{"id":2056435,"date":"2025-09-29T00:17:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2056435"},"modified":"2025-09-29T00:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T00:17:24","slug":"colin-farrell-on-his-extraordinary-unearned-good-fortune-from-tigerland-to-the-penguin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/colin-farrell-on-his-extraordinary-unearned-good-fortune-from-tigerland-to-the-penguin\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Farrell on His \u201cExtraordinary, Unearned Good Fortune,\u201d From \u2018Tigerland\u2019 to \u2018The Penguin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In The Ballad of a Small Player, Edward Berger<\/a>\u2019s adaptation of Lawrence Osborne<\/a>\u2019s 2014 novel, Colin Farrell<\/a> plays Lord Doyle, an Irish con man and high roller in Macau whose luck, he fears, may be about to run out. Farrell<\/a>, however, is still on a roll.<\/p>\n

The Irish actor received the Golden Icon Award at the Zurich Film Festival, in recognition of his career achievements and, in a wide-ranging Master Class discussion on Sunday, discussed the \u201cextraordinary, unearned good fortune\u201d that has been his life in cinema.<\/p>\n

Growing up in Dublin, Farrell had no plans to act. \u201cI wanted to be a footballer, a soccer player. I was handy enough,\u201d he recalled. His father had played professionally for Dublin club Shamrock Rovers<\/a> and sports were \u201cthe one way my father and I could have communication and a relationship. It was tricky everywhere else, but when it came to football,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In The Ballad of a Small Player, Edward Berger\u2019s adaptation of Lawrence Osborne\u2019s 2014 novel, Colin Farrell plays Lord Doyle, an Irish con man and high roller in Macau whose luck, he fears, may be about to run out. Farrell, however, is still on a roll. The Irish actor received the Golden Icon Award at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2056436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2056435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Colin-Farrell-on-His-Extraordinary-Unearned-Good-Fortune-From-\u2018Tigerland.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2056436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}