After a meteoric rise then crash, followed by a recovery to mediocracy, Colin Farrell is on fire again – intriguing in The Lobster, crowdpleasing in Fantastic Beasts and with an upcoming slate of edgy-cool projects that demand attention. With Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled up next, the Dubliner reflects on the importance of happiness on and off screen.
Colin Farrell is calling from his car while cruising round LA and wants to give Total Film a heads up that our chat is likely to be interrupted. “So unprofessional,” he apologises with a laugh. In fact, he’s the very definition of courteous professionalism; once a self-confessed bad boy who shot to stardom off the back of an electric debut in 2000’s Tigerland, and subsequently rolled out of nightclubs, dated Britney Spears and was featured in a sex tape with a Playboy model at the height of his voracious ascent, Farrell embraced sobriety and yoga in 2005 (TF once sat next to him on a beach while he did his sun salutations before a junket) and is currently on nothing more rock ’n’ roll than the school run to pick up his son. The unprofessionalism he alludes to amounts to toggling expertly between eloquent discussion of his torrid new film, The Beguiled, and ensuring seat belts are buckled and sweets are eaten in moderation (“You can take one thing, one thing,” he parents mid-muse on gender politics).
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RETURN TO OZ
WICKED Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande defy gravity as the Broadway smash reaches cinemas.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
SMILE 2 Trauma-horror sequel sees the curse latch onto a pop superstar...
BAD ROMANCE
TIMESTALKER Alice Lowe falls in love with the wrong man time and time again...
CLOWNING GORY
TERRIFIER 3 Creator Damien Leone says Art the Clown is coming home for Christmas...
SELF EXPRESSION
LAYLA A non-binary, British-Palestinian drag queen navigates their expression of identity.
GENA ROWLANDS
I like difficult roles,' said Gena Rowlands. No kidding. A stage, TV and film actor whose career spanned more than six decades, Rowlands will be most remembered for the series of coruscating dramas she made with her first husband, actor-turned-director John Cassavetes, between 1968 and 1984.
'NOW NOTHING IS ABOUT LOOKS OR ABOUT BEING A LEADING LADY.AND IT'S VERY LIBERATING' EMILY WATSON
Since breaking hearts in Breaking the Waves, Emily Watson has delivered countless screen masterclasses, from Gosford Park and Punch-Drunk Love to Apple Tree Yard. Now, the English star goes toe-to-toe with Cilllan Murohy in Irish drama Smeal/ Things like hese and fronts 1V prequel Dune: Prophecy. Is it her second coming? It's elementary, my dear Watson...
BLODD PRESSURE
BASED ON STEPHEN KING'S MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOK AND WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY IT SCRIBE GARY DAUBERMAN, VAMPIRE MOVIE SALEM'S LOT FACED AN UNHOLY FIGHT TO GET TO OUR SCREENS. TOTAL FILM HUNTS DOWN DAUBERMAN AND STARS LEWIS PULLMAN AND MAKENZIE LEIGH TO LEARN ALL THAT WAS AT STAKE...
Lucky Man
He broke out in Beatles jukebox musical Yesterday and has a varied slate of juicy projects on the horizon, including a very different take on a superhero franchise. But, as the everhumble Himesh Patel tells Total Film, he puts a lot of it down to luck...
A BUE ABOVE
WORLD-BUILDER EXTRAORDINAIRE RIDLEY SCOTT IS ALSO THE MASTER OF THE DIRECTOR'S CUT, RESTORING HIS MISHANDLED GEMS INTO MASTERPIECES. WITH THE EXPANSIVE DIRECTOR'S CUT OF NAPOLEON NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM, TOTAL FILM SPEAKS TO THE GREAT SCOTT ABOUT BLOWING UP BONAPARTE HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH EDITING AND WHY BIGGER IS (USUALLY) BETTER.