Liam Neeson<\/a> has stated that he wasn\u2019t such a fan of his iconic cellphone scene from Taken\u00a0<\/em>(2008) at first.<\/p>\n The scene sees Neeson\u2019s character Bryan Mills threatening the one that kidnapped his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) over the cellphone, which birthed the well-known line \u201cI have a particular set of skills.\u201d<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n \u201cI certainly did sound scary, but I thought it was corny,\u201d Neeson informed Vanity Fair <\/em><\/a>in a latest interview. \u201cIt was a cornball. I really did feel that. It\u2019s nice to be proven wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n Neeson beforehand informed Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a> in 2020 that on the time, he thought Taken\u00a0<\/em>would grow to be a field workplace flop.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought, \u2018Well, 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,’\u201d he stated. \u201cBut 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.\u201d<\/p>\n That stated, Neeson has additionally beforehand stated that he loved taking pictures\u00a0Taken\u00a0<\/em>and appreciated what number of doorways it opened for his movie profession.<\/p>\n \u201cI had no idea that it would lead onto other films and other action scripts,\u201d Neeson informed the identical publication<\/a> in 2019. \u201cThey started sending me action scripts and you\u2019d see \u2018Leading man, age 37\u2019 crossed out and \u2018late 40s, early 50s\u2019 written in instead. I feel very privileged, and a little bit guilty. I\u2019m having fight scenes with guys half my age and I just can\u2019t stop laughing.\u201d<\/p>\n Neeson just lately made headlines by calling Conor McGregor \u201ca little leprechaun\u201d<\/a>, saying he had given Ireland \u201ca bad name\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"Liam](\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Liam-Neeson-main-new.jpg\")