Colin Farrell reveals why Tom Cruise ‘wasn’t completely happy’ with him while…
Nobody noticed that coming.
Colin Farrell has revealed why Tom Cruise “wasn’t very happy” with him on the set of their 2002 science-fiction action thriller “Minority Report.”
The “Banshees of Inisherin” star, 49, opened up about the hilarious cause during an look on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” Tuesday evening.
Colin Farrell at the Ham Yard Hotel in London, England, on Oct. 11, 2025. Deadline through Getty Images
Tom Cruise and Farrell in 2002’s “Minority Report.” ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
It began with Farrell, who was still battling alcoholism and substance abuse points at the time, residing it up for his birthday before going to set the next day while still utterly hungover.
“I had one of the worst days I’ve ever had on a film set,” he started. “It was my birthday on May 31, and we were shooting. I begged production – who did I think I was? – of a $120 million film if they [could] not have me working on my birthday.”
“So, of course, my pickup was 6 a.m. on May 31, and I got up to all sorts of nonsense the night before,” Farrell continued. “I remember getting into bed, and as soon as I turned off the light, the phone rang, and the driver said, ‘It’s 10 past 6.’ I went, ‘Oh, s–t.’”
Farrell at the Ham Yard Hotel in London, England, on Oct. 11, 2025. Deadline through Getty Images
Cruise during “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on May 19, 2025. Todd Owyoung/NBC through Getty Images
The “Penguin” star went on to recall that the movie’s first assistant director, David H. Venghaus Jr., met him at the shoot and instantly expressed concern that Farrell couldn’t “go to the set like this.”
“And I went, ‘Just get me six Pacifico Cervezas and a packet of 20 [Marlboro] Red,’” Farrell said to laughter and applause. “Now, listen, it’s not cool because two years later I went to rehab, right?”
“But it worked in the moment,” he added. “All the holy people that we look to on how to live a life would say the present is all that counts.”
Farrell noticed in New York City on Oct. 28, 2025. GC Images
After having “a couple of beers,” the “Phone Booth” star walked onto set to shoot his “Minority Report” scenes that day. However, he had some hassle getting began.
“It was terrible,” Farrell said. “I will never forget the line I had that I couldn’t get out. 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,’” he continued. “And I went, ‘No, we’ll just go through it.’”
Cruise at Cineworld Leicester Square in London, England, on June 23, 2025. Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Pictures
Cruise at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City, Mexico, on May 20, 2025. Getty Images for Paramount Pictures
Cruise, meanwhile, was starting to get fed up with Farrell’s drunken antics at this point in the manufacturing.
“We did 46 takes,” the Oscar nominee revealed. “Tom wasn’t very happy with me. Tom, who I love, was not very happy!”
Based on Philip Ok. Dick’s 1956 novella of the same identify, “Minority Report” is an action-detective thriller set in Washington, DC, in the 12 months 2054.
Cruise as John Anderton and Farrell as Danny Witwer in “Minority Report.” ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
Cruise, Neal McDonough and Farrell in “Minority Report.” ©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
Police make the most of a psychic technology to arrest and convict murderers before they commit their crimes, and Cruise, 63, performs the head of a Precrime unit named John Anderton who’s accused of the future homicide of a person he hasn’t met.
As for Farrell, he portrays Danny Witwer, a skeptical Justice Department agent assigned to convey Cruise’s character in.
Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film went on to earn a formidable $358 million worldwide upon its release in June 2002.
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