How Colin Farrell shook off his Hollywood bad boy image - Daily Mail

Colin Farrell picked up his 2nd Golden Globe for his unthinkable show successful The Banshees of Inisherin during the star-studded ceremonial connected Tuesday night.

It is conscionable the latest accolade for the Irish movie star, 46, who has carved retired a palmy vocation arsenic a film star known for his galore roles successful some blockbuster and autarkic films.

But helium archetypal roseate to fame successful Hollywood 20 years agone and rapidly earned a estimation for his hard-partying, flings with celebrated pistillate and scandalous statements.

He was thrown into the spotlight overnight after making his Hollywood debut in Tigerland and rapidly became a household name, securing roles written for A-list talents.

However, his stratospheric emergence to fame besides saw him gain a estimation arsenic a Hollywood 'bad boy' who was known for his outrageous behaviour, hard-partying and his emotion of women.

Colin battled substance summation for a decennary earlier checking himself into rehab successful 2006, and helium has since admitted helium was 'out of control' for galore years.

But however did the Irish heartthrob negociate to shingle disconnected his infamous estimation arsenic a Hollywood 'bad boy' and soar to success?

Childhood... and being 'expelled' from school

Colin was calved connected May 31, 1976, successful Castleknock, Dublin, to his footballer begetter Eamon Farrell and his parent Rita Monaghan.

His begetter and his uncle Tommy some played shot for Shamrock Rovers FC, portion Eamon besides ran a wellness nutrient shop.

He was the youngest of 4 children and grew up successful a mediate people lifestyle, surviving successful an upper-class Dublin suburb.

Colin told the Mail On Sunday: 'My parents were some primitively moving class, but we were mediate to precocious class. Dad played shot till helium was 26 oregon 27; aft that helium owned a fish-and-chip store by a play course, The Little Chip Inn. 

'Honest to God, helium ne'er fto america hide the wit of that. Then helium had a restaurant. He has a health-food store successful Dublin called Down To Earth.' 

He attended Castleknock College - one of Ireland's astir prestigious backstage boys schools - Bruce College and Gormanston College successful Meath.

Speaking astir his childhood, Colin has antecedently claimed that helium was expelled from school.

He told American Playboy backmost successful 2003: 'I'll ne'er hide packing my bags and walking retired of the schoolhouse feeling similar a f****** stone star.'

Describing his aboriginal life, Colin besides told the work that helium mislaid his virginity arsenic a teen to a pistillate of 36 and erstwhile took up to 15 ecstasy tablets a night.

However, 1 of his puerility friends Gavin Lambe-Murphy deed backmost astatine this seemingly chaotic behaviour and claimed Colin was ne'er expelled from school.

Speaking successful 2003, helium said: 'Colin was not expelled from Castleknock. He conscionable near successful the 5th twelvemonth and went to Bruce College. He ne'er got expelled from determination either.'

Gavin claimed that helium and Colin were, successful fact, suspended for 4 days for 'throwing rubbers astatine each other' and 'messing around' successful a survey period.

Colin, who was brought up a Roman Catholic, aboriginal dropped retired of play schoolhouse erstwhile helium was formed as Danny Byrne connected BBC1's Ballykissangel.

Rejection from Boyzone 

Despite present being a immense prima successful Hollywood, Colin astir went down a precise antithetic way having auditioned to go a subordinate of Irish boyband Boyzone successful 1993.

However, Colin has since admitted that the 1 drawback to his plans to motorboat a vocation arsenic a popular prima was the information that helium was 'tone deaf'.

He told the Daily Mail backmost successful 2013: 'I was code deaf. I was successful a nightclub successful Dublin erstwhile I was 17 and this fella came up and said: 'I'm going to marque this set and it's going to beryllium huge.' 

'I said: 'Great.' He said: 'Sing for me.' So I sang Careless Whisper and helium said: 'It's not going to work, kid'. The set did bully without me, caput you.'

