Liam Neeson says that Natasha Richardson threatened to throw him on the role of cinema
She promised that she would not marry her if he took the post.
Actor Liam Neeson is known for a multitude of timeless performances, playing characters, including Jean Valjean, Aslan, and the roles holding in Schindler's list ,, Kinsey , And Michael Collins . However, there is an emblematic role that he found himself incapable of considering - all due to love. Read the rest to find out more about the character that his deceased married Natasha Richardson did not want him to play and why she threatened not to marry him if he did it.
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The producers approached him to play James Bond.
Neeson said James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli approached him to play the famous secret agent in 1995 Gilded eye . At the time, the actor was fresh for his nodal appointment for the best actor in Steven Spielberg Schindler's list . He was also newly involved with his colleague actor Richardson, whom he had met by acting in the room Anna Christie on Broadway. Although Richardson is then married to the producer Robert Fox , Sparks stolen between the two actors and they quickly became a couple.
"I had never had this kind of explosive chemistry situation With an actor or an actress, "Liam remembers 60 minutes in 2014. "We just had this wonderful kind of dance - a dance without scene every night. She and I were like [Fred] Astaire And [Ginger] Rogers . ""
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He transmitted 007 to save his relationship.
Neeson and Richardson turned Jodie Foster drama Nestlery Together in North Carolina, when the role of potential espionage appeared. THE Love in fact The actor later said that his new relationship even prevented him from taking a meeting in playing Bond.
"When I started to receive some calls from Barbara Broccoli to what I would be interested, and I said yes, I would be interested," he said on the Podcast Conan O'Brien Needs a friend ,, as quoted by The Irish sun . "And Natasha and I did not get married at the time and she said:" If we offer you James Bond, we are not getting married. ""
In an interview Rolling stone Earlier this year, he shared this The character's reputation for feminization was part of what made Richardson fell off.
"She gave me an ultimatum James Bond," said Neeson. "And she thought it! Come on, there are all these magnificent girls in various countries that go to bed and come out of bed. I am sure that many of her decisions were based on this!"
He gave her trouble.
Although Neeson never officially continued his role, he admitted to having given his future wife to the possibility. "I would tease her by going behind her back, making my fingers as if I hold a gun, then [Hums the theme of James Bond]," he said Rolling stone . "I loved doing that [explained]!" AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
However, the actor also admitted that he was not a serious competitor for Bond, saying about Conan O'Brien Podcast, "I was not offered James Bond, I think I was on their radar for five minutes."
He continued to win a more important role, becoming Richardson's husband in July 1994. Their first son Micheál was born the following year, followed by their second son Daniel in 1996.
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He and Richardson got married until his death in 2009.
Neeson and Richardson then played almost 15 years of wedding together. Tragically, their happiness ended in 2009 when Richardson fell in ski on Mont Tremblant in Quebec and undergoing traumatic cerebral lesion . THE The actor died March 18, 2009 at the age of 45.
Neeson became a star of action after all.
Neeson said Rolling stone that he kept his family afloat after the death of Richardson with the help of the mother-in-law Vanessa Redgrave and sister-in-law Joly Richardson And remaining busy in the cinema. "I remember called my agent and said," I don't care what it is. I'm going to take everything. I have to work "," he said.
While the role of 007 ended up going to Pierce Brosnan (after that Daniel Craig ), the work in which Neeson launched would ultimately give him a second chance of spy films. In 2008, he created the role of agent ex-CIA Bryan Mills in the Flock - Inspired action flick Taken , Reprint the role in the 2012 and 2014 consequences. Ask what Richardson would have thought of his status as a action movie star at the end of his career, he said 60 minutes , "She would be tickled."
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