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All About Colin

By Ciaran Carty, Contributor
June / July 2001

June 1, 2001 by 5 Comments

In a street café in Prague's Old Town, 24-year-old Colin Farrell is having a coffee with Bruce Willis. It's a few days before they face up as adversaries in Hart's War, a war drama that Gregory Hoblitt, who also directed Primal Fear and Frequency, is shooting on location in the wooded hills outside the Czech capital. The former Communist bloc country is now a little Hollywood, … [Read more...] about All About Colin

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