Farrell partied like it was his birthday while filming 'Minority Report.' Tom Cruise wasn't pleased

The hairsbreadth of the canine is nary occurrence remedy. Colin Farrell knows this from experience.

The Irish histrion learned the limits of the people remedy galore moons agone portion filming “Minority Report,” the Steven Spielberg-directed tech noir movie based connected Philip K. Dick’s subject fabrication novella of the aforesaid name.

That fateful time connected set, arsenic Farrell told it Tuesday connected “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” was possibly adjacent much disturbing than the surveillance-state mounting wherein the 2002 movie unfolds.

It each started connected the eve of Farrell’s birthday, helium said. That night, helium “got up to each sorts of nonsense” that landed him backmost location successful the wee hours. At the time, Farrell was struggling to footwear a longtime substance maltreatment habit.

“I retrieve getting into bed, and arsenic soon arsenic I turned disconnected the airy the telephone rang,” the histrion said. He was 10 minutes precocious for his 6 a.m. pickup.

“I went, ‘Oh, s—.’”

Farrell said helium had hardly fumbled his mode retired of his car erstwhile adjunct manager David H. Venghaus Jr. intercepted him, insisting, “You can’t spell to the acceptable similar this.”

In response, the young histrion requested six Pacifico beers and a battalion of Marlboro Reds.

“Now listen, it’s not chill due to the fact that 2 years aboriginal I went to rehab, right?” Farrell told Colbert. “But it worked successful the moment.”

Did it, though?

In the end, Farrell said it took him 46 takes to present 1 azygous line, albeit a verbose one: “I’m definite you’ve each grasped the cardinal paradox of pre-crime methodology.”

“Tom wasn’t precise blessed with me,” Farrell said. Lucky for Cruise, helium got a consolation prize successful the signifier of a Saturn Award information from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. Plus, “Minority Report’s” $35.6-million home opening didn’t hurt.

Farrell yet got sober a fewer years later, soon earlier helium filmed “In Bruges” (2008), helium said astatine the 2021 Dublin International Film Festival.

At first, the modulation was hard to manage, Farrell said: “After 15 oregon 20 years of carousing the mode I caroused and drinking the mode I drank, the sober satellite is simply a beauteous scary world.”

But “to travel location and not to person the buffer enactment of a fewer drinks conscionable to calm the nerves, it was a truly astonishing thing,” helium said.