Liam Neeson was born in Northern Ireland on 7 June 1952.

Since 1981, when he acted in his first film, "The Dark Ages," he has struggled with the ranks of third-rate Hollywood actors.

It wasn't until 1993, when Liam was nominated for a Tony Award for his first Broadway play, Anna Christie, that he gained the attention of Hollywood's top director, Spielberg. In 1994, starred in Spielberg's "Schindler's List" and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor.

In 2008, Liam Neeson ushered in a turning point in his career. A movie with an investment of only $25 million, "Hurricane Rescue", promoted the 1.93-meter-tall actor to a well-known Hollywood action actor.

Since this movie, he has gradually entered the ranks of Hollywood first-line actors with his tough and handsome appearance and excellent acting skills, but he has always been a little bit off the meaning of top actors.

This time, Liam accepted the invitation of Summit Entertainment to play a cameo role in "Three Days of Danger".

In addition to the president of Summit Entertainment and his personal relationship, the most important reason is that Liam Neeson hopes to get in touch with Peng Yichen, the hottest director and actor in Hollywood today.

He is 60 years old, and before he completely quits the film industry, he always hopes to leave a deeper mark on Hollywood and the history of world cinema.

You must know that he has been nominated for 1 Oscar and 3 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, but in the end, he returned with all of them. This is a lifelong regret for an actor who is ambitious in acting.

Therefore, when Liam saw Peng Yichen for the first time, he didn't have any big star shelf at all, walked quickly to Peng Yichen, stretched out his hand and held the young director very warmly.

Peng Yichen was also looking at Liam Neeson seriously at this time.

He wore a very casual outfit, a dark green plaid shirt, a pair of casual jeans, and a pair of light brown canvas shoes.

The neat and neat dress reveals his tall and sturdy figure.

His face is like a knife and an axe, and although he is over 60 years old, he does not have the slack of an elderly person at all.

Perhaps in order to weaken his overly three-dimensional facial features and bring aggression, Liam put on a pair of black-framed glasses on his face to make himself look a little bookish.

Peng Yichen and Liam shook hands tightly, and unexpectedly did not greet him, but looked at another middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes behind him, and asked, "I don't know who this gentleman is?"

"One of my agents, Dren Bidek, is one of the top partners at CAA. ”

Of course, Peng Yichen knows what kind of company CAA is.

It is recognized as the most powerful and fearsome agency in the Star Flag Nation, and has brought together a large number of superstars in film, television, music, and sports, including film director Steven Spielberg, movie stars Will Smith, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, TV celebrity Oprah Winfrey, and professional sports stars LeBron James and Peyton Manning.

Because this company is also the first to infiltrate the Chinese film industry among the brokerage companies in Xingqi Country, it is also very famous in the domestic film industry.

They have contacted Peng Yichen and Sun Yizou many times to sell their packaged film shooting plans.

To put it simply, CAA's package plan is that you pay for it, and their agency helps to form the crew, find actors, complete post-production, and finally share a part of the profits of the movie.

CAA can help investors who have money, but do not have the ability to produce independently, to complete the entire production of the film, and even the publicity and release of the film without worrying.

Of course, the cost of cooperating with them is also very large, and more than half of the profit of a movie will be sucked by them under various names.

When Peng Yichen and Sun Yizou first entered the North American film market, they were focused on cooperating with Warner, and they had no plans to make independent films at all, so they naturally ignored CAA's invitation to cooperate.

Since then, the relationship between CAA and Chen Jing Film Company has been a little delicate.

As long as he is an actor under CAA, he has hardly cooperated with Peng Yichen.

"So, this Mr. Derener, why did you come to the crew today?" Peng Yichen looked at the agent with a polite but repulsive smile on his face and said, "I remember, Summit Entertainment has signed a performance contract with Liam. There shouldn't be any work for an agent in the crew, right?"

As if he didn't notice Peng Yichen's rejection at all, he smiled and said, "Director Peng Yichen, Liam is my client, but he is also a good friend." I just wanted to see how he did today, nothing else. ”

A male star of Liam Neeson's level can leave CAA at any time and choose another brokerage company.

So he doesn't care about the relationship between CAA and Peng Yichen.

"Hi, Peng. It's a pleasure to work with you, although De Lener is a partner of CAA, he just came to visit the crew today as my friend. Let's start shooting as soon as possible. I can't wait to play a rival scene with you, the hottest director and actor in Hollywood today. Liam Laugher explained to Peng Yichen, and then diverted the topic.

