65 percent of all actors and actresses are unemployed most of the time. “So you are often rejected and have to survive dry spells”, which Liam Neeson wanted to spare his son.
Berlin – Hollywood star Liam Neeson (69) had a special shooting partner in his new film “Made in Italy”: his son Micheál Richardson (26).
At first he was a little worried that he wanted to be an actor, as Neeson said of the “Augsburger Allgemeine”. “Because the beginnings in this job can be damn tough. Even my good friend Meryl Streep can tell stories about auditions and auditions from the early days of her career, which are not very encouraging. “
65 percent of all actors and actresses are unemployed most of the time. “So you are often rejected and have to survive dry spells, which as a father you would like to spare your children,” says Neeson. But in Micheál’s maternal family everyone had been actors and performers since the 18th century. “So it’s in his blood.”
In “Made in Italy” Neeson (“Schindler’s List”) plays an artist who travels from London to Italy to sell an inherited house with his son. Micheál Richardson’s mother is the actress Natasha Richardson, who died in 2009 after a skiing accident. dpa
