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  • Liam Neeson: Hesitant About Doing Another “Phone Call” Movie

    The 62-year-old star of Taken and Taken 2 revealed that he was hesitant about doing the movie A Walk Among The Tombstones because he didn’t want to do another action role that similar to something he had already done in the past.

    “I thought, ‘Here we go, here’s another f**king telephone call, talking to the bad guys.’ So there was this huge question mark before taking it on,” Neeson told Empire Magazine.

    Neeson is well known for his role in the Taken movie franchise, where he tries to save his kidnapped daughter. In the movie, he talks to the kidnappers on the phone and says the line, “I will find you and I will kill you.” The scene has boosted his popularity among young moviegoers, including his two sons Micheal and Daniel.

    “I have recorded a special voicemail [with Taken quotes] so many times for my kids! And they have to prompt me on the lines, because I forgot them, which is a little embarrassing!” he told Australia radio hosts Kyle and Jackie O. in an interview.

    In A Walk Among The Tombstones, which is based on the 1992 crime thriller novel by Lawrence Block, Neeson plays a private investigator who is trying to locate the kidnapped wife of a drug kingpin. He teamed up with writer/director Scott Frank for the production, whose vision prompted Neeson to agree to doing the role despite his reservations.

    “He outlined how he wanted to treat it, very noir-ish, allowing scenes to play out, rather than this MTV-edited craze where if a character speaks more than two sentences the editor’s scared or the director’s scared the audience will get bored,” said Neeson of Frank.

    Neeson’s wife, Natasha Richardson, died in a skiing accident in 2009, which may have helped the actor prepare for his character in A Walk Among The Tombstones. “”I knew what was required and I can easily access that kind of darkness, you know,” he said.

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  • Liam Neeson Hesitated Doing New Film: ‘Might Be Another F***ing Phone Call’ Movie

    Liam Neeson said he hesitated when he received the phone call from Walk Among the Tombstones director Scott Frank, afraid the film might surround “another f**king phone call.”

    One of the actor’s most beloved films is Taken, about a man fighting to save his abducted daughter in Paris. One of his most imitated lines — “I will find you and I will kill you” — comes from Taken during on a phone call with his daughter’s abductors.

    In Walk Among the Tombstones, Neeson plays a private investigator trying to locate an abducted victim. This time, he’s looking for the kidnapped wife of a drug kingpin.

    After hearing the premise of the movie, it’s understandable that Neeson, 62, would have questions about the film.

    “When I first read Scott’s [Scott Frank, director-and-writer] script, I hesitated,” he admitted to Empire magazine. “Because I thought, ‘Here we go, here’s another f**king telephone call, talking to the bad guys.’ So there was this huge question mark before taking it on.”

    Neeson said it wasn’t too much of a stretch for him to slip into the character for the dark film. While the other actors had their own methods to get into that zone, all Neeson had to do was remember the loss of his wife, Natasha Richardson, who tragically died in 2009 following a skiing accident.

    “I knew what was required and I can easily access that kind of darkness, you know,” he said.

    The actor admits that his sons, Micheál and Daniel, are just as obsessed with Taken as the rest of the world.

    “I have recorded a special voicemail [with Taken quotes] so many times for my kids!” he told Australian radio hosts Kyle and Jackie O. “And they have to prompt me on the lines, because I forgot them, which is a little embarrassing!”

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