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...Dubliner has acted in four movies in two years. He has worked with Bruce Willis and Forest Whitaker. He has been directed by Joel Schumacher (Batman Forever) twice. And he's currently filming with Steven Spielberg alongside some guy called Tom Cruise. Last year his turn as Roland Bozz, the lead in Schumacher's low-budget Vietnam flick Tigerland, had American journalists branding him the One to Watch, the Next Big Thing. Now he's asking more than $2 million a film. Still, few people have heard...
...Bozz, the rebellious soldier who helps his friends escape the army before they're sent to Vietnam, Farrell displays a kind of cool that's rare in today's leading men. A sensitive brooder with rugged good looks, he's Russell Crowe without the ego. It's no surprise that admirers are bandying about words like "hunk" and "heartthrob." (About this, Farrell is characteristically ambivalent: "It doesn't piss me off. But it doesn't make me horny, either.") Even his magnetic screen presence, however, can't explain how Farrell has become such hot property so quickly...
...gritty, low-budget Vietnam-era drama Tigerland (which opens in theaters this week) arrived nearly unnoticed. By the end it had emerged as the festival's biggest surprise, and its heretofore unknown star, Colin Farrell, 24, had critics using words like "James Dean" to describe his performance as Bozz, a rebellious Texan recruit who helps his boot-camp buddies in Fort Polk, La., avoid Vietnam combat. A native of Dublin, Ireland, who dropped out of high school to study acting, Farrell had no trouble trading his Irish accent for Bozz's Texas drawl, but he's finding it hard...
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