Colin Farrell Was Warned That He Was Wasting His Time Trying To Be An Actor After He Was Rejected From A Boyband For Not Being Talented Enough

He first burst onto the celebrity scene in the early ‘00s, where he quickly earned a reputation as Hollywood’s bad boy thanks to his excessive partying and red carpet antics, such as kissing a reporter mid-interview. 

In addition to Banshees, Colin has starred in a whole host of critically acclaimed movies, including The Lobster, In Bruges, and Phone Booth, but it has now been revealed that his life could have taken another path entirely. 

Louis is currently participating in the UK series of Celebrity Big Brother, and spoke out about his personal relationship with Colin during Wednesday’s episode of the show.

“I’m good friends with, [do] you know Colin Farrell?” he asked his costars. “I know him very well because he auditioned for Boyzone and stuff, and he told me he wanted to be an actor.”

“I knew him from Dublin,” Louis continued. “But he said to me: ‘Oh, I want to be an actor anyway,’ he said to me when I said to him: ‘You can’t sing, I can’t give you the gig.’”

His breakout movie roles came along in 2002, when both Minority Report and Phone Booth were released.

In a rant with Louis, who she previously worked with on the UK series of The X Factor, she accused James Corden of name-dropping before calling Anna Wintour “a c-word.”

“He constantly, constantly throws out names,” Sharon said of James. “When he got to America, he played the LA game really well.”

“Kissing all the right people,” Louis agreed, making kissing noises as he mocked: “Anna Wintour! Mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah.”

“Oh, she loves him,” Sharon replied before shadily asking: “But who loves Anna Wintour? I think she’s a c-word.”

“Yeah, she is,” Louis agreed, adding: “And Ellen DeGeneres,” to which Sharon made a gagging noise.

She also ridiculed Simon for “wearing the same thing for almost three decades,” and said she wouldn’t work with him again for “all the money in the world.”