Liam Neeson‘s stuntman took one for the team.
On Thursday, the Oscar-nominated actor, 67, revealed to Watch What Happens Live viewers and host Andy Cohen that he declined to show his bare backend on the big screen, instead enlisting his longtime stunt double Mark Vanselow to complete the shot.
“I hate my Irish butt, okay?” joked Neeson.
The memorable scene in question is from 2014’s A Million Ways to Die in the West, directed by Family Guy‘s Seth MacFarlane. In the comedy, Neeson plays the villainous cowboy Clinch, who is knocked out by Charlize Theron‘s Anna in order to escape his clutch.
On Thursday, the Oscar-nominated actor, 67, revealed to Watch What Happens Live viewers and host Andy Cohen that he declined to show his bare backend on the big screen, instead enlisting his longtime stunt double Mark Vanselow to complete the shot.
“I hate my Irish butt, okay?” joked Neeson.
The memorable scene in question is from 2014’s A Million Ways to Die in the West, directed by Family Guy‘s Seth MacFarlane. In the comedy, Neeson plays the villainous cowboy Clinch, who is knocked out by Charlize Theron‘s Anna in order to escape his clutch.
- 2/21/2020
- by Benjamin VanHoose
- PEOPLE.com
For Season 1 of Ryan Murphy’s first responder procedural series 9-1-1, Mark Vanselow took on as much as any stunt coordinator could: an oceanic plane crash, apex predator attacks, bloody motorcycle wrecks and more.
Learning Murphy’s process while working on American Horror Story: Cult, Vanselow went into the producer’s latest series as part of a large team of disaster manufacturers, collaborating closely in bringing each of its visual terrors to the screen.
Joining forces with production designer Jeffrey Mossa, special effects coordinator James Lorimer, fellow stunt coordinator Tim Davison and the artists at FuseFX, Vanselow was able to help bring top-drawer cinematic spectacle to the small screen, judging how each of the series’ myriad stunts should be executed, and what should be realized in post.
“Everybody’s constantly trying to push the envelope as far as what we can do, but everybody, particularly from Ryan’s team,...
Learning Murphy’s process while working on American Horror Story: Cult, Vanselow went into the producer’s latest series as part of a large team of disaster manufacturers, collaborating closely in bringing each of its visual terrors to the screen.
Joining forces with production designer Jeffrey Mossa, special effects coordinator James Lorimer, fellow stunt coordinator Tim Davison and the artists at FuseFX, Vanselow was able to help bring top-drawer cinematic spectacle to the small screen, judging how each of the series’ myriad stunts should be executed, and what should be realized in post.
“Everybody’s constantly trying to push the envelope as far as what we can do, but everybody, particularly from Ryan’s team,...
- 6/11/2018
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Television stuntwork has come a long way in the past decade and half, both in the quality and quantity of the action sequences seen on the small screen and the appreciation they get from the Television Academy. The first Emmy for stunt coordination was handed out in 2002; in 2013 it was split into two awards categories: one for drama, limited series or movies, and another for comedy or variety program.
While small-screen stunts are now arguably of movie quality, TV shows aren’t as action-packed as their big-screen counterparts. Typically, an hour-long episode has one or two big stunt set pieces and a fight sequence or two. But those episodes are shot on eight to 10-day schedules.
Season two of Netflix’s “Jessica Jones” had the title character, played by Krysten Ritter, doing everything from running out of an exploding building one step ahead of a fireball, with her best friend on her shoulders,...
While small-screen stunts are now arguably of movie quality, TV shows aren’t as action-packed as their big-screen counterparts. Typically, an hour-long episode has one or two big stunt set pieces and a fight sequence or two. But those episodes are shot on eight to 10-day schedules.
Season two of Netflix’s “Jessica Jones” had the title character, played by Krysten Ritter, doing everything from running out of an exploding building one step ahead of a fireball, with her best friend on her shoulders,...
- 6/1/2018
- by Todd Longwell
- Variety Film + TV
Non-stop, the Liam Neeson hit from earlier this year, was less an action film than an old-fashioned locked-in-the-box whodunnit. During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London (on the fictional Aqualantic airlines) grizzled, hard-drinking U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks (Neeson) receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the government to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every 20 minutes. As Bill struggles to find who the murderer is, the ground crew is convinced that he himself has hijacked the aircraft.
On balance, Non-stop was a lot of fun. It took its absurd premise, which is basically “How do you kill someone on a crowded plane and get away with” and kept it focused, never wasting a moment while pushing its growling hero through obstacle after obstacle. There were a few too...
On balance, Non-stop was a lot of fun. It took its absurd premise, which is basically “How do you kill someone on a crowded plane and get away with” and kept it focused, never wasting a moment while pushing its growling hero through obstacle after obstacle. There were a few too...
- 5/27/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
With action thriller Unknown out in cinemas this week, we chat to actor Liam Neeson about his greatest geek films and the possibility of a Taken sequel…
I'm actually at a slight loss as to how to introduce Liam Neeson. He's a magnificent actor, who's been in my life for decades, always defying expectations and as adept at portraying heartbreak in the likes of Love Actually as he is at breaking bones in Taken.
His geek credentials run far and deep, from John Boorman's Excalibur back in 1981, as one of the heroic thieves in the mighty Krull, playing the redneck brother to Patrick Swayze and Bill Paxton in Next Of Kin, as the tormented Peyton Westlake in Darkman, before a tremendous dramatic run including Schindler's List, Nell, Rob Roy and Michael Collins led him to become a Jedi Knight in The Phantom Menace.
The list of Neeson's towering performances is incredible,...
I'm actually at a slight loss as to how to introduce Liam Neeson. He's a magnificent actor, who's been in my life for decades, always defying expectations and as adept at portraying heartbreak in the likes of Love Actually as he is at breaking bones in Taken.
His geek credentials run far and deep, from John Boorman's Excalibur back in 1981, as one of the heroic thieves in the mighty Krull, playing the redneck brother to Patrick Swayze and Bill Paxton in Next Of Kin, as the tormented Peyton Westlake in Darkman, before a tremendous dramatic run including Schindler's List, Nell, Rob Roy and Michael Collins led him to become a Jedi Knight in The Phantom Menace.
The list of Neeson's towering performances is incredible,...
- 3/2/2011
- Den of Geek
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