Actor Liam Neeson returns to his role as ex-CIA operative Bryan Mills in the Olivier Megaton-directed sequel “Accepted 2.” Neeson has long been considered a fantastic dramatic actor, but playing Mills in the original “Cost” helped reestablish him as an action star. Despite his advancing age (which I won’t mention here), Neeson still seems excited to take on action packed roles like this.
Millin and Lenore (Famke Janssen) are kidnapped while in Istanbul and their kidnapper is Mafia boss Murad Hoxha Albanus (Rade Šerbedžija), the father of the man Mills killed in the first movie. Neeson was quite dubious about making a sequel to “The Cost”, describing it as “complete in itself” and that the original story he was given for the sequel was “not very good”. But once producer Luc Besson and his writing partner Robert Mark Kamen returned to Neeson with a mission in Istanbul, he found himself saying, ‘Maybe he could make this work. Well, let’s go for it.”
Like the star of “The Expendables 2,” Neeson is getting older, but he doesn’t look as old as Stallone or Schwarzenegger (and I’m not just saying it’s nice). While Neeson is acting in stage speeches, such as “Michael Collins” or “Schindler’s List”, he finds himself in entertainment. making action movies like “The Cost” and “Gray.
“I would love to do this. It came to me later in life, with the success of the first ‘Captured’ Hollywood cast three or four different I just moved my action,” Neeson said. “I feel like a kid in a candy store, I love doing that stuff. I love the screen with these great stunt guys and fight choreographers. It’s a great catharsis, I love the opportunity to be physical and do this stuff.”
While on “Good Morning America,” Neeson talked more about fighting training than he did for “Taken 2.” Stunt double Mark Vanselow, with whom Neeson has worked with for almost 13 years, and choreographer Alain Figlarz worked on the fighting action scenes, and started in slow motion to make the perfect move, and finally sped things up until the scenes were “blinded” to make everyone “in sync” “.
That type of combat introduced the first ‘Bourne Identity,’ type of close combat; I found that very difficult because I’m a big person and I kind of have some space to fight,” Neeson said. So I found something strange to do this hand-to-hand contest, but we bought it. fight choreography, and then it’s a matter of meditating and practicing it every day after we get involved.
Neeson was actually a boxer in Ireland as a kid, and he said that experience also helped with this role in “the work ethic and discipline to get off my fat ass and go to the gym.”
While these action movies came into Liam Neeson’s life recently, we’re glad they did. We expect to see him kicking the toy in “Cost 2,” and even if there isn’t a third movie in this series (which he’s made clear he doesn’t care about), we can still expect him to play an action hero. again soon.
See also:
Terry Crews on Getting Ready for ‘Expendables II’
Max Thieriot playing Ryan in ‘The House at the End of the Street’
Noah Segan Playing Kid Blue in ‘Looper’
Sources:
“Neeson interview captured by RTÉ TEN 2”, RTE, 1 October 2012.
“Liam Neeson Surprised” at the Success of ‘The Cost,'” Good Morning America, October 1, 2012.
