COL: NEW MOVIE LEFT ME WITH DEPRESSION
COLIN Farrell has revealed he was left “depressed” after filming dark scenes for new film The Killing Of A Sacred Deer. The Dubliner admitted the movie left him feeling “totally down” – but that wouldn’t stop him from doing it again. Farrell, 41, said: “I was depressed by the end of it. “We shot in continuity so the sense of dread you may have experienced in watching was, in a different way, experienced in doing it.”
Farrell stars as a surgeon called Steven whose world is changed for the worse when a troubled teenager, played by Irish actor Barry Keoghan, works his way into his life.
The psychological thriller, which has been tipped for Oscar glory, features twisted scenes where Farrell’s character is left with an impossible decision about the future of his kids.
The star – who has sons James, 14 and eightyear-old Henry – said: “Some have suggested it must have been harder being a father but I was kind of going, ‘Not really, if I wasn’t a dad I’d like to think that I’d be just as disturbed’.”
Speaking to the London Evening Standard, Farrell also told how he didn’t relate to his character – particularly when it came to his relationship with his wife, played by Nicole Kidman.
He said: “The marriage they have is so far from anything I could ever conceive of having ever, if I could conceive of myself marrying.”