Liam Neeson says he wouldn't have made Taken 3 if somebody was 'taken' in the new movie and he has also said that some people have been put off the whole concept of travelling anywhere because of the action franchise.
Speaking on the New Year's Eve edition of The Graham Norton Show, the Ballymena actor says it would be “insulting” if someone got taken in Taken 3.
He also says that he hesitated before he made the second instalment of the franchise and insists that the storyline for the latest movie is strong.
Neeson stars as retired CIA operative Bryan Mills, a man who keeps having members of his family kidnapped or being kidnapped himself. However, in the new movie, out January 9, Mills is framed for the murder of his wife.
“I said the second one wouldn’t happen and I said I wouldn’t do a third one if someone got taken,” Neeson tells Norton. “It’s insulting to an audience as well as me.”
Neeson added that Taken has put some people off the idea of actually travelling anywhere.
“Just the other day I got a letter from a school teacher in Texas who had tried to take sixty students to Europe,” he said. “The families of forty of them got the kids out of it because they had seen Taken 2. Then this year she wanted to take twenty of them and the parents all said, ‘No, because we’ve seen that movie!”
