Liam Neeson

  1. He worked as a school teacher before he became an actor. Unfortunately, he lost the job after he punched a student. The student had pulled a knife on him during a confrontation.
  2. Producers offered him the role of James Bond for the movie GoldenEye. However, he turned it down. His future wife told him she would not marry him if he took the part.+1
  3. Liam Neeson was an amateur boxing champion in his youth. He started training at the age of nine in Ireland. Eventually, he quit the sport after he suffered a severe blackout.+1
  4. He worked as a forklift driver for Guinness. He also drove trucks for the brewery. This happened after he dropped out of university and before he discovered theater.+1
  5. Steven Spielberg cast him as Oskar Schindler after seeing him on Broadway. The director noticed Neeson’s shifting emotions during a play. Thus, he knew he found his leading man.
  6. He thought the movie Taken would go straight to DVD. He honestly believed it was a simple little thriller. He only took the role because he wanted to spend four months in Paris.
  7. He suffers from a severe fear of heights. Despite this, he performed a stunt where he dangled from a helicopter for The A-Team. He later said he was terrified the entire time.
  8. Liam Neeson lived with actress Helen Mirren in the early 1980s. They met on the set of Excalibur. She helped him get an agent and settle into life in London.
  1. Set builders had to rebuild door frames for him on Star Wars. He played Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn. However, he was so tall that he kept hitting his head on the set.+1
  2. He voiced the lion Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia. He has a very distinct, deep voice. Consequently, he also voiced the character of Good Cop/Bad Cop in The Lego Movie.+1
  3. His wife Natasha Richardson died after a tragic skiing accident. He returned to work on the film Chloe just days later. He said that work helped him survive the overwhelming grief.
  4. Liam Neeson claims he is terrified of horses. He prefers action scenes with cars or guns. Nevertheless, he had to ride a horse for the western comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West.
  5. The Queen appointed him an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He received this honor in 2000. It recognized his significant contributions to the drama and film industries.+1
  6. Liam Neeson originally studied physics and computer science at university. He attended Queen’s University Belfast. Sadly, he found the subjects too difficult and left to find other work.
  7. He keeps trying to retire from action movies. He often tells the press that he is too old for fighting roles. Yet, scripts keep arriving, and he continues to defeat bad guys in his 70s.

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