Colin Farrell 'just gave it a shot' in America
Colin Farrell has opened up about his move to the US in the late 90s.
Colin Farrell felt ready to "step into uncertainty" when he moved to America.
The 49-year-old actor enjoyed success as a TV actor in the UK in the late 90s, but Colin ultimately decided to follow his dreams in Hollywood.
Colin - who starred in the BBC drama series Ballykissangel in the 90s - told Extra: "I was in drama school. I did theater school for a year in Dublin and I got a job doing a television show and I left theater school and I did the television show.
"I did two years. I worked with a bunch of amazing actors, and they offered me a third year and I went to the producer and I said, 'I’m not going to take it,' and he said, 'Why? Did you get another job? Do you have another gig?'
"I said, ‘No, I’m just going to … get on a plane, go over to America and just give it a shot.'"
Colin always wanted to become an actor. However, the Dublin-born star previously confessed that he finds it "hard and frustrating" at the same time.
Asked how he got into acting, Colin told Interview magazine: "I always wanted to do it.
"My sister would be up at two o’clock in the morning watching black-and-white movies on TV, and I’d stay up and watch them with her - Hitchcock and stuff. But I was drinking and smoking and getting lazy, and I thought, maybe it’s time to try acting and see if I like it. I did a couple of classes at the National Performing Arts School in Ireland, and I loved it.
"I find it hard and frustrating as well. I don’t find acting therapeutic and I don’t hide behind it by changing into this person or that person. I don’t deal with y problems through it. It’s just a huge challenge."
Colin observed that, for him, "acting is just a good thing".
Asked whether acting fills a need for him, Colin replied: "It must fulfil something, but I’m not aware of any void or emptiness. Acting is just a good thing."
