Overview
- Farrell recounted that after partying on the eve of his May 31 birthday during production, he arrived in no condition for a 6 a.m. call.
- He said assistant director David H. Venghaus Jr. stopped him from going straight to set, and he asked for six beers and a pack of Marlboro Reds.
- After having “a couple of beers,” Farrell struggled to deliver the opening line of a scene about “the fundamental paradox of pre-crime methodology.”
- He told Stephen Colbert it took 46 takes to get through the scene and that Tom Cruise “wasn’t very happy” with him.
- Farrell noted he entered rehab roughly two years later, and outlets are reporting the anecdote from his Late Show interview without independent confirmation from others on the production.