Farrell: 'Weight Loss Is Healthy'
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Bosnian director Danis Tanovic (R) and Irish actor Colin Farrell attend a news conference to present the film "Triage" in Alicante May 14, 2008.
Actor Colin Farrell has sparked fears for his health after he appeared at a press conference looking alarmingly gaunt. However, he insists he's merely losing weight for a film role.
Farrell, 31, shocked reporters when he showed up to promote his upcoming movie "Triage," in which he plays a war reporter in 1990s Bosnia, during a trip to Spain. (
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He tells People.com, "I lost weight because my role demanded it. It was all very healthy."
The Irish actor did not elaborate as to how he lost the weight, instead quoting a line from the Scott Anderson novel on which the movie is based: "He went to the bathroom to shave. Once his beard was gone, he saw that his face had become drawn. He pressed at the hollows beneath his eyes, the pronounced nubs of his cheek bones."
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