Liam Neeson says action movie roles are now for older actors too.
The ‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’ star has become a fixture in adrenaline-fuelled blockbusters like ‘Taken’, and while he think it isn’t something for "much younger men" anymore, he’s still waiting on his call for ‘The Expendables".
He told The Independent newspaper: "Action heroes used to be for much younger men, but now I get all these scripts where it’s, ‘Scratch 35, and now it’s 60!’ … No, [‘The Expendables’] haven’t asked me.
"I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing."
As the 62-year-old actor grows older, he has noticed changes in society and the way they feel about certain things – and he insisted the current generation would rather replace an older item instead of repairing it.
He added: "They just don’t fix things anymore. It gives me cause for concern.
"Where I live in New York, any time a bar closes down, suddenly there’s a Revlon make-up shop. There must be about 15 of them along Columbus Avenue.
"In the middle of it all there’s a little cobbler who operates from a tiny little space and I find myself sometimes breaking shoes in order to just bring them to him; just to keep it alive."
Liam Neeson says action heroes don’t have to be young
