Colin Farrell has opened up on one of his films, Alexander, which only made $34,293,771 at the box office – a fraction of it’s estimated $155,000,000 budget.
Released in 2004, it had an all-star cast including Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer and Anthony Hopkins along with Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone.
“Somehow it was not what people wanted it to be or what people expected it to be. It got thrashed critically and publicly,” he said of the film.
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However, Colin looks back on his time filming Alexander fondly and praised he co-stars and director.
“Alexander was a once in a lifetime experience. It was so big in scope and reach and ambition and epic quality,” he told The Los Angeles Times.
“It had an incredible filmmaker [Oliver Sone] and an incredible cast and script. And yet somehow it was not what people wanted it to be or what people expected it to be. It got thrashed critically and publicly.
“But more importantly the experience of shooting it was extraordinary. It was a cast of mostly male actors getting up to all sorts of nonsense at night and working really hard during the day, in all these exotic locales.
“It feels like it was a very significant chapter in all our lives even though it didn’t work out commercially or financially. I would do it all over again.”
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The Dubliner also admitted that he loved working on the TV series True Detective despite the reception being “lukewarm.”
“I loved doing ‘True Detective.’ And I had a real love for that character. As a man, he was the human equivalent of an old, beaten down pair of shoes.
“He was born of an America that was part of a bygone era. A very conflicted character, too. There was a lot of really humane issues at play and he had a lot of incredibly dramatic scenes I got to jump in and play around with.
“I know the reception was lukewarm – the first season was so strong across the board and there were so many expectations – but the experience was incredible,” he added.
However, this year Colin’s work is on the rise as his new film with Eddie Redmayne, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, smashed the box office at it’s opening weekend bringing in almost €1million.
