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...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...
...Technically, Farrell isn't famous yet. Apart from a handful of film critics, hardly anybody has seen him act. Tigerland was a box office failure, bringing in a measly $140,000. But Farrell's performance, complete with spot-on Texan accent, burned him into cineast consciousness and created a buzz akin to hysteria. "It's mad. None of this was planned," says Farrell at a bar in Prague, the filming location for the World War II drama Hart's War. "I always just auditioned for jobs and hoped I did well, so I could move on to the next step...
...This sort of hurry-up can induce bidding wars for unknowns. Colin Farrell, an Irish actor whose only notable film work was in Joel Schumacher's scruffy "Tigerland," snagged the title role in a Willis war drama, "Hart's War," when Edward Norton dropped out. Farrell got a whopping $2.5 million for the role. From the studio's side, that's called panic...
GOAL: To parlay his starmaking turn in Tigerland into a major movie career...
Hype and glory don't usually go hand in hand. At the Toronto Film Festival last month, the 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...