Colin Farrell has admitted what producers of probably already knew: He’s overpaid.
The bad-boy Irish actor was reportedly paid $15 million for playing the lead in the box office flop, and now the star is saying he gets more money than he should. “The money I get paid — you couldn’t do enough work in a lifetime to get paid the money that I got paid for certain gigs when I shoot for four or five months,” Farrell told the Sydney Daily Telegraph. “No matter how much I break my bollocks and work my arse off, you can’t explain it.” Alexander was estimated to cost $150 million and took in less than $15 million on its opening weekend.”
Farrell admitted that he was angst-filled and lonely while shooting the flick, and missed his son. “I was in tears, in the desert in Morocco but I don’t know which that was. It was happiness but it was also sadness and I wanted to be [with his son, who was born in September] and there was disgust that I wasn’t there,” he said. “Happiness is a strange idea. It’s a dream. It’s something that when we experience it, it’s very acute but it’s fleeting, I think. I’m sure there are people that live in happiness and are completely content all the time — I’m not one of them.”
When asked what should be on his tombstone, Farrell’s mood perked up a bit, and he replied: “What a trip. I hope you have as much fun as I did.”
Brolin's brushes with the law
Josh Brolin’s arrest for allegedly hitting wife Diane Lane isn’t the star’s first brush with the law.
The actor, who was arrested at his Los Angeles home Sunday on charges of hitting his wife of four months, was arrested in the 1980s for an incident he later refused to discuss.
“I don’t want kids reading about it,” he told Cosmopolitan magazine in 1996, declining to elaborate beyond saying that it he engaged in “very rageful kinds of things.”
“Apparently, he had a lot of anger after his parents divorced,” a source tells The Scoop. “His [late] mother was a very complicated woman.”
Notes from all over
Some of the last concert footage of Ol’ Dirty Bastard was sold on eBay for $100,000, reports AllHipHop.com. “The video allegedly shows ODB smoking minutes before appearing on stage and then performing in unstable condition, and footage of him traveling back to his motel where he continues to smoke crack, the seller stated in the listing,” reports the site. ODB, whose real name was Russell Jones, died November 13 from an accidental overdoes of cocaine and a prescription painkiller. . . . Scientologists have been giving harried but unsuspecting New Yorkers “stress tests” in front of subways, reports Cultnews.com, which suggests that John Travolta’s favorite religion may be using the tests as a recruiting tool. . . . Paris the Heiress Hilton and best friend Nicole Richie learned a valuable lesson from doing “The Simple Life 3.” “We would not like to work 9 to 5,” Richie told Star magazine. “It’s not even 9 to 5. It’s like 6 to 6!” The worst part of living the other life, according to Paris: “The bathroom [on a Greyhound bus]. It smelled really bad and there was no mirror!”
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