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After a few years out of the spotlight, Colin Farrell is back with a major blockbuster. He talks life after rehab and fatherhood with Will Lawrence.

COLIN Farrell is feeling philosophical. “Take a man’s desire,” he muses, “take a 65-year-old man’s desire to sleep with as many younger women as he can, like women who are 25 or 30. Is that born of desire or fear?”

It’s probably born of a Viagra prescription. “Right,” he laughs. “That’s desire, but is it perhaps born of fear, a fear of mortality, or of not being attractive enough? I have a great respect for the amount of fear that as a man I have in my life, whatever that fear might be.”