Minority Report: Pause at 22 minutes and 17 seconds, this line must have been taken over 50 times!

Minority Report is a visual film based on a book that is no less visual! But know that a world with such technical terms requires good speech from its actors. Good indication that actor Colin Farrell (Danny Witwer) wasn’t in the mood that day!

Projections from the movie already exist in reality, this is proof!

At this time, Farrell was troubled by his old demons: drugs and alcohol. And if you pause the film at exactly 22 minutes and 17 seconds, you’ll hear a line that was perfectly delivered, but which, behind the scenes, was an ordeal to pull off. Colin Farrell told this anecdote mirror In 2019:

“There were difficult days, I very arrogantly asked not to work on the day after my birthday. I begged: do not make me work on June 1, because my birthday is May 31. I thought it was a 100 million dollar movie. I would still listen to this request, but I was working. And I had a restless sleepless night.”

I got the retort, “I’m sure you understand the legal downside of pre-crime methodology?” I remember this 16 years later because I was overcome with panic anxiety. It should be engraved on my grave.

The actor starts his line over and over without getting it right. A great moment of shame for him, because he did not come alone: “My sister was on set that day and had to leave after take 56. It was a disaster.”

Pharrell finally manages to finish his dialogue, allowing the film crew to move on, and it takes years to overcome his demons. According to him, despite his condition, he was an actor “Very professional, so I’ve given it away over the years. I don’t know how my performance would have been if I’d been sober. Worse or better? I don’t know.”

What is certain is that since 2015, Colin Farrell has made a career choice that offers him to overcome challenges: unrecognizable in The Penguin from Batman, incomprehensible in the director Yorgos Lanthimos, or lost in the futuristic world in the movie “After Young”.