Liam Neeson, 68, says he’s retiring from action films

Oscar nominee Liam Neeson announced Thursday that he’s had enough of vigilante justice and plans on retiring from the action genre after two more planned redemption films.

‘Oh, yeah. I think so. I’m 68 and a half. 69 this [June],’ the knighted Northern Irishman told ET.

‘There’s a couple more I’m going to do this year – hopefully, COVID allowing us – there’s a couple in the pipeline and, then I think that will probably be it. Well, unless I’m on a [walker] or something.’

However, Liam admits he’ll miss ‘beating up guys half my age.’

‘I love doing them,’ Neeson noted.

‘I’ve just finished [Blacklight] in Australia and I had a fight scene with a kid – lovely, sweet actor called Taylor – and halfway through the fight I looked up, I was breathless and it didn’t cost him a cent, and I said, “Taylor, what age are you?” He said, “25.” I said, “That’s the age of my eldest son [Micheál Richardson]!”‘

And while Liam previously said he’s done with superhero movies, he said he’d ‘call his agent’ to see if Patty Jenkins wants him to play Diana Prince’s (Gal Gadot) father Zeus in Wonder Woman 3.

‘I guess so, sure. I mean, I’m very flattered!’ the three-time Golden Globe nominee gushed.

‘I wasn’t aware that the ancient Greek gods appeared in Wonder Woman. I have to say, much to my chagrin, I haven’t seen kind of the Wonder Woman movies.’

Neeson famously portrayed the God of Thunder in Louis Leterrier’s Clash of the Titans, which amassed $493.2M at the box office in 2010 despite scoring 27% on Rotten Tomatoes. 

Warner Bros. officially greenlit the Wonder Woman three-quel on December 27, according to Variety.

The Made in Italy actor’s comments came two days after he said he’d be interested in reprising his role as Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn during flashbacks of Disney+ series, Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Liam told Collider on Tuesday: ‘Sure, I’d be up for that, yeah.’

Neeson better get his agent on that soon as Ewan McGregor said on The Graham Norton Show back on October 9 that filming would begin ‘in March.’

Hayden Christensen is returning as Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader in the spin-off, which is set a decade after the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.

Neeson will next play retired Marine-turned-rancher Jim Hanson in Robert Lorenz’s dismally-reviewed Mexican border action thriller The Marksman, which hits US theaters this Friday.