Tom Cruise Is “Probably Biggest Investor In UK Economy Over Past Decade,” Jokes Culture Minister Chris Bryant Notably disheveled, Farrell was stopped by assistant director David H. Venghaus, who told him, “‘You can’t go to the set like this.'” “And I went, ‘Just get me six Pacifico Cervezas and a packet of 20 Red.’ Now, listen, it’s not cool because two years later I went to rehab, right? But it worked in the moment. All the holy people that we look to on how to live a life would say the present is all that counts,” added Farrell, who has been sober since checking into a rehabilitation facility in 2006. Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell in ‘Minority Report’ (2002) (20th Century Fox Film Corp./Courtesy Everett Collection) Farrell admitted he “had a couple of beers” before filming the scene, noting “it was terrible.” “I will never forget the line I had that I couldn’t get out,” he said. “It was, ‘I’m sure you’ve all grasped the fundamental paradox of pre-crime methodology.’ That was the line that started the scene. I remember [the crew] coming up and saying, ‘Do you want to go out and take a breath of fresh air?’ And I remember thinking, ‘If I go out and take a breath of fresh air, then I’ll be under more pressure when I come back in to be better.’ And I went, ‘No, we’ll just go through it.’ “We did 46 takes. Tom wasn’t very happy with me. Tom, who I love, was not very happy!” added Farrell. Must Read Stories Source: https://deadline.com/2025/10/colin-farrell-minority-report-46-takes-drunk-1236602479/