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    Liam Neeson Shows Up at NY Movie Theater to Introduce 'The Marksman'

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    The ‘Taken’ actor attends the screening of his new film at AMC Lincoln Square in the Big Apple as movie theaters start to open for the first time in almost a year.

    Mar 7, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Liam Neeson will personally welcome cinema-goers back to New York theatres on Friday night (05Mar21).
    The actor’s film “The Marksman” will be among the new releases hitting the Big Apple’s big screens as theatres re-open, after the pandemic lockdown, for the first time in almost a year.
    Neeson, who has received his first vaccination shot, will introduce his new action movie at AMC Lincoln Square, and tells The Hollywood Reporter, “This is one for the diary. It will be nice to welcome people.”
    “I think going to the cinema is a bit of a sacred experience. I’ve felt that way since I was a kid.”

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    AMC bosses are opening all 13 of their New York City locations.
    Cinema capacities will be limited to 25 per cent, or no more than 50 people per theatre. Some cinemas in California have also been given the OK to re-open, while Los Angeles film fans are hoping theatres in the city will open in the next few weeks.
    Studios turned to streaming platforms following multiple delays because of the coronavirus crisis, but some directors were not happy with the move.
    Last year, Christopher Nolan and James Gunn ripped Warner Brothers over their deal with HBO Max. The studio was slammed for not consulting the filmmakers and stars when they decided to release their entire 2021 movies such as “The Suicide Squad”, “Dune”, “Godzilla vs. Kong” and “The Matrix 4” directly on the streaming service.
    Meanwhile, Martin Scorsese wrote in an essay last month that streaming movies had a negative impact on cinema, which he claimed was being “systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced to its lowest common denominator, ‘content.’ ”

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      Liam Neeson Has Unusual Way to Choose Movie Roles

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      The ‘Taken’ actor uses what he calls his ‘cup of tea test’ when reading movie scripts in order to help him decide which onscreen roles to accept and which ones to reject.
      Oct 4, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Liam Neeson picks film roles based on his need to have a cup of tea.
      The movie star knows a film is going to be good if he doesn’t feel the need to take a tea break while reading its script.
      Such was the case with his new movie, “The Honest Thief”, in which he portrays a bank robber trying to go straight.
      “I have something I call my cup of tea test,” Neeson tells WENN. “If I start reading the script and I get to page six and decide, ‘Oh, I must get a cup of tea’, that’s not a good sign.”

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      “With Honest Thief, I got all the way to the end of the story. (Character) Tom meets this woman and falls in love for the first time in his life. He decides to give up his bandit career after accumulating these millions of dollars. I thought that was such an original idea. It really touched me.”
      And he also enjoys films in which he gets to work with stunt co-ordinator Mark Vanselow – the pair has now teamed up for 24 projects.
      “I’ve never once scuffed a knuckle, never once had a damaged muscle – nothing at all,” Liam explains. “Mark and I have a very tight shorthand language. He’ll work with his stunt guys first and devise the fight, show it to me, and after we’ve wrapped for the day, we’ll rehearse in a space that has an outline of the set and all of that.”
      “I might have a couple of notes and say, ‘We already did that in Taken 2,’ ‘Can I do a kick there instead of a punch?’ Then we slowly go through the fight, grab the other actors if and when we can, and go through the fight over and over and over again. When we finally get to shoot the fight on set, we act as if it’s the first time we’ve ever done it, so the audience believes it’s real. But also, because we’ve rehearsed it to death, no one’s going to get hurt.”

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      Liam Neeson Not Fan of Modern Superhero Movies

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      Although he played Batman’s arch enemy Ra’s al Ghul in two Caped Crusader movies in the past, the ‘Taken’ actor rules out getting involved in any modern superhero franchise.
      Feb 26, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Liam Neeson has never understood the lure of starring in superhero movies because spending hours in the gym to “pump” up his muscles doesn’t appeal to him.
      The “Taken” star famously portrayed Batman’s arch enemy Ra’s al Ghul, also known as Henri Ducard, in 2005’s “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight Rises” in 2012, but modern superhero blockbusters aren’t top of his watch list.
      “I’m really not a huge fan of the genre,” he confessed to U.S. news show Entertainment Tonight.
      “I think it’s Hollywood with all the bells and whistles and the technical achievements and stuff – which I admire – but I have no desire to go into the gym for three hours every day to pump myself up to squeeze into a Velcro suit with a cape.”
      “I admire the actors and I know some of the actors who do it – and do it fantastically. It’s just not my genre, it really isn’t,” he added.
      Neeson admits he enjoyed experiencing the use of computer-generated imagery (CGI) when he portrayed Qui-Gon Jinn in “Star Wars: Episode One – The Phantom Menace”, and although it pushed him as an actor, he found the special effects work tiring.
      “The first Star Wars, I was in that, that was 22 years ago, and I enjoyed that, because it (CGI) was novel and that was new,” he shared.
      “I was acting to tennis balls, which were ultimately going to be little fuzzy furry creatures and stuff. That was interesting, acting-wise, to try and make that seem real, but that was the last. It’s quite exhausting.”
      Neeson did reprise the character for 2019’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”, the final film in the latest franchise trilogy, but only returned for a small voiceover role.
      He recently revealed the money he earned for the recording was donated directly to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), for which he serves as a Goodwill Ambassador.

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      Liam Neeson Used Stunt Double for Butt Scene

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      The ‘Taken’ actor says he used a stunt double for a butt close-up with Charlize Theron in his 2014 movie because he didn’t want the world to see his Irish bum.
      Feb 21, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Liam Neeson called in his faithful stunt double for his butt close-up in “A Million Ways to Die in the West” – because he didn’t want the world to see his white Irish bum.
      One scene in the comedy flop called on Charlize Theron to place a flower between Liam’s butt cheeks, but he wasn’t about to bear his rear for the cameras, so he asked his longtime on set sidekick to take one for the team.
      “Mark Vanselow is my stunt co-ordinator – we’re working now on our 24th film together – and when we were doing that movie… I hate my Irish butt,” Liam said during an appearance on “Watch What Happens Live”. “I said to Mark, ‘This is a sign of our friendship, would you ever do this scene where Charlize Theron puts a daisy in your butt?’ And he said, ‘Sure.’ ”
      “I gave him a big hug afterwards. I said, ‘There’s no f**king way is anybody gonna see my Irish butt!’ ”

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