Liam Neeson thought iconic ‘Taken’ speech was ‘corny’
nypost.comtold Vanity Fair. “It was a cornball. I really did feel that. It’s nice to be proven wrong.”In his iconic speech, Neeson’s character Bryan Mills assertively says, “I don’t know who you are.
I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills.
Skills I have acquired over a very long career.“Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now that’ll be the end of it.
I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you.”The film went on to be a huge success and became a trilogy, with “Taken 2” and “Taken 3” released in 2012 and 2014, respectively.Speaking in 2020, Neeson told Entertainment Weekly that he thought the film was a guaranteed box office bomb.“I thought, ‘Well, this is going to go straight-to-video.
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