Taken was released back in 2008 and has become one of Neeson's most recognizable roles . In the tense action flick, Neeson plays a father who has to go to great lengths to rescue his daughter after she was kidnapped in Paris.
The tense race-against-time thriller wowed audiences around the world and made Liam Neeson one of Hollywood's leading action stars. However, some Americans were ut off traveling to Europe after watching the movie, Neeson revealed.
The actor was promoting the third installment of the franchise in an interview on the Graham Norton Show in 2014 and made the surprising admission. "Just the other day I got a letter from a school teacher in Texas who had tried to take 60 students to Europe and the families of 40 of them got the kids out of it because they had seen ‘Taken 2’," he explained.
"And then this year she wanted to take 20 of them and the parents all said, ‘No, because we’ve seen that movie!"
Since the success of Taken, Neeson has become largely known as an action star. Some of his most beloved action thrillers since Taken include The Commuter, Non-Stop, and The Grey, among many others.
Most recently, the Northern Irish actor starred in flicks like In The Land of Saints and Sinner, Retribution, and Memory. Meanwhile, Liam Neeson is set to star in The Naked Gun reboot alongside Pamela Anderson.
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