Colin Farrell talks Winter’s TalePosted by Wilson Morales
February 13, 2014
Coming out this week is the Winter’s Tale, which marks the directorial debut from Academy Award winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (“A Beautiful Mind”) and starring Colin Farrell (“Saving Mr. Banks”), Jessica Brown Findlay (TV’s “Downton Abbey”), Russell Crowe (“Gladiator”,“A Beautiful Mind”), Jennifer Connelly (“A Beautiful Mind”), William Hurt ( “Broadcast News”) and Eva Marie Saint (“On the Waterfront”).
Based on the acclaimed novel by Mark Helprin and set in a mythic New York City and spanning more than a century, “Winter’s Tale” is a story of miracles, crossed destinies, and the age-old battle between good and evil.
While promoting the film at a recent press conference, held in New York City, here are some of the highlighted statements from Farrell as he talked about his experience on the film.
What did you enjoy most in the making of this film?
Colin Farrell: I thought that creating that scene, where there’s an authentically profound sense of human touch, was special, and I loved working with Eva Marie Saint. I was aware of her works since my early teens and I cherish the opportunity to work with actors who have had such rich experience in the industry, Eva Marie worked with Kazan, Hitchcock, and I love her to the bones simply as a human being.
Do you think love is sometimes overrated which is why we sometimes need Valentines Day to remind us of it?
Colin Farrell: Overrated no, possibly underrated the importance of it and how its prevalence in a singles persons life or in the life of a shared community. It can make incredible changes and can promote the idea of peace and harmony within a society or within a persons’ individual existence. I think love has to be the one thing, it seems, that defines us as human beings our ability to care for each other. Our ability to demonstrate through acts of compassion a concern for your fellow man. Valentines Day I don’t even know what that’s about. It’s an excuse, its whatever you make it. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with flowers and chocolate but it shouldn’t take such a commercially promoted holiday for people to extend themselves with gestures of love. Yeah, I think love is what makes its really all spin.
How was filming the love scene?
CF: Maybe its awfully sleazy of me but I do think that human touch in whatever form it comes in as long as that form is one that is mutually compassionate and respectful, is a really gorgeous thing. So what it is an atmosphere of absolute artifice and its not romantic and its never going to be sexy if two people who are involved in it are on the same page, taking care of each other, there are worse days in the office.
In what way can you relate to the character?
CF: That I’m ok. That it has solidified a suspicion that I already had, that I think I’m okay with life being defined more by mystery than certainty, because certainty had done nothing but get me into a lot of trouble. My own certainty and my own ideals, my own attachments, I’m ok. You know, the older I get reaching and hoping and aspiring to know less and less and less.
“Winter’s Tale” opens nationwide on Valentines Day, Friday February 14th.
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