Colin Farrell’s newest film Ballad of a Small Player sees him give a frantic, exhausting and perhaps even career-best performance which left him ‘wrecked’ at the end of every day.

The Irish Oscar nominee, 49, plays a flamboyant but desperate expat, drowning in debt in the casinos of Macao in Netflix’s latest psychological thriller, directed by Conclave filmmaker Edward Berger and co-starring Tilda Swinton, Fala Chen and Alex Jennings.

It looks like the type of performance that took everything out of him and is stressful even to watch.

‘You don’t want to talk about it being hard because I live in the world, I see how hard it is – I know, I’ve seen my pay cheque, all that stuff,’ Farrell begins, carefully, to Metro. ‘Having said all that, if you give yourself over to the script as you sho

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