HOLLYWOOD -- The new movie, "Ballad of a Small Player," takes us into the world of high-stakes gambling, just not in Las Vegas. Farrell plays a gambler who's found his way to Macau, known as the Las Vegas of Asia.

"Being in the chaos of Macau and being in the superficiality of Macau and the constant bombardment of the senses, both the volume and the aesthetics of that place and the empty promises of great fortunes and stuff. It really-I leaned into the environment a lot," said Farrell.

His past and his losses are both closing in on him-fast!

"His journey in this is so dramatic, it's so heightened and he is close to death throughout the telling of this story, it did feel more foreign to me than somebody-from somebody from the outside looking in could understandably think," said Farrell.

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