Although looking backmost connected it with a antithetic attitude, astatine the clip the rejection from the set saw Colin deed stone bottom, saying helium was 'self-destructive' aft the acceptable back.

He went connected to go a enactment dancing teacher and told Radio Times successful 2003 of his Boyzone rejection: 'I was going 1 mode - down, I was self-destructive, inactive am.'

He added: 'I ended up connected a shrink's sofa and helium told maine to constitute down however overmuch I did successful a week. Twenty E's, 4 grams of coke, six of speed, fractional an ounce of hash, 3 bottles of Jack Daniels, 12 bottles of reddish wine, 60 pints and 280 fags. He looked astatine maine and said: 'No wonderment you're depressed'.'

Early emotion life

Former Hollyoaks prima Kate McEnery, who starred alongside Colin in Ballykissangel, spoke astir his 'bad boy' representation backmost successful 2003.

Despite his estimation arsenic a heartthrob and lothario successful Hollywood, Kate, present 42, insisted helium was successful information a 'lovely, Irish mummy's boy' who needed her assistance being introduced to women.

She told the Sunday Mail successful February 2003: 'He's conscionable a lovely, Irish, mummy's lad - and I mean that successful the nicest way. He loves his household and looks aft them, and arsenic for womanising, that is ne'er Colin.

'He utilized to get maine to bring my friends implicit and present them to him, helium couldn't chat women up - helium was acold excessively shy, and not into each that schmoozing.'

Hollywood debut 

After earning designation connected surface in Ballykissangel, Colin past recovered his large Hollywood interruption in Tigerland successful 2000.

Director Joel Schumacher's movie followed a radical of American soldiers grooming astatine Fort Polk, nicknamed Tigerland, successful Louisiana. 

Colin played Private Roland Bozz, a writer who was drafted contempt his absorption to the warfare and rapidly shows himself to beryllium a earthy leader, uncovering ways to get trainees sent location aft learning they'll beryllium sent to Vietnam aft training.

Following the acclaim of the American warfare play film, Colin earned a stratospheric emergence to fame and rapidly established himself arsenic a starring man.

Though Tigerland was precise good reviewed and led to a drawstring of movie and tv roles for Colin, it earned a dispiriting $148,000 astatine the container bureau against a $10million budget, according to Box Office Mojo.

However, the movie marked an astir overnight entranceway into Hollywood for Colin, who went connected to gain starring roles in Minority Report, Daredevil, The New World and Phone Booth.

Scandalous statements and outrageous behaviour 

After rapidly becoming a Hollywood household name, Colin carved retired a estimation for his outrageous behaviour and scandalous comments.

In his infamous American Playboy interview, helium made precise arguable comments astir women's pubic hairsbreadth and his cause consumption, portion helium besides likened paying for enactment to 'ordering a pizza'.

When helium was quizzed astir his intoxicant and cause use, helium told the publication: 'Heroin is bully successful moderation.'

Already carving retired a estimation for himself, the histrion famously kissed a newsman during an interrogation backmost successful 2003 portion connected the reddish carpet astatine the Swat premiere.

When asked astir the on-camera buss successful a 2017 interrogation with the New York Times, helium said: 'Did I? Who? Which one? I curse to God, I mislaid truthful overmuch time.'

Drug use 

Colin struggled with intoxicant maltreatment and substance addiction for a decennary and became known for his hard-partying manner during his aboriginal career.

Speaking to the Mail On Sunday successful 2010, helium said it 'wasn't hard' to find a radical of strangers with to enactment all-night-long during the tallness of his 2000s fame.

He explained: 'There were a batch of parties successful edifice rooms each astir the world, due to the fact that I had wealth and I was moving connected films, truthful I had a definite magnitude of recognition.

'It wasn't hard to find 20 strangers who wanted to spell backmost to my edifice country till 8 o'clock successful the morning. I often had rooms filled with radical - I had nary thought who they were.

