There are actors who, although they seem destined to play certain roles, in the end the production decides to reject them or it is they themselves who end up declining the offer. On the contrary, when the perfect association is fulfilled, the interpretation makes the difference and the film is good, it is difficult to separate actor from character. Cases like these are Tom Hiddleston with Loki, Ryan Reynolds with Deadpool or Samuel L. Jackson being Nick Fury . This also happens with iconic characters like James Bond, with Pierce Brosnan being an authority (although he is somewhat tired of being asked about Craig’s successor). The reasons for rejecting or knowing that you will never want to play a role can be very varied and if not, they tell Liam Neeson . In an interview on the James Corden show , the Irish actor has surprised everyone with why he never wanted to be James Bond.
Specifically, Liam Neeson was at some point in the 90s in the agendas of the greats of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer to play the most famous spy in England. His casting preceded that of Brosnan and Goldeneye , his first Bond adventure. To the question regarding the iconic role, Neeson replied, “Yeah, they did approach me, I think it was a couple of calls from Barbara Broccoli, who is now the lead producer on the Bond movies. The actor placed this poll for the role after having triumphed with Schindler’s List, the 1993 Holocaust film that earned Neeson his only Oscar nomination. “They didn’t offer it to me. I know they were looking at various actors and I was apparently among them, “he said.
But the reason he never wanted to be James Bond was not about his ego, or about a strategic decision for his career. It was his wife, who died in 2009, who did not want him to ever play the role . “We were making a movie together in South Carolina, and she says, ‘Honey, if they offer you James Bond and you’re going to play him, you won’t marry me,’ ” Neeson said, adding the funny anecdote that after that, when They were angry, he would come up to her singing the James Bond tune. In the early 90s, surely no one would have imagined him as James Bond , but now with that turn to action movies that his career took after Revenge , we know that Liam Neeson could have saved the world on more than one occasion.
