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Colin Farrell on Joining Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix as Comic Book Villain Golden Globe Winners: ‘I Don’t Feel Like I’m Part of That Pantheon’


Colin Farrell joins Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix as actors who have won a Golden Globe for playing comic book villains.

When asked in the Globes press room about joining the ranks of Heath Ledger and Joaquin Phoenix, who were both previously honored for their portrayals of the infamous DC baddie the Joker in “The Dark Knight” and “Joker,” Farrell was effusive in his praise. “You mentioned two actors who are, I think, for my money, two of the most extraordinarily talented and gifted and just brilliant artists in films that I’ve ever had the fortune to observe and be affected by. They really have been incredibly generous to me” — and then added a quip that might give the kudocast pause, given its troubled history: “One would think there was a fix.

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