Colin Farrell Casually Confessed To Being An Old Suspect In An Australian Attempted Murder Case

After weeks of exhausting interviews, profiles and public appearances to promote a new film or TV show, most major actor’s press tour will usually end with a fun guest spot on The Tonight Show. Just this week, Alan Rickman inhaled helium and talked about Professor Snape as a way of plugging his new period drama. It doesn’t have to make any sense.

This was the plan last night as Jimmy Fallon hung out with Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn, the stars of the latest season of True Detective which premieres this week. Fallon set up a fun little game called ‘True Confessions’ in which each guy tries to convince the others of a strange story about their life. Vaughn confessed to starring in a stage production of The King and I (a totally believable thing for an experienced actor), Fallon confessed to getting his head stuck in a fence (also believable as he’s the human equivalent of an excitable Jack Russell), and Farrell told a story about real-life murder.

The porn-stached lead actor claimed he was once a suspect in an attempted murder case in Sydney where a man had been severely assaulted and left for dead in a burning apartment. After that, he then needlessly confessed to a drug offence.

If the first episode of True Detective is half as interesting as that, I’ll totally be on board.

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While we’re here, let’s check in on how the female stars of the show are going on their press tour.

After the show’s first season was heavily criticised for its treatment of female characters, there’s been much excitement about the casting of a woman as a main detective. Rachel McAdams had a great interview with Marie Clare about this where she talked about how refreshing it is she’s not playing someone’s wife or girlfriend. However, she’s still facing off against rumours about which male actors were into her on set.

Elsewhere, the other main female cast members Adria Arjona and Leven Rambin just did an interview with GQ detailing who they’d fuck, marry and kill from the first season of the show, before posing for this photoshoot:

Though it hasn’t yet been revealed who their characters are, we do know they don’t appear in a single scene together. So, y’know, this and the five other photos of them undressing each other, make even less sense than you first thought.

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The second season of True Detective premieres June 21 in the US (which is this Monday for us). Watch the trailer here.