Peng Yichen nodded and said with a smile: "Okay." I see what you mean. Come, I'll tell you about a few shots that need to be shot today, and we should be able to finish it soon......"

Peng Yichen said as he took over the script specially prepared for Liam Neeson from the director's assistant beside him.

Although, Liam Neeson only has one scene.

It is estimated that it can be divided into up to three shots, and it will be able to shoot them all.

However, the role of Damon played by him plays a very huge role in the plot of the whole movie.

If the actor had not received a lot of relevant information and knowledge about the prison break from Damon.

Later, all kinds of stumbling preparations, and finally a successful prison escape, were simply impossible to complete.

And today, the filming schedule of "Three Days of Danger" was personally decided by Peng Yichen.

First, there is a scene in which the male protagonist played by Peng Yichen and the Mexican hand over forged passports and driver's licenses under the overpass.

Then, there was a shot of Peng Yichen recalling Damon's words and calculating his escape route and escape time on the map.

The last scene is the first scene of Damon played by Liam and John Peng played by Peng Yichen meeting in the restaurant.

Although Liam didn't have to play in the first scene, Peng Yichen arranged it so that he had a clear understanding of the plot.

In this way, in the process of his performance, he can say the theoretical knowledge of those prison escapes naturally and truthfully enough.

Liam is obviously a very dedicated actor, and he doesn't appear until the afternoon.

But as soon as he entered the group, he asked the makeup artist to dress him up in the required shape according to the requirements of the script.

Peng Yichen looked at the crew who were preparing for filming, and at the same time looked at Liam who had just walked away after putting on makeup.

smiled: "It's much better this way, the image just now is not like a master of prison escape, but like a university professor." ”

Liam teased: "Isn't a college professor a master of prison escape? Aren't you the one who has grown from a university teacher to a master of prison escape?"

Peng Yichen smiled and shook his head: "Okay, you're right!"

It seems that Liam doesn't take his role seriously just because he just has a scene.

He carefully read the script of the entire movie.

Peng Yichen turned his head and carefully looked at Liam's image at this time.

A white shirt with a light gray jacket and gray hair looks neat and neat.

The embarrassing slag on his chin made his whole person very vicissitudes, and at first glance he was a man with countless stories behind him.

It seems that Liam still has something to pay for this role.

He gave up for the past two years, and the image of a tough guy and a master that he has always maintained looks like a prison escape who once hid in Tibet and lived in humility and cowardice for many years.

Peng Yichen clearly knows how important the image of Hollywood stars is to their commercial value and future development.

Liam Neeson has become one of Hollywood's well-known tough guy movie stars since filming "Hurricane Rescue".

Relying on this "brand", he became one of the Hollywood actors' annual income rankings last year, squeezing into the top ten.

This is very rare for an actor who is already 60 years old.

But it is also because of the commercial label of this "tough guy" that Liam has never been nominated for an Oscar after relying on "Schindler's List" to win an Oscar.

At the Golden Globes, although he was nominated three times, he was disappointed each time.

This is the price he has to pay for his own commercial value.

But it is clear that Liam now no longer cares about the level of income, he needs to be recognized by professional awards and leave himself some honors worth remembering.

"That's not enough!"

Looking at the huge changes made by Liam Neeson, Peng Yichen still didn't seem to be satisfied.

"You also need to look frail, a little older. It's the kind of person who has been on the run for many years, and it seems to be very powerful, but in fact, the willpower is very low, and he is extremely cowardly. ”

Hearing Peng Yichen's request, Liam nodded thoughtfully.

Behind him, his agent, Drener, and the rest of the staff on his team, had angry faces.

In their opinion, Liam has greatly sacrificed his business image as a "tough guy", and Peng Yichen is still not satisfied and wants to gain an inch, which is simply unreasonable for these staff who rely on Liam to eat.

You must know that behind every Hollywood A-list movie star, there is a huge team that is serving them.

There are many more people who rely on these movie stars to live.

Therefore, the image and brand of these images are the guarantee of these people's jobs.

Without these things, Hollywood images will be worthless.

Peng Yichen's demands are tantamount to breaking these people's jobs.

Cutting off people's financial routes is like killing their parents; Peng Yichen's method is even more ruthless than cutting off people's financial routes, and he wants to directly smash people's jobs.

This makes these staff members around Liam Neeson acceptable.

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