Liam Neeson rejected James Bond due to his spouse's ultimatum: "in case you play 007, we might not get married"
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Liam Neeson revealed in a recent interview with Rolling Stone that James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli contacted him several times in the 1990s
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The actor earned an Oscar nomination for Best actor at the awards time on the way to "Schindler's list"
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Why flip down one of the most iconic moving roles in movie history? It all came down to Neeson's wife, Natasha Richardson.
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They looked at a lot of actors," Neeson said. "'Schindler's List' had come out and Barbara [Broccoli] had called me more than once to invite
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said to me while we were taking pictures of 'Nell' in the Carolinas, 'Liam, I want to tell you something: if you play James Bond, now we are not to marry.
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Neeson's love for Richardson outweighed his interest in playing James Bond, so he never had an extreme run-in with Broccoli
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What Neeson did do was taunt Richardson by "going into the back of her lower back, making my hands look like she's holding a gun,
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She gave me a James Bond ultimatum,” Neeson added. And she guessed it! Come on, there are all the right women in various nations getting in and out of bed
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Fortunately for the actor, he would get a second foray into movie stardom with the "Taken" franchise. Neeson could also test