Sugar star Colin Farrell says he had never read anything like the new detective drama before: "There was this kind of innocence"

Sugar star Colin Farrell talks his first reaction to the script – and what made him sign on to the role.

"My first reaction was that it was just a little bit different. I hadn't had the opportunity to read anything like it ever. The character was felt quite unique in that it was obviously exploring the noir genre as a whole. The piece, the narrative, the style of it, the fact that it was set in Los Angeles, the world that explores the idea that the central character was a private detective," Farrell tells GamesRadar+. 

"But there was this kind of innocence to John Sugar as much as he at times gets embroiled in violence, he has a disdain for violence and as much as he's been exposed to some of the darker aspects of the human experience through trafficking and kidnapping, he has this kind of unbridled sense of hope and belief in the goodness of human beings, which I thought was really quite sweet and engaging."

Sugar, a Los Angeles-based Private Investigator, is tasked with solving the disappearance of a woman named Olivia Siegel, the beloved granddaughter of Hollywood producer Johnathan Siegel. The case takes him on a deep dark path – in which hidden truths are uncovered.

Farrell continues: "When I read it, you know, and I knew that Los Angeles was gonna be such an essential character and I did wanna work from home as well. I thought it'll be nice not to have to leave LA [or] leave my kids and be able to be home here shooting this for six months. So it was all those things combined. And then when I heard Fernando Meirelles was gonna be directing it, I just thought, oh, that's a major scoop."

The eight-episode limited series was conceived by the I Am Legend screenwriter Mark Protosevich and directed by Fernando Meirelles, Protosevich, Donald Joh (Snowpiercer), David Rosen, and Breaking Bad writer Sam Catlin. The mystery-drama also stars Kirby, Amy Ryan, Dennis Boutsikaris, Nate Corddry, Sydney Chandler, Anna Gunn, James Cromwell, and Miguel Sandoval.

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