True Detective Season 2 Latest News and Update: Actor Colin Farrell Previously Accused of Brutal Murder
Colin Farrell was not a murderer, though he took some drugs and was a murder suspect for a while, according to hngn.
On the "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" he made a startling disclosure. During his teens, he was arrested as a suspect and detained for questioning for six hours in a Sydney, Australia police station. And all the while he tried to cajole authorities to believe that he was not the man captured in a pencil sketch.
"I saw a photofit of the guy that actually did the crime and it looked remarkably like me and for a second, because I had had a blackout that night I wondered, 'Could I have done such a thing?'" he said while trying to fool Fallon and his "True Detective" co-star Vince Vaughn in a game called "True Confessions."
In the game, both players questioned a third man and tried to figure out whether he was lying or telling the truth, based on a confession picked up from one of two sealed envelopes.
Each actor was thus given two envelopes, one that contained the truth and the other that was a lie. When one envelope was chosen, the man had to read the statement in it, and the other players could ask questions and come to a conclusion about whether he was telling the truth or not, according to people.
Colin's interrogators hammered him with questions, right from the name of his nightclub at that time to whether he "takes baths or showers."
Vince ribbed that he was "a little nervous to push too hard because we might have a guy who got away with murder here," while Fallon said that Colin was like a serial killer Robert Durst from another well-known series, The Jinx, according to dailymail.
Farrell was indeed telling the truth in a "very" uncomfortable experience, both Fallon and Vaughn guessed.
"I was supposed to bring my mother to the airport - I was in Sydney, Australia. I was called in by the cops and they showed me a photofit of a pencil sketch of the guy that had attempted to murder this other gentlemen. [He'd] beat him up and left him in his own apartment and set the apartment on fire and split, thereby leaving the guy to burn to death. It was me. They said, 'What do you think about that picture?' And I went, 'I think I'm in trouble.'"
He added: "It was terrifying. I was there for about six hours and then thankfully, a friend of mine had kept a journal and that particular night at that particular time, we were at a party on the other side of town doing ecstasy."
