{"id":152055,"date":"2025-10-29T20:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/152055\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:13:12","slug":"colin-farrell-admits-he-ped-off-tom-cruise-on-film-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/152055\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Farrell Admits He P***ed Off Tom Cruise on Film Set"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colin Farrell<\/a>, 49, said his worst day on a film set was when he screwed up a line over 40 times while shooting in front of his sister and film icons, Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg. <\/p>\n

During an appearance on Tuesday\u2019s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Farrell recalled being excited to star alongside Cruise in Minority Report and be directed by Spielberg because he grew up watching their films.<\/p>\n

But on May 31st, 2002, halfway through shooting, Farrell came to the set after a night out partying for his 25th birthday and was not in the best state to perform. Farrell said he struggled to say the line, \u201cI\u2019m sure you\u2019ve all grasped the fundamental paradox of precrime methodology.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert and guest Colin Farrell during Tuesday\u2019s October 28, 2025 show. Scott Kowalchyk\/CBS <\/p>\n

\u201cIt took 46 takes,\u201d Farrell added. \u201cTom wasn\u2019t very happy with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farrell admitted that he initially begged production to avoid filming on May 31st because it was his birthday, but settled for the night out when that wasn\u2019t possible. He said he arrived late to set that day, having not gone to sleep the night before, and asked for a six-pack of Pac\u00edfico beer and a box of Marlboro cigarettes to make him alert enough to perform.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of the holy people that we should look to for the answers to how to live a life would say the presence is all that counts,\u201d Farrell said. <\/p>\n

\"TomTom Cruise (as Chief John Anderton), Neal McDonough (as Officer Fletcher) and Colin Farrell (as Danny Witwer) in \u201cMinority Report.\u201d CBS via Getty Images <\/p>\n

Three years after the incident, Farrell went to rehab<\/a> for the first time and has committed to sobriety from drugs and alcohol since. He told The Daily Mail<\/a> in 2024 that his first son, James, was \u201cpart of the fuel\u201d for his sobriety because James was diagnosed with Angelman syndrome, a rare genetic condition that causes severe physical and learning difficulties, the same year Farrell went to rehab.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll children need their parents\u2014or a parent or grandparent or somebody\u2014to care for them, and one of the things James taught me was to access within myself a desire to live, even if it was initially more about me thinking I wanted to live to be around for him,\u201d Farrell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colin Farrell, 49, said his worst day on a film set was when he screwed up a line…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,9441,18,117,19,17,4951,6000],"class_list":{"0":"post-152055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-colin-farrell","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-stephen-colbert","15":"tag-tom-cruise"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115459287642430878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}