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Colin Farrell talks Winter’s Tale<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

February 13, 2014<\/p>\n

\"Winter's<\/a>Coming out this week is the Winter’s Tale<\/strong>, which marks the directorial debut from Academy Award winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman<\/strong> (\u201cA Beautiful Mind\u201d) and starring Colin Farrell<\/strong> (\u201cSaving Mr. Banks\u201d), Jessica Brown Findlay<\/strong> (TV\u2019s \u201cDownton Abbey\u201d), Russell Crowe<\/strong> (\u201cGladiator\u201d,\u201cA Beautiful Mind\u201d), Jennifer Connelly<\/strong> (\u201cA Beautiful Mind\u201d), William Hurt <\/strong>( \u201cBroadcast News\u201d) and Eva Marie Saint<\/strong> (\u201cOn the Waterfront\u201d).<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\"Colin<\/a>What did you enjoy most in the making of this film?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colin Farrell:<\/strong> I thought that creating that scene, where there\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Do you think love is sometimes overrated which is why we sometimes need Valentines Day to remind us of it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colin Farrell:<\/strong> 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\u2019 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\u2019t even know what that\u2019s about. It\u2019s an excuse, its whatever you make it. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything wrong with flowers and chocolate but it shouldn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

\"Colin<\/a>How was filming the love scene?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CF:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

In what way can you relate to the character?<\/strong><\/p>\n

CF:<\/strong> That I\u2019m ok. That it has solidified a suspicion that I already had, that I think I\u2019m 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\u2019m ok. You know, the older I get reaching and hoping and aspiring to know less and less and less.<\/p>\n

“Winter’s Tale” opens nationwide on Valentines Day, Friday February 14th.<\/strong><\/p>\n