On our screens with Island Spirits, which sees him nominated for an Oscar, Colin Farrell ironically blesses… Justin Bieber? What does it has to do with it? It has to do with fame, contact with reality and how to handle the two things.
He’s at the cinema The spirits of the island Of Martin McDonaghcon Colin Farrell e Brendan Gleesona strong film of nine candidature all’Oscar 2023including that a best leading actor precisely for Farrell, who while chatting with the Hollywood Reporter had nice words for… Justin Bieber? But what does the ex-child star of pop music, an easy target on the net, have to do with it? Coming out of a moment of crisis, Farrell wanted to speak ironically (but not jokingly) about the illusion of easy fame and how it can reduce a young person…
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Second Colin Farrellthat with The spirits of the island has already won a Golden Globe and is now nominated for awards Oscar 2023there is something that binds her experience to that of singer justin bieber, even though the actor is eighteen years older. They don’t operate in the exact same field, but both have experienced the fama when they were very (too much) youngdeluding themselves about their own abilities and having serious repercussions on their own mental balance, when they realized how things were. Farrell has already told that the flop at Alexander and the criticisms leveled at him represented his moment of traumatic breakthroughand all in all praises Bieber’s current state of mind, not without a hint of black humor.
Expectations are a dangerous thing. (Alexander me and Oliver Stone) we had our tuxedos ready… no kidding… and then the movie came out! (…) They were given to me many opportunities, it’s crazy to think how much money I was given, the keys to everything. And that’s why, when I heard that years ago Justin Bieber he threw eggs at his neighbor, I said to myself: “He deserves a medal for everything he’s doing.” Did he race like crazy in his car on Ocean Drive? I say to myself: “If that’s all it combinesthis little boy is doing of his best to be a good person”. (…) I have been enough fortunatobecause I was given the opportunity to rediscover simplicity which should always be at the root of my profession.
