Liam Neeson appears on the cover of this week’s PEOPLE, and shares that at the age of 72 it might be time to retire from doing his own fight scenes, “You can’t fool audiences. I don’t want Mark [Vanselow] to be fighting my fight scenes for me.”
“I’m 72 — it has to stop at some stage,” says Neeson, who performs in his own fight scenes but leaves the more intricate stunt work to longtime collaborator Mark Vanselow. “You can’t fool audiences. I don’t want Mark to be fighting my fight scenes for me.”
He’s eyeing an exit sometime in 2025, but hasn’t firmly committed: “Maybe the end of next year. I think that’s it,” he says.
Neeson could certainly have a third act as a comedy star. He recently wrapped filming a reboot f the Leslie Nielsen police comedy The Naked Gun. He plays the hapless cop Frank Drebin Jr. in a new story, with Pamela Anderson costarring as a femme fatale.
“I’m madly in love with her. I can’t compliment her enough. She’s funny,” says Neeson.
For more on Liam Neeson, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands today. See Neeson in the Obi-Wan Kenobi limited series on Disney+ now.
