This Sunday, October 6, 2024, at 9:00 p.m., the Arte channel broadcasts Rob Royin which Liam Neeson plays a historical character. The actor shares the bill with Tim Roth, another big Hollywood star who didn’t think he would go through with filming, as he confided during an interview for the magazine BombApril 1, 1997.
His name quickly comes to mind when we think of an action film. Indeed, this genre particularly sticks to the skin of Liam Neeson, who plays the famous ex-secret service agent in the saga Taken. However, the actor also knew how to move towards other cinematographic universes, notably playing historical characters. This is the case with Rob Roybroadcast this Sunday October 6, 2024, at 9:00 p.m., on the Arte channel. In this film, directed by Michael Caton-Jones, the actor shares the bill with another big Hollywood star. This is Tim Roth, one of director Quentin Tarantino’s favorite actors. Although the quality of his acting is no longer to be defended today, the actor believed that Michael Caton-Jones was going to thank him on the set of Rob Roy. He recounted this anecdote in an interview for the magazine BombApril 1, 1997.
Rob Roy : Why did Tim Roth think he was going to be fired?
Tim Roth actually believed that Michael Caton-Jones was going to thank him on the set of Rob Roy. In an interview for the magazine Bombpublished April 1, 1997, Steve Buscemi interviews Tim Roth about this. He then mentions: “I read that you thought your acting was quite exaggerated while filming Rob Roy, but even that wasn’t enough for the director, Michael Caton-Jones.” Regarding his concerns, Tim Roth responds: “I really thought I was going to be fired. I thought they would have received the rushes in America – it was a real studio film – and they would have said: ‘Get this fucking guy out of there!’ But that’s what Michael wanted. It was really a case of the director saying, ‘You have to trust me on this one.’ He was right and I was wrong.” Ultimately, the famous actor never left the cast of the film since he plays the antagonist Archibald Cunningham in Rob Roy.
Liam Neeson as historical figures
Two years before Rob Roythe actor played Oskar Schindler, a businessman who saved Jews from certain death in the camps. This role in the cult and moving film by Steven Spielberg, entitled Schindler’s Listallowed the actor to be nominated at the Oscars ceremony. No reward this time for Liam Neeson who will have to wait until 1996 to obtain the Volpi Cup for best male performance in the film Michael Collins. In this biopic, the actor once again plays the role of a historical character by slipping into the costume of an Irish revolutionary republican. In the case of Rob RoyLiam Neeson plays Robert MacGregor (aka Rob Roy), the leader of a clan bringing together several hundred people. The film returns to the legend of this Scottish historical character who, at the beginning of the 18th century, in the Highlands.
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