Absolutionstarring Liam Neeson (Ballymena, Northern Ireland, 1952), hits Spanish cinemas this January 1. In it the Northern Irish actor recovers for the umpteenth time the role of twilight action hero (more of an antihero in this case since he plays a gangster who wants to settle accounts with his past after discovering that he is losing his memory), that in who feels so comfortable since the first installment of Taken (Revenge) back in 2008.
It has also confirmed its presence in another batch of films in which he will be forced to play quite physical roles (some have already been filmed), such as Hotel Tehran, Cold Storage, The Riker’s Ghost and the second parts of Ice Road y One night to survive (again under the orders of the Spanish Jaume Collet-Serra, one of his favorite directors in this last stage), in addition to the reboot of Grab it as you can, playing the son of the character immortalized by the always remembered Leslie Nielsen.
There are other older Hollywood actors who also continue to carry guns and punch, such as, without going any further, Sylvester Stallone o Arnold Schwarzenegger, But they are performers who have linked the bulk of their career to the action genre and Neeson's work is almost unprecedented due to his late incursion into it and the great continuity he has given it.
For the first time, however, he himself admits that a change of course will come sooner rather than later.
“I am 72 years old and at some point this has to end, I can't fool the public and I don't want Mark [se refiere a Mark Vanselow, su doble habitual en las escenas de riesgo] do all my fight scenes for me,” he told People last October. “It may go until the end of next year, I think it will.”
A few years ago the actor revealed in a BBC radio interview that he suffered from chronic pain, “cramps in the middle of the night” and that “pain made me cry, it was agony”. Neeson successfully underwent treatment to eliminate lactic acid crystallized in his legs, something he believed had accumulated due to overuse of his muscles at work, but he later discovered that it had more to do with excessive consumption of caffeine.
Despite this, the Northern Irishman seems increasingly aware that his body is no longer ready to continue being an action hero for many more years. And it doesn't seem like he has much desire left to rebuild his love life. Asked about if you still go to appointments In the aforementioned interview Peoplehis response was forceful: “In a word, no. I'm over all that.”
