Date 01/11/2017 - News People
Colin Farrell took "five or six days off" after filming the thriller 'Killing of a Sacred Deer' because he felt down due to the movie's "bleak core". The 41-year-old actor stars as surgeon Steven Murphy in the new psychological thriller by Yorgos Lanthimos and Farrell admits the role got to him and part of the problem was he couldn't escape his character when he wasn't on set because he had to grow a beard for the part. Speaking to the Metro, Farrell said: "...honest to God, by the end of this film I was down. Part of that was to do with the beard. Some people love beards, for sure, but it really weighed me down. But mostly it was the tone of the film. It's just bleak to its core."