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Liam Neeson isn’t hanging it up yet.
The 74-year-old said he thinks may have “a couple” more action movies in him.
“Maybe a couple left, you know,” Neeson told Fox News Digital when asked if he’ll transition away from action films in the near future. “Maybe … I hope I have a couple left.”
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Liam Neeson is seen in his new film “The Fix.” (Courtesy of Inaugural Entertainment)
The “Taken” star joked to Variety last year that he didn’t want to be doing stunts while pushing a walker.
His newest action flick, “The Fix,” in which he plays an ex-CIA operative alongside Zachary Levi, hit theaters Friday.
In “The Fix,” Neeson said, “There’s this incredible thread of humanity that these men, these extraordinary men, have to eventually analyze or work out what makes them tick.”
Levi said he “wanted to do something fun, gritty, darker, in comparison to other roles that I’ve played in the past, and this gave me that and then some, because there was all of the great spycraft and twists and turns and revelations throughout the story, as well as this human foundation.”
Neeson touched on the theme of redemption, which is explored in the film.
Zachary Levi stars alongside Neeson in the new film. (Courtesy of Inaugural Entertainment)
“I’d like to think we all need and want second chances, you know,” he told Fox News Digital. “We’re humans. We’ve all made mistakes in our personal lives and stuff, you know? It’s extraordinary to be forgiven, and it’s an extraordinary thing to really forgive someone. It really is very, very special. So, you know, I’m 74 years of age. I’ve had quite a few things happen to me that several of which seriously I have been forgiven for, which is just amazing, and then I can return that.”
Levi compared a lack of forgiveness to “drinking poison, hoping that the other person will die.”
“Forgiveness is grace, mercy, understanding, empathy,” he said. “These are things that we don’t explore enough as human beings.”
The 46-year-old said that people are often encouraged to look at others as an “evil monster. And by the way, people do evil things. People do monstrous things. And yet, still, I believe that they are children of God. And yet, still, I believe they are worthy of second, third, fourth chances, right?”
He explained that there needs to be boundaries, but a lack of forgiveness is “eating us alive as human beings, as a society, in this country and around the world because we’re not able to just see the other as a child of God.”
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In “The Fix,” Neeson plays a former CIA operative while Levi plays his protégé. (Courtesy of Inaugural Entertainment)
“The greatest definition of love I’ve ever heard is to will the good of the other,” he added. “It doesn’t mean you have to like them at all. It doesn’t mean you have to agree with their decisions at all, but you want them to find the light. You want them to be redeemed. You want that because we all need redemption. We all need forgiveness.”
In the film, Levi plays another former CIA operative who is Neeson’s protégé, and he said it was a relief “that I was not wrong to want to meet one of my idols, you know, like everybody says ‘don’t meet your idols,’ and I get it.”
The “Shazam” actor revealed that he’s met some of his idols in the past who didn’t live up to his image of them, “but fortunately, you get these wonderful, beautiful exceptions.”
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Director Guy Moshe told Fox News Digital that he had been looking for a while for a movie in which he could lend his perspective as an Israeli military veteran, but he said he didn’t want it to be a reenactment of something that really happened.
Guy Moshe is seen on the set of “The Fix.” (Courtesy of Inaugural Entertainment)
“So when one of the producers came to me with this hook, you know, this idea of this urban legend or like CIA lore or whatever, like money hidden in a wall in Tehran since ‘79, which may or may not be a true thing, I thought, ‘What an interesting way of sort of like hooking a story around a group of guys in that field.’”
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He said that it was about a year and a half after the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan, and “I could feel what those American soldiers must be feeling after a 20-year war, handing the keys back to the Taliban or something.”
Moshe said he had been serving in the Gulf when “we gave back the keys to the PLO after the Oslo agreement.”
“I just knew there and then I’ve got to do this,” he explained. “I want to start the film in the evacuation from Afghanistan, and I want give these people some sort of a journey to a mental redemption rather than specific redemption for something, so to fix what was broken in them.”
Liam Neeson attends the “Taken 2” premiere in 2012. (Getty Images)
Ultimately, Moshe said “The Fix” is “about a father who wonders if he wants his son to grow up to be like him, even though outwardly the father is “the image of the hero that we like to look at,” referring to the mentor/mentee relationship of Neeson and Levi’s characters.
The director said he thinks Neeson has succeeded as an action hero because he’s “real.”
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“We identify the most, especially in the action genre, we identify with real people, with a person that we feel conveys something that we believe is a real person in a real situation,” he explained. “It sounds simple. It’s the hardest thing to do in acting.”