LIAM Neeson’s days as an action movie star are numbered after he admitted he’s too old for such roles.
The Antrim man, 65, became an “accidental” action star in recent years after using his “particular set of skills” to turn Taken and its sequels into hits.
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Liam Neeson says he’s too old for action roles at 65
And big-budget blockbuster parts soon followed in Non-Stop, Unknown, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Run All Night and The Grey.
But Ballymena native Liam reckons that the time has come for his Hollywood hardman to call it a day.
He said: “The thrillers, that was all a pure accident. They’re still throwing serious money at me to do that stuff. I’m like, ‘Guys, I’m sixty-f***ing-five.’ Audiences are eventually going to go, ‘Come on.’”
But his action fans still have two upcoming revenge thrillers to enjoy before the end.
Hard Powder sees Neeson play a snowplow driver who faces off with drug dealers, while in The Commuter he’s a businessman caught up in a criminal conspiracy during his daily commute home.
The latter film will see him team up with his Unknown, Non-Stop and Run All Night director Jaume Collet-Serra for the fourth time.
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Liam Neeson as FBI agent Mark Felt in Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House
Neeson said: “I’ve shot one that’s going to come out in January sometime.
“There might be another. That’s it. But not Taken, none of that franchise stuff.”
Instead, the A-Team star has turned back to dramatic work and has recently taken on the title role in Watergate movie Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House.
Neeson plays the high-ranking FBI official who was the Washington Post’s ‘Deep Throat’ source during the 1970s scandal.
The movie got its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday.
Neeson, who featured in Martin Scorsese’s spiritual epic Silence last year, is also lined up to co-star with Colin Farrell in Widows, by 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen.
The A-lister — who was nominated for an Oscar for Schindler’s List in 1993 — was a theatre actor before getting his big break in Excalibur in 1981.
He had previously joked that he thought Taken would go straight to video.
But the three films have grossed €777million worldwide at the box office.
