Review: Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson Bring Deadpan Brilliance to ‘The Naked Gun’
Neeson and Anderson play it hilariously straight in the reboot of ‘The Naked Gun’
Neeson and Anderson play it hilariously straight in the reboot of ‘The Naked Gun’
You might be unaware of this, but before he became an action star in his late fifties in films like Taken and The Grey Liam Neeson was a highly-regarded actor. Okay, that’s not really news to anybody, but while Neeson has gone onto an unlikely career revitalization as a greying action hero he admits that he misses where he got started in the first place: the stage.
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Starring in a Steven Spielberg film opposite Daniel Day-Lewis might be as close as it gets to a “dream role” for an actress, and for two-time Oscar winner Sally Field Abraham Lincoln’s wife Mary Todd in Spielberg’s Lincoln was a role she wasn’t going to accept being passed over for.
Famke Janssen is still well-known for appearing as a Bond girl in 1995’s Goldeneye. But looking back, the actress isn’t too fond of that role.
Inside the Actors Studio and its host, James Lipton, welcomes Oscar-nominated actor and Taken 2 star Liam Neeson to its stage tomorrow night (October 2nd).
Now for your viewing pleasure, you can have Liam Neeson stare, glare and judge you right from your computer screen.
Although Bradley Cooper seems as if he was born being the quintessential Hollywood leading man, the actor did face some obstacles starting out in the business. These roadblocks helped him portray the struggling writer, Rory Jansen, in his new film, The Words.
Liam Neeson has become one of the leading international motion-picture actors today. Whether it is his Academy Award®-nominated role of Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg’s highly acclaimed Schindler’s List (1993), his award-winning portrayal of the legendary Irish Republican hero in Michael Collins (1996), or his role as controversial sex therapist Alfred Kinsey in the critically acclaimed Kinsey (2004), Neeson continues to display an acting range matched by few.
How did Liam Neeson find the inspiration to act in a movie based on putting plastic pegs into plastic ships? According to Neeson, he found it in the script and the filming locations.
Even though he was drawn to the role, Neeson had concerns about his physical ability for the role.
“Our business is feast or famine, and I’m choosing to make hay when the sun shines,” he adds, “I like working, and I relied on work a lot in the last few years to get through a rough personal time. I needed it.”