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| Colin Farrell on ALEXANDER! |
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| POSTED Wednesday, November 24, 2004 04:55:38 AM |
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SOURCE - ComingSoon!
REAL SOURCE - Andrew Weil
ComingSoon! talked to Farrell about playing the Macedonian conqueror:
CS!: How do you feel about the physical preparations for your films?
Farrell: I get no kicks from going to the gym. It doesn't do it for me. Never did. Some people like it. Some people enjoy working out and enjoy the feeling, the afterglow that it gives. I don't know what you call it, but it's never done it for me. But I did a lot of physical training for Alexander, more than I ever did before. I put on much more weight than I ever have before and I hated every minute of it.
CS!: What was the Alexander boot camp experience like?
Farrell: I liked the boot camp because that wasn't about working out and stuff. I mean, we did a little bit of physical training in the morning. We jogged every morning, but it was done for a couple of reasons. It was done to bring the cast together, to allow us to learn about each other and to form relationships that would create trust and to also do some physical stuff. But there was no going to the gym and weight lifting, and no protein shakes. But we jogged every morning and we did some physical training and we did pretty much something akin to what we think Macedonian men would have done every day just to keep a certain level of strength or a certain level of morale every day for three weeks.
CS!: Why did you take the role of Alexander?
Farrell: Primarily, I wanted the chance to work with Oliver, was the most attractive thing about it. And then a close second was how fantastic a script he wrote. Then, a very close third or maybe joint second was the part itself. It was just an amazing, amazing part and amazing character. And I knew it would be an absolute trip.
CS!: How did you see the character of Alexander?
Farrell: Really by definition, I saw him as somebody who was all the other things you mentioned, was very brave, very bold, was highly ambitious, highly impassioned. Was quite lonely, was quite damaged from his childhood and what he had seen his parents do to each other, had quite unusual ideas about love or about relationships. And also quite a fear that he would never find love and he had incredible trust issues. Regardless of how he was viewed by some people as son of a god or close to a god in his life, he at the end of the day was only mortal. And I think he realized that. I think he understood that immortality could only be achieved through the final question which was death. And that's what proved to be right because in a certain way he is immortal. Two and a half thousand years later, people are still studying him in schools. They're talking about two movies with him now, there's the History Channel. But I think he was highly melancholic. I think he was a very melancholic man. I think there was a certain part of him that remained the age he was when he saw his mother and father rip each other apart. I think a certain amount of him was kind of in arrested development. And I think that part of him was the melancholy part and the very sensitive side to him. And he could also be a mother******, a tyrant at times. I mean, desperate times call for desperate measures and he committed some atrocities under his rule. But you just have so much is the thing. All this sh** I'm saying I really believe and could've got more in and could've done with getting less in. It's just you would never be finished with it. I don't know how Oliver even finished cutting the film, finished writing the script. I don't know how his head was on the last day of shooting. To walk away from it and think that you ever achieved it or hit the nail on the head or nailed it, it just doesn't happen with this. Which is why I'd love to see another film. I'd love to see as many films as people would be willing to put money or make, because there's so much to it that you could never come out of this place with the same two results.
CS!: What do you think about playing James Bond?
Farrell: As I've said already 15 times today, Pierce has f***** me. He just shot that out. It's great to think that he has that much faith in me but I have no idea. I haven't heard a thing about it except for Pierce and I don't think they're listening to him for casting.
CS!: How was working with Oliver Stone?
Farrell: You know, with someone like Oliver who loves what he's doing and is as impassioned as Oliver is about what he's doing, genuinely just cares about it the way he does and if you're the same, and I am the same, and most people that were involved in this film were the same, whether it was Jared or Rosario or Angie or Val, you don't clash heads but you end up rubbing off each other every now and then, but it's all good and there's no huffing and there's no "I'm not talking to you" or "Go up and apologize" or any of that bull****. You just really both have a vested interest and you share that and it's an interest in the same thing. It's doing the story justice and doing each character and each scene and each moment justice. So in that respect, I had more healthy arguments with Oliver than I've ever had with another director, maybe another man in my life and it was great. It was very liberating and it was the way it should've been.
CS!: How do you feel at this stage in your career?
Farrell: I don't feel like I'm at any point of arrival or I've achieved anything that I hadn't achieved before I started acting. I mean, I know that sounds ridiculous because of course I have on paper. But I'm still me, I'm still working, I'm still not trying to reach the next stage of my career with respect to ambition, but just with respect to my own fulfillment as an actor or a person. And I don't live in Hollywood so I haven't been here in so fu***** long, I've just been working. So I've been on sets with crews and you go out with crew and the cast and you have a drink and you work hard. I've been doing that for a year and a half since Alexander. I haven't been home. And I had 11 days off between Ask the Dust and the start of the Malick film which for me was like what the f*** am I doing? But I've just been involved in just living and working so I haven't seen the other stuff or felt the perceptions of what might be going on.
Wow!
 NightWolverine007
The Howling X-Stud
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