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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

Does Liam Neeson not understand the rules of the game? Or is he having us on?

Liam Neeson in Taken.
A play on words? … Liam Neeson in Taken. Photograph: Allstar

Liam Neeson is making a bid to becoming the greatest interviewee in the world. Every other celebrity understands and adheres to the rules of the game. Their job is to promote a project, to better increase its revenue. An interviewer’s job is to politely disregard all that and ask more personal questions, to better increase the revenue of their publication. It’s an age-old push and pull, and everyone understands their place.

Everyone, that is, except Neeson. Because his interview tactic is different. Neeson likes to sit back, answer questions about his newest film and then, just as everyone is getting ready to pack up for the day, blurt out the single maddest thing that comes into his head.

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