'For years and years I ran up monolithic edifice bills and I conscionable lived to the full; I had what I thought was a flagrant distaste for thing that wasn't the 'Now' - the immortal present.'

In 2013, helium admitted his 'high tolerance' for drugs meant that helium struggled to larn erstwhile to halt due to the fact that helium didn't cognize his limits.

He told The Late Late Show: 'I'd gotten retired of power - for years I could indulge successful definite things ... I had rather a precocious tolerance for assorted drugs for years, I thought.

'It accumulated to the constituent wherever I couldn't enactment my ft connected the brake anymore.'

Reputation arsenic a Hollywood lothario  

Colin became well-known aboriginal successful his vocation for being Hollywood lothario and heartthrob, having a drawstring of flings with celebrated women.

In his romanticist rollercoaster decade, helium was linked to an array of names including Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie, Rosario Dawson, Playboy exemplary Nicole Narain and Dame Eileen Atkins.

Dame Eileen antecedently recalled however Colin tried to seduce her erstwhile she was 69 and helium was 28. 

'I was having nary of it,' she said, 'but it did maine the satellite of bully and helped maine measurement lightly into my 70s. He, successful turn, has gallantly described her arsenic 'the 1 that got away'.

She added of the brushwood connected Loose Women: 'It was axenic bliss and it made maine sail done my 70th day without a attraction successful the world.' 

He besides had a whirlwind 'marriage' to actress Amelia Warner backmost successful 2001. Just 4 months aft they met, they joined connected the land of Tahiti, though it was ne'er legalised.

As a awesome of his love, Colin had Amelia's sanction tattooed onto his ringing finger, but they divided conscionable 4 months later.

She said afterwards of the wedding: 'It was conscionable a happening we did connected holiday.

'We went shark feeding and past we did that. We booked them some connected the activities table astatine the edifice ... It truly wasn't this concealed wedding that nary 1 was invited to.

'It was lovely, it was silly, it was saccharine but by nary means was it a superior happening and I deliberation my mum thought it was rather funny.'

Although their wedding was a joke, the mates were besides engaged to beryllium joined for existent and Amelia was devastated erstwhile they split.

She told The Sun: 'Maybe if we had lasted longer arsenic a couple, we would person legalised it.

'I inactive look backmost astatine that clip with him with specified fondness, I adored Colin, and I ever volition — but we're conscionable bully friends now.'

In 2003, Colin became a begetter to his lad James pursuing a little narration with exemplary Kim Bordenave.

A fewer years aboriginal successful 2009, helium besides welcomed his 2nd kid Henry with his erstwhile girlfriend Alicja Bachleda-Curús.

Colin was besides rumoured to person been dating Rihanna and was connected to Carmen Electra, Lindsay Lohan and Demi Moore, among galore others. 

Colin has besides antecedently opened up astir his improbable relationship with Elizabeth Taylor, who passed distant successful March 2011.

Colin told Access Hollywood: 'I was conscionable fortunate capable to go her person successful the past twelvemonth and a half. I adore her…still.'

He revealed however the brace had met and said: 'How did we go friends? You know, the aged communicative of lad meets girl, and lad pesters miss with excessively galore telephone calls astatine inappropriate hours of the night.'

Dealing with atrocious reviews

Colin's cause addiction took a crook for the worse aft disastrous reviews for 2004's Alexander, which saw him prima alongside Angelina Jolie.

Speaking onstage astatine the Pendulum Summit successful 2019, Colin admitted his 'meteoric rise' to stardom successful his twenties was unsustainable.

After appearing successful Hollywood blockbuster 'flop' Alexander, Colin said helium looked astatine each antagonistic reappraisal of the film available and obsessed implicit its criticism. 

'Alexander was a immense film, a clump of Irish lads playing large roles and we each thought we were each disconnected to Hollywood, and the movie didn't work,' helium said.

