Colin Farrell got into a confrontation with a photographer at the TIFF premiere of his latest film ‘Triage.’

The 33-year-old Irish actor brought his sister, Claudine, who is also his assistant, with him to the event at the Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre Saturday night. According to the Toronto Star, Farrell got miffed when a photographer shouted at Claudine to get off the red carpet. 

The photographer, Joe Alvarez, says Farrell grabbed the back of his neck after he yelled at Farrell’s sister and another woman to move along so that he could photograph the star.

Photographer Jorge Rios told the Star that everyone was yelling, but when Alvarez “screamed ‘Get off the carpet’ everybody stopped.” Then Farrell pointed at Alvarez, “went right up to him and grabbed him by the back of the neck. He said, ‘You don’t yell at my sister like that.’”

Alvarez apologized but Farrell apparently told him “You should not be yelling at any woman like that.”

Alvarez said Farrell overreacted and that he is considering pressing charges.
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