3. Neeson Was Actually Embarrassed Of Taken At First
As already qualified, Neeson didnt think Taken could be a success and took the job as something of a Parisian retreat to work on his fighting skills. But even when hed finished filming, the actor wasnt particularly enthused about it: I thought it was going to be a straight-to-video release. That is actually one of the reasons I did it, to be honest Then it became this big success. I was a tiny bit embarrassed by it, a tiny bit, but then people started sending me action scripts. Why so embarrassed? And theres an insight there that Neeson is happy as long as hes working - though thankfully he hasnt got to the Bruce Willis/ Robert De Niro stage of just saying yes to everything.