Focus FeaturesColin Farrell is aging incredibly well. He showed up for the In Bruges junket looking naughty and scrumptious. Greasy black hair—graying on the side! He ran his hands through it, put it in a ponytail. It was all very distracting, in the best possible way. And the outfit: a see-through white shirt that allowed for a close-up look at his tattoos, a black vest buttoned up. Heaven!
And that goes for the movie as well. In Bruges, a tale of two hit men (Farrell and Brendan Gleeson) stuck in a Belgian tourist town, is the greatest thing Colin has ever done, and he knows it. Hats off to writer-director Martin McDonagh for finding the balance between dreamy, moving, funny and sad. Now, savor some Colin.
On the Bruges Script: "It's my favorite thing I ever read." Um, how do you think Oliver Stone and Michael Mann would feel about that? "F--k them!" he laughs. "I think they'd feel fine. They have an idea of how good they are."
On His Life in Belgium: "I was hidden, knackered after most days. I found a nice unisex steam place, all aboveboard. All these bodies, different shapes and sizes, we all just sat and talked together."
On the Dialogue: "There's a great line where Harry (Ralph Fiennes) is on the train [and] sits down in front of this businessman. And the businessman says something to him like, 'Are you going to Bruges on business?' And Harry goes, 'If I wanted to talk to a c--t, I would have gone to the talk to a c--t shop.' " Ha!
On America: "I hate it here. It's so puritanical here."
On His Downtime: "Traveling, hanging out with mates, going for dinner, going to cinema. I write a bit, but I'm shite at it. It's good for me to have somewhere to kind of purge."
On Valentine's Day Plans: "I didn't know it was coming up."