Good news for all the men out there that actually like to chew their food and swallow it, Colin Farrell sucks in his stomach too.

Keeping with the great movie star tradition of Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster and company, rather than go to the gym and pump some iron, fun loving Irish drunk Farrell would rather just hold his breath for as long as it takes for the camera to pan past.

“I get no kicks from going to the gym.” coughed Farrell after another swig of Guinness. “It doesn’t do it for me. Never has. Some people enjoy working out. But that’s never done it for me.”

Top man, Mr. Farrell. With this newly acquired permission to go and get drunk in elasticised trousers (read between the lines) all the guys’ll happily join you down the pub for a couple of beers. You’re paying of course. 

But silly you, Mr. Brad Pitt, you could’ve done Fight Club in a vest. You too, Christian Bale. Why starve yourself to death for The Machinist? Don’t suffer for your art, it is supposed to be ACTING after all.

“In the past, I’d breathe in heavily between takes. I sucked it in and did a take. That way it doesn’t hurt the beer consumption at all.” Farrell mumbled, on his way to the emergency room no doubt.

Let’s hope he remembers all this stuff when he hits forty (inches?) and that famously insatiable charisma drops out of his underpants.

‘Battle of the Bulge’? He is currently doing a big screen version of Miami Vice as the Don Johnson character. Another man that missed the skinny boat by a good ten minutes. Still, at least it hasn’t affected his career.

Check out Farrell’s ‘suckmotion’ in SWAT. Only eight quid at Amazon.

And get yourself to Imdb for all the latest on Miami Vice.