Walk around South William Street on Dublin’s southside on any day of the week and you’ll see countless lads dressed exactly like Colin Farrell. There’s no doubting that the Castleknock native has had a huge influence on the type of clothes men around the world wear, but more specifically Ireland – obviously his home turf. Countless bushy-eyebrowed Irish males have hit paydirt with the ladies on an international scale thanks mainly to Farrell. You don’t need to look too much like him, lads, just the accent is enough.
There has always been something accessible about Colin Farrell; sure, he looks like a cross between an in-his-prime Russell Crowe and Brad Pitt, but the image he always projected was that of a young, typical Dub who got lucky. Getting lucky was making $10 million a movie and getting stuck into every single lady in Hollywood with an agent and a heartbeat. He was doing what men everywhere wished they could – live the dream. He was also refreshingly frank about the whole thing and never professed to be squeaky clean, which only added to his charm.
Farrell’s style is unique to him because he is one of the few people who can pull it off. When you see the type of shape that he got into for the recent Total Recall remake, you realise that, like a lot of style icons featured already, pretty much anything would look good on him. But Farrell is a more brooding sort, and his style is almost bohemian. You’ll find him wearing random stetson hats with slick suit jackets and ankle boots; you won’t see many lads at football matches wearing this type of clobber but the fashion conscious ones might have a bash.
Farrell’s career hasn’t always shone and has had its fair share of ups and downs; but he’s remained a true movie star to this day. As Ari Gold says to his star client Vinny Chase in the brilliant TV show Entourage, “it’s because he acts like a movie star.”
For getting Irishmen everywhere lucky and generally being cool as hell, Colin Farrell JOE salutes you.
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