With Heath Ledger’s final film unfinished(“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”) Collin Farrell was asked to finish his role. He did not have such an easy time with this.

“It was a very difficult decision to make, when I first heard about it I totally freaked at the idea,” Farrell told Tarts. “But it was important to get Heath’s work out and doing what I think Heath would have wanted, which was finishing the movie to its entirety.” said Farrell.

Just as the decision wasn’t easy for the Irish actor, it wasn’t easy for the film’s existing stars.

“I don’t know how I feel about it,” Verne “Mini-Me” Troyer hesitantly told Tarts earlier this year. “Part of me thinks maybe it would be better to leave it be (and not replace Ledger).”

But back to Farrell, the “Pride & Glory” star has also battling a demon of his own — alcoholism. The 32-year-old recently came forth and admitted to the BBC that his addiction almost cost him his life.
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