Liam Neeson has stated that he wasn’t such a fan of his iconic cellphone scene from Taken (2008) at first.
The scene sees Neeson’s character Bryan Mills threatening the one that kidnapped his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) over the cellphone, which birthed the well-known line “I have a particular set of skills.”
The actor has stated quite a few occasions through the years that he by no means anticipated the motion movie, which spawned two sequels in 2012 and 2014, to be as profitable with followers because it really was.
“I certainly did sound scary, but I thought it was corny,” Neeson informed Vanity Fair in a latest interview. “It was a cornball. I really did feel that. It’s nice to be proven wrong.”
Neeson beforehand informed Entertainment Weekly in 2020 that on the time, he thought Taken would grow to be a field workplace flop.
“I thought, ‘Well, this is going to go straight-to-video. A short little European thriller, it might play okay for a couple weeks in France and then it will go straight-to-video,’” he stated. “But Fox took it and they very cleverly did a good trailer and put it during various sporting events around the country and they made it a real success. I remember the first weekend it came in at No. 3, and then it came up to No. 2 and then No. 1, and then it went down to No. 4, and it came up to No. 3 again. It just had this extraordinary cycle.”
That stated, Neeson has additionally beforehand stated that he loved taking pictures Taken and appreciated what number of doorways it opened for his movie profession.
“I had no idea that it would lead onto other films and other action scripts,” Neeson informed the identical publication in 2019. “They started sending me action scripts and you’d see ‘Leading man, age 37’ crossed out and ‘late 40s, early 50s’ written in instead. I feel very privileged, and a little bit guilty. I’m having fight scenes with guys half my age and I just can’t stop laughing.”
Neeson just lately made headlines by calling Conor McGregor “a little leprechaun”, saying he had given Ireland “a bad name”.