“It was a cornball. I really did feel that,” the 70-year-old admitted.
It took some convincing for Liam Neeson to come around to his iconic speech from “Taken.”
In the hit 2008 film, the Irish actor’s character vows to stop at nothing to save his daughter from a kidnapping in Paris. As he confronts his daughter’s snatcher over the phone, Neeson’s monologue became to be one of the most quoted lines in recent movie history.“I certainly did sound scary, but I thought it was corny,” NeesonIn his iconic speech, Neeson’s character Bryan Mills assertively says, “I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career.
The film went on to be a huge success and became a trilogy, with “Taken 2” and “Taken 3” released in 2012 and 2014, respectively.Liam Neeson said he sounded scary, but thought it was corny,” he told Vanity Fair.“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,'” Neeson told the outlet.
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