Colin Farrell has always been hard to pin down. A Hollywood heartthrob one minute, an indie chameleon the next, Farrell spent the last 25 years running full tilt through the industry — from action blockbusters to intimate character dramas, and, more recently, under heavy prosthetics as DC Comics villain Oswald Cobblepot in HBO Max’s “The Penguin.”
But Farrell’s latest role in Edward Berger’s operatic drama “Ballad of a Small Player” might be one of his most personal yet. The Irish actor plays Lord Doyle, a washed-up British gambler stumbling through the neon-lit chaos of Macau, hiding from his past and slipping further into addiction. The film, adapted from Lawrence
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