• Liam Neeson recalls his first scene in ironic “Taken” as corny.
• Blockbuster film Taken generated two sequels and over $230 million worldwide.
• Liam Neeson, the star of Taken, thought his most famous sequence would make people “cringe.”

The 70-year-old spoke candidly about his reservations after watching the movie for the first time during an interview with Vanity Fair.

“I was very surprised by ‘Taken,'” Neeson continued. “I thought it was going to be a straight-to-video film. It was such a simple story.”

In the classic scene of the film, the Narnia star threatens one of the human traffickers on the phone, telling them, “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.”

The Star Wars actor who played the character in that moment claimed that while he “definitely did sound intimidating,” the speech overall was “corny.”

“I thought it was corny. It was a cornball. I really did feel that” he said. “It’s nice to be proven wrong.”

Blockbuster film Taken generated two sequels and over $230 million worldwide.

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