What actor took on a movie thinking it would go unnoticed and ended up starring in a huge, career-changing hit?

When Liam Neeson received the script for Taken , he thought it was a small project. He agreed to do the film because it was well paid, but he had no illusions about it.

In an interview with 60 Minutes , he said:

“It was a really simple little story. I didn’t find anything complex about it. It’s a guy determined to find his daughter. He goes looking for her, and then, boom, he finds her. And, boom, he kills a bunch of bad guys…

I was convinced it would go nowhere, that it would come out straight to video.”

$226 million later, Liam Neeson becomes the new action movie headliner in Hollywood and his career gets a second wind.

Not necessarily what he was hoping for… but when you’re still a Hollywood headliner at over 65, that’s already pretty good.

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