{"id":2163339,"date":"2025-11-18T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2163339"},"modified":"2025-11-18T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:00:13","slug":"ballad-of-a-small-player-qa-colin-farrell-edward-berger-volker-bertelmann-on-their-pop-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ballad-of-a-small-player-qa-colin-farrell-edward-berger-volker-bertelmann-on-their-pop-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballad of a Small Player Q&a: Colin Farrell, Edward Berger, & Volker Bertelmann on Their Pop Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Director Edward Berger<\/a> was joined by actor Colin Farrell<\/a> and Oscar-winning composer Volker Bertelmann<\/a> at The Lineup: Live from the Egyptian event for a conversation on their kinetic feature Ballad of a Small Player<\/a>. The film charts the path of gambling addict Lord Doyle as he hides from his past and his present financial hole \u2014 all set in the casinos of Macau against the backdrop of the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts. The trio discussed the bonds that were made before and during filming, how the setting inspired the performances, and the climactic binge scene.<\/p>\n

An edited version of the conversation follows.<\/p>\n

Henry Goldblatt<\/a>: Edward, you\u2019ve proved yourself…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

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

Director Edward Berger was joined by actor Colin Farrell and Oscar-winning composer Volker Bertelmann at The Lineup: Live from the Egyptian event for a conversation on their kinetic feature Ballad of a Small Player. The film charts the path of gambling addict Lord Doyle as he hides from his past and his present financial hole […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2163340,"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-2163339","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\/11\/Ballad-of-a-Small-Player-Qa-Colin-Farrell-Edward-Berger.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163339","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=2163339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163341,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163339\/revisions\/2163341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2163340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}