Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

Got a good one for you this week with one of Hollywood's great actors, truly Liam Neeson.

What a fascinating career over 40 years, if you trace it.

His first movie was 1981 X-Caliber, which became a cult classic.

He appeared in that with Helen Mirren.

He'd been plucked from the stages of Belfast and Dublin.

He's a native of Northern Ireland.

grew up there during the troubles.

Was it talented in promising young boxer before he found the stage?

But from X-Caliber forward, think of all the roles in his career.

Schindler's list for which he was nominated for the Oscar, Michael Collins, Kinsey.

They go on and on and on.

Then into new audiences with Star Wars, the Phantom Menace, a billion dollar movie, love

actually.

I know I'm leaving out your favorite movie right now, but there are so many.

It's hard to include them all.

Then this fascinating turn in his career takes place in 2008 when he's cast as an action

hero in Taken with the iconic scene about his having a particular set of skills.

Warning someone on the other end of the phone.

Spawn two more of those movies, massive hits together.

Those made a billion dollars.

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