Liam Neeson 'retires' from action films: 'Audiences are eventually going to go, 'Come on''
Taken launched an unexpected late action hero career
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Liam Neeson found an unexpectedly large and fast-flowing vein of work in action movies in the latter half of his career, but he's apparently ready to move on.
Sky is reporting that he vowed to retire from the genre at Toronto International Film Festival this week, noting that his sojourn into it was "all a pure accident".
"They're still throwing serious money at me to do that stuff," he explained.
"I'm like: 'Guy's I'm sixty-f******-five.' Audiences are eventually going to go: 'Come on.'"
His unexpectedly successful role in 2008's Taken led to a slew of action hero roles, including ones in The Grey, Non-Stop, Run All Night and A Walk Among the Tombstones.
It might be worth taking this action retirement announcement with a pinch of salt, though.
In 2013, Neeson said: "I don't think there'll be a Taken 3. She can't get taken again!"
Taken 3 was released in January 2015.
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