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Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson fix the Oscars and go behind that 'Banshees' ending

Colin Farrell, left, and Brendan Gleeson arrive for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 13th Annual Governors Awards at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles on Nov. 19, 2022.

LOS ANGELES — Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and I have been talking for about an hour — more accurately, they've been talking, I've been listening — when Gleeson asks me if I thought there was a glimmer of hope at the end of their movie, "The Banshees of Inisherin."

Before I can answer, Farrell jumps in. "Brendan Fraser thanks us for that. He actually surprised me. He's the first person that thought there were reparations at the end and that things were going to be OK."

"There you go," Gleeson says, smiling.

"I told him that," Farrell replies. "I said, 'Brendan would f— love to hear that.'" (Farrell would fill up the swear jar by the end of our conversation.)

The ending of "Banshees of Inisherin,"

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