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Liam Neeson jokes sex scenes with Pamela Anderson were his favourite part of The Naked Gun

Liam Neeson has joked that his favourite part of making The Naked Gun was the "sex scenes" with his co-star Pamela Anderson.

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I Didn't Watch The Original Naked Gun Until Recently, And There Are 6 Bits That Had Me Kicking Myself For Taking So Long

About that bathroom scene...

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Liam Neeson tried not to copy Leslie Nielsen in The Naked Gun

Liam Neeson didn't want to "emulate" the late Leslie Nielsen in his take on Frank Drebin Jr in The Naked Gun reboot.

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The Naked Gun Has Screened, And Liam Neeson’s Legacy Sequel Is Leaving Moviegoers ‘In Tears’

Does it do its predecessors justice?

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The Naked Gun sequel called "deliciously stupid" and "an actual comedy movie" in first reactions: "If there was any justice in the world, Liam Neeson would get an Oscar"

The film is arriving in cinemas on August 1

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I Didn't Expect The Naked Gun To Get A Popcorn Bucket, But I'm Cracking Up Over The Deep Cut Reference That Allowed It To Happen

You have the right to remain...stuffed?

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The next three weeks might decide the future of comedy movies

INSIDE FILM: A trio of comedies are about to hit screens in the UK: ‘Friendship’, ‘Happy Gilmore 2’, and ‘The Naked Gun’. In different ways, they each reveal a lot about the current state of the film industry, writes Louis Chilton – and might have serious knock-on consequences

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Seth MacFarlane Explains Why Liam Neeson Was 'Probably The Only Actor Alive' Who Could Lead The New Naked Gun

It's not because his name is so similar to Leslie Nielsen's.

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Liam Neeson wasn't sure he was funny enough for Naked Gun

Liam Neeson spent the whole time filming The Naked Gun unsure if it was "working" for him because he didn't think he was funny enough.

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New Naked Gun reboot trailer has Liam Neeson fighting and farting his way through a hilariously violent send-up of his own brutal revenge movies

Liam Neeson avenges his dad Leslie Nielsen in a new Naked Gun trailer that's full of violence and toilet humor

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70 Years Later, An Infamously "Cheesy" Sci-Fi Movie Is Better Than You Think

Is 'This Island Earth' truly the worst sci-fi movie ever? Here's why the answer might surprise you.

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The worst Nineties comedies ranked, from Flubber to Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

THE COUNTDOWN: Not everything can be ‘The Big Lebowski’ or ‘Clueless’, as proven by the absolute trainwrecks that passed through cinemas in the Nineties billing themselves as comedies. Ed Power surveys the worst of them, from the Culkin-less ‘Home Alone 3’ to the Bill Cosby ghost film no one (thankfully)…

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Liam Neeson's Naked Gun reboot latest: comedy cast includes Pamela Anderson

Liam Neeson is taking over from Leslie Nielsen in a reboot of the much-loved detective spoof

Evening Standard

Liam Neeson is beating up bank robbers while wearing a skirt in first trailer for The Naked Gun reboot from The Lonely Island director

"Frank Drebin, Police Squad. The new version"

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The Naked Gun: release date, trailer, cast, plot and everything we know about the Liam Neeson action-comedy

Liam Neeson takes Leslie Nielsen’s role on Police Squad in reboot of classic comedy The Naked Gun. Here’s what you need to know.

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First trailer for Liam Neeson’s Naked Gun reboot released

Neeson steps into the role of the bumbling detective made famous by Leslie Nielsen in the TV show and film series created by the Zucker Abrahams Zucker team

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Priscilla Presley excited to see Pamela Anderson in The Naked Gun reboot

While Pamela Anderson's role in 'The Naked Gun' reboot hasn't been officially confirmed yet, Priscilla Presley is excited to see the 'Baywatch' star to play the movie's main love interest in the upcoming comedy.

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Jim Abrahams obituary

Writer and director who was part of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team behind the classic film spoofs Airplane! and The Naked Gun

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The Guardian - UK

‘Don’t call me Shirley’: Watch five classic moments from Jim Abrahams comedies

Writer-director was involved with a string of hits, including Airplane!, Hot Shots! and The Naked Gun. Here are some of the most famous scenes

The Guardian - US

From Airplane! to The Naked Gun, Jim Abrahams was a pioneer of spoof comedy

The writer and director, who died this week, helped to define what big screen spoofs would look like in the decades after

The Guardian - US

Jim Abrahams, co-creator of Airplane! and The Naked Gun, dies aged 80

Famed comedy writer and director, who was also involved in Ruthless People and Hot Shots!, died of natural causes

The Guardian - UK

The Holdovers to Airplane! The seven best films to watch on TV this week

Alexander Payne’s melancholy masterpiece is witty and bittersweet, and Leslie Nielsen’s 80s spoof classic is brilliantly ridiculous

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Liam Neeson promises The Naked Gun reboot will be ‘very funny’

Liam Neeson has promised 'The Naked Gun' reboot will be "very funny" and teased he and his co-stars Pamela Anderson and Danny Huston "had some laughs" making the movie.

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Liam Neeson to retire from action movies

Hollywood actor Liam Neeson has revealed he plans to retire from making action movies next year because he wants to bow out before he's unable to convincingly throw a punch.

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Behind the Scene No 4: can you guess the movie from the image?

Based on this mystery image, can you correctly guess the movie in this week's game of Behind the Scene?

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