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Farrell roles as a supporting actor include his performances as an ambitious cop opposite Tom Cruise, a potential criminal in Minority Report ( 2002 ), and as the skilled villain Bullseye in Daredevil ( 2003 ).

Matt Damon was originally offered the Minority Report role but he turned it down to appear in Ocean's Eleven.

Farrell said " he had no problem " that people knew he was the producer's fall back pick after Damon declined.

The character of Bullseye is that of an assassin with perfect accuracy and deep-rooted pride of it.

Farrell was attached to this role in December 2001, though initially he was considered for the lead role as Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil, until Ben Affleck signed.

Farrell was encouraged to keep his Irish accent as this version of Bullseye is from Ireland.

Farrell had to read into Frank Miller's Daredevil comics to understand Bullseye " because the expression on the character's faces in the comic books, and just the way they move sometimes, and the exaggerations of the character I'm playing he's so over-the-top that you do draw from that.

But it's not exactly a character you can do method acting for ... you know, running around New York killing people with paper clips.