Colin Farrell has admitted that despite the "lukewarm reception" given to the second series of the crime drama True Detective he still hotly praises for his time working on the show.
The 40-year-old Irish actor, who played the part of corrupt cop Ray Velcoro on the HBO series, reveals he enjoyed taking on such a challenging character and says the "experience was incredible".
“I loved doing True Detective. And I had a real love for that character. As a man, he was the human equivalent of an old, beaten down pair of shoes.
"He was born of an America that was part of a bygone era. A very conflicted character, too. There was a lot of really humane issues at play and he had a lot of incredibly dramatic scenes I got to jump in and play around with.
"I know the reception was lukewarm – the first season was so strong across the board and there were so many expectations – but the experience was incredible," Farrell told The Los Angeles Times.
Farrell, who is currently starring in Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them also opened up about his much panned role in Oliver Stone's 2004 movie flop, Alexander, in which Angelina Jolie played his mother. Seriously.
“Alexander was a once in a lifetime experience. It was so big in scope and reach and ambition and epic quality. It had an incredible filmmaker (Oliver Sone) and an incredible cast and script.
"And yet somehow it was not what people wanted it to be or what people expected it to be. It got thrashed critically and publicly. But more importantly the experience of shooting it was extraordinary.
Many of the supporting cast on Alexander were also Irish, including Mick Lally, John Kavanagh and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, a deliberate casting decision by Stone. Naturally of course it led to highjinks.
"It was a cast of mostly male actors getting up to all sorts of nonsense at night and working really hard during the day, in all these exotic locales", he said.
"It feels like it was a very significant chapter in all our lives even though it didn’t work out commercially or financially. I would do it all over again.”
