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Colin Farrell considers Elizabeth Taylor the "last kind of romantic relationship" he had and says he wanted to be husband number eight. "I just adored her," the Saving Mr. Banks actor told Ellen Degeneres when he stopped by her daytime talk show on Monday, Dec. 16. The actor's unique friendship with the Hollywood icon started up when the two met at Cedars Sinai Hospital. Farrell, now 37, was there for the birth of his second son, Henry, while the National Velvet actress was in the hospital for a heart stent. After running into her manager in the hospital's hallway, the Irish actor reached out to the actress and activist. "I said, 'Will you tell her I said hello, she probably won't know who I am,'" Farrell told Degeneres. "And they go, 'No, she knows who you are,' and I went, 'Wow, cool. Well, tell her I said hello and I wish her the best,' and they said, 'Will do.'"