'It was an bonzer container bureau flop, I acceptable myself up for a fall, I retrieve saying; 'If this fails, I'm successful trouble, due to the fact that I enactment everything successful this film'.'

Colin admitted that helium went to fell astatine a skis edifice amid his downward spiral aft the movie's release.

He added: 'I went to a skis edifice instantly aft truthful I could deterioration a skis disguise mundane and not beryllium arrested.

'I'd had specified a expansive six oregon 7 years, a meteoric rise, but I didn't marque that, Hollywood made that, it's conscionable astir the hype.

'I needed that lesson, and that humility, I felt similar I fto everyone down, I took it precise personally, I wanted to apologise to everyone I met for six months. As a 23-year-old, of people it affected me.'

Checking into rehab  

Colin went connected to prima successful Miami Vice but erstwhile the remainder of the formed and unit attended a wrapper party, the Irish prima went to rehab centre Crossroads instead.

When helium attended the Miami Vice premiere, helium confessed to not remembering immoderate of the filming.

Speaking of his determination to spell to rehab successful 2006, helium aboriginal said: 'I didn't privation to die, but I didn't privation to unrecorded either.'

When asked if it was harder to spell to rehab due to the fact that of his presumption successful the nationalist eye, helium told the Mail On Sunday: 'Are you joking? No, not for me. I had truthful overmuch successful my beingness erstwhile I came retired of rehab; I'm a lucky, fortunate man.

'I did a movie close afterwards, and I was terrified due to the fact that it was my archetypal clip not drinking since I was 18.'

Returning to spotlight and winning a Golden Globe for In Bruges

Colin returned to the limelight astir 2 years aboriginal successful 2008, appearing connected the screen of Men's Health and becoming the look of a Dolce & Gabbana fragrance.

Following his rehab stint, helium starred in Cassandra's Dream earlier securing a relation successful In Bruges alongside Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes.

And the 2008 transgression drama movie was the crown successful his triumphant return, arsenic helium went connected to unafraid his archetypal ever Golden Globe successful 2009 for his portrayal arsenic Ray. 

The movie was directed by Martin McDonagh and was a deed action-packed, profanity-filled thriller, acceptable successful the Belgian metropolis of Bruges.

In Bruges followed Ray (Farrell), a hitman who botches a occupation and is sent distant to the Belgian metropolis with chap assassin Ken (Gleeson) to hold to beryllium fixed the all-clear from their brag Harry (Fiennes). 

However, Harry isn't keen for Ray to beryllium near to unrecorded aft accidentally sidesplitting a child, truthful helium orders Ken to bash distant with his person present helium has been capable to bask his last days successful the picturesque location.

Ken, realising that Ray's guilt implicit the people of events has near him feeling suicidal, chooses to spell against his brag and alternatively effort and get his Ray to safety, starring to a melodramatic showdown betwixt the trio.

Taking connected supporting roles successful creation films 

Since his triumphant instrumentality to the spotlight, Colin has gone connected to marque a sanction for himself arsenic an acclaimed movie actor, starring successful an array of autarkic creation films.

He appeared successful 2012's Seven Psychopaths and 2015's The Lobster, arsenic good arsenic The Beguiled successful 2017 and subject fabrication play After Yang successful 2021.

Colin besides ventured backmost into blockbuster cinema, but appeared successful secondary roles, including arsenic Percival Graves successful Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and arsenic Penguin successful 2022's The Batman.

2018 rehab stint arsenic a 'preemptive measure'

In 2018, Colin checked into a $36,000-a-month Arizona rehabilitation centre arsenic a 'preemptive measure' to support his sobriety.

A root adjacent to the prima told DailyMail.com astatine the time that helium became 'overwhelmed' pursuing a engaged twelvemonth having completed 3 backmost to backmost films and began getting 'urges' to commencement 'using' again.

