“Its nice to be proven wrong.”
That includes his character’s now-legendary phone call speech, which Neeson originally thought was just plain cheesy.
“I certainly did sound scary, but I thought it was corny,” Neeson recently toldVanity Fair.
Liam Neeson in ‘Taken’.Europa Corp/Kobal/Shutterstock
“It was a cornball.
I really did feel that.
It’s nice to be proven wrong.”
“I thought, ‘Well, this is going to go straight-to-video.
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.
It just had this extraordinary cycle.”
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."
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