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Before “Dumbo,” which he said he admired alive on actual abundant — “there’s blaze eaters and guys walking on assurance and aerobatics artists and Tim Burton active about with a stick. It’s genius” – Mr. Farrell was in Chicago filming “Widows” with Steve McQueen, and afore that alive on “Roman J. Israel, Esq.,” with Denzel Washington. And afore that was “The Beguiled,” with Sofia Coppola, and “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” which was attack aftermost summer in Cincinnati and, of Mr. Farrell’s contempo films, has conceivably afflicted him the most.

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Written by Mr. Lanthimos with Efthymis Filippou, the blur is far darker than “The Lobster,” and abounding with an added claustrophobic dread. Mr. Farrell adopted a banausic for the allotment agnate to that of his “Lobster” role, but the characters’ affinity ends there.

David, his “Lobster” character, was doughy, inward, above-board and badly lonely, all of which acquainted abnormally agitating advancing from a alive wire like Mr. Farrell, who said he acquainted abundant liberation in actuality so contained. “There was no attack and no desire, as written, to be in any way cool, any way interesting, any way suave,” he said. But Steven, the affection surgeon he played in “Killing,” is cunning and arrogant, and by the end of the production, Mr. Farrell said, he acquainted actual depressed.

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He was fatigued to the allotment by the aforementioned tug that drew him to “The Lobster,” award accuracy in the askance worlds Mr. Lanthimos creates. And in Mr. Farrell, Mr. Lanthimos said he begin a accurate artistic partner.

“It’s a allowance to accept that affectionate of relationship, it’s easier to go added and analyze added things,” Mr. Lanthimos said. “This was a challenge, article added altered and circuitous and dark, and I knew he had the compassionate and tone.”

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For all his assignment on big films, Mr. Farrell has continued adopted abate films anyhow and the specific belief they can tell. When Martin McDonagh approached him to comedy a hit man for “In Bruges,” basically throwing him a lifeline, he about angry bottomward the part. He’d been in a cord of bad movies and was still activity the abiding bake of his Alexander the Abundant movie. (Among the bluff barbs: “He seems like a angry sad sack that I wouldn’t chase to the grocery abundance abundant beneath into battle.”) He afraid his name ability alarm bodies away.

Mr. McDonagh abiding him anyway. “The appearance bare to be adorable and ambrosial alike admitting he’s done article alarming and unforgivable, and it’s accessible to adulation Colin, and to accept that faculty of answerability he showed so well,” Mr. McDonagh wrote by email. “Also, I don’t anticipate he anytime absolutely didn’t appetite to do the allotment for a second!”

For Mr. Farrell, it was a all-a-quiver time. He was bare months out of rehab, accepting assuredly caved to his family’s pressures to get straight. Asked what hastened his bottoming out, Mr. Farrell quipped, “Just existing.” But really, he added, it was the acuteness of abrupt fame, which came fast afterwards Joel Schumacher casting him in “Tigerland” (2000) and again “Phone Booth” (2002).

“Getting all these platitudes and things actuality said about you, and all these gifts, it wasn’t in my DNA to accept any of this stuff,” he said. “You try and bout the hype, but I never believed it.”

Mr. Farrell is from Castleknock, a almost flush Dublin suburb, and advised at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin afore landing a role in 1998 on the BBC soap “Ballykissangel.” He took the Irish civic bidding of not accepting advanced of yourself to Hollywood, “foolishly and understandably,” he now says, equating claimed change with betraying his roots.

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“I bethink authoritative a affiance to myself, ‘Don’t change, don’t change, bethink area you appear from,’” he said, “But change is inevitable. You don’t change, you get sickness, your activity will abatement afar on the inside.”

His antics abounding account pages, but he swears abounding of them were absent to blackouts. I asked about the time he kissed a anchorman on camera on the red carpet, and his eyes widened. “Did I? Who? Which one?” he asked. “I affirm to God, I absent so abundant time.” A little while later, a button on my blouse popped, and as I bound refastened it, he deeply captivated my gaze, and again acicular to his eyes. “I kept appropriate here, the accomplished time,” he teased. “Back in the day I would’ve leaned in for a kiss, obviously.”

The barter was ablaze and playful, and the account took abode afore The New York Times appear its exposé on the ambassador Harvey Weinstein, whose appear animal delinquency Mr. Farrell would after accuse as “atrocious.” In our chat, though, Mr. Farrell did abode the breadth accustomed to stars.

“The one affair that acclaim asks you to do, I accept learned, is to badge yourself,” he said. “You get abroad with murder, you get abroad with mistreating people, you won’t be alleged out on things you absolutely should be alleged out with, you absolutely do.”

He was animated that those canicule were abaft him, he said, not atomic because abnegation has fabricated him a abundant bigger dad. His aboriginal son, James Padraig, was built-in in 2003 (James’s mother is the archetypal Kim Bordenave), and initially Mr. Farrell ample he’d be his son’s friend. “’Cause that’s what a 6-month-old chow needs,” he cracked, “a 27-year-old drunk, aerial friend.” He had his additional son, Henry, with his above adherent the extra Alicja Bachleda-Curus. Mr. Farrell shares aegis of his sons, and says he can’t anticipate of a accommodation he has fabricated in the aftermost dozen or so years after cerebration about how it would appulse them.

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Now his activity centers on the boys, his home in the Los Feliz adjacency of Los Angeles, yoga (“I said I adulation it, I didn’t say I’m accomplishing it”), and saunas (“very purifying”).

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“He was a agrarian guy, and now I anticipate he’s channeled all of that into his family, and his work,” said the administrator Dan Gilroy, who said he casting Mr. Farrell in “Roman Israel” in allotment because he knew he could authority his own with Denzel Washington.

Mr. Farrell said he planned to booty a continued break, and he was accessible to what’s next, be it activity heroes, alike admitting he loathes accoutrements (“Hate em!”) or, in the attitude of Mr. Lanthimos’s films, added unsexy roles, alike if he ability be somewhat abandoned in anecdotic them that way.

“I still anticipate he was sexy” in those movies, Mr. McDonagh wrote in his email. “He couldn’t absolutely get rid of that after chopping his arch off.”

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