But Colin decided to question nonrecreational assistance earlier helium went to a 'bad place', the root added.

The root said: 'He was overwhelmed for the past twelvemonth and the urges started to travel backmost with being truthful engaged astatine enactment and helium felt, eventually, retired of power and thought possibly helium should get up of it earlier helium starts utilizing again.

'He decided to pre-emptively cheque himself successful earlier it went to a atrocious place. He didn't privation to spell down that rabbit spread again.' 

Sixteen years sober  

Colin has been sober for 16 years, since his archetypal admittance to rehab backmost successful 2006 and has been vocal astir his determination to discontinue drinking.

He told the Mail On Sunday: 'Quitting booze was hard initially. Drinking was each I had known successful my big life.

'One time you're surviving a definite mode and past abruptly the adjacent time that full strategy you've built astir yourself is wholly gone. But it gets easier implicit time; you get utilized to not having that crutch.'

Previously discussing his addictions, helium admitted it was hard erstwhile helium yet gave up intoxicant and drugs, and tried to set to beingness without being 'drunk and high'.

He said: 'I began to travel retired of the haze that I was successful and had burrowed myself into truthful deeply.

'Basically, I'd been reasonably drunk oregon precocious since I was 14, truthful it was a pugnacious beingness change, and I was dying. I'm 1 of the fortunate ones.'

Colin said helium 'could ne'er find the handbrake' erstwhile drinking and has described himself astatine that clip arsenic 'out of control'.

Fatherhood 

Colin has antecedently revealed however his 2 sons - James, 19, and Henry, 13 - made him privation to follow a healthier lifestyle.

His eldest son, who suffers from Angelman syndrome, was fathered with exemplary Kim Bordenav, portion Henry's parent is Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, who Colin divided from a twelvemonth aft the commencement of their son.

In 2012, Colin credited his children for his melodramatic alteration successful lifestyle from his chaotic aboriginal days of fame.

He told Men's Health mag that helium underwent a full assemblage overhaul successful bid to 'live arsenic agelong arsenic possible' truthful helium tin spot his sons turn up. 

Colin explained: 'What my archetypal lad James did was let maine to attraction for thing successful this satellite erstwhile I couldn't attraction for myself. James saved my life.'

And speaking astir his steadfast manner compared to his aged habits helium explained: 'I don't enactment the aforesaid level of vigor into steadfast surviving arsenic I did into unhealthy living.'

In 2019, helium besides opened up astir missing his sons erstwhile helium works distant for six months of the year, but said the boys 'got sick of looking astatine him' erstwhile helium enjoyed an extended interruption from films.

Speaking connected the Ellen show, helium said: 'Last twelvemonth I deliberation I worked for astir a month. Gainfully unemployed for astir 11. It was lovely, I was conscionable location with the boys.

'It's hard due to the fact that I question six oregon 7 months of the year. It's pugnacious connected them. It's pugnacious connected me. I miss them truthful much. I conscionable get location and get successful their faces to the constituent they're really sick of looking astatine me. Truly.'

Second Golden Globes victory

After overhauling his lifestyle, Colin has achieved different sensational vocation accomplishment after securing his 2nd Golden Globe.

He picked up the gong for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy for his acclaimed relation successful The Banshees of Inisherin.

He plays Pádraic Súilleabháin successful film, which is centered astir 2 lifelong friends find themselves astatine an impasse erstwhile 1 abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for some of them.

In his acceptance speech, Colin spoke of the captious acclaim levelled astatine the film, which sees him reunite with his In Bruges co-star Brendan Gleeson.

He said: 'To enactment connected this film, I ne'er expect films to enactment oregon to find an assemblage and erstwhile they do, it's shocking to me. I'm horrified by what's happened astir implicit the past mates of months, successful a thrilling benignant of way.'

The Banshees of Inisherin besides scooped Best Picture - Musical/Comedy and Best Screenplay for Martin McDonagh.