Neeson turned 70 in June, “though I prefer to say soixante-dix,” he jokes, and in his latest movie he is in territory familiar and not., Neeson plays a hitman , whose rapidly advancing Alzheimer’s disease has forced him to scrawl reminders of his target details on his arm lest he forget.), it occasionally brings to mind Christopher Nolan’s, in no small part because that film’s memory-addled star Guy Pearce appears here as an El Paso cop on Neeson’s trail.
It was important, he said, “for audiences to see that I get hurt, that I have trouble getting up off the ground”.Neeson has no trouble getting projects off the ground – his IMDB credits list seven projects in 2022 plus two more in post-production and three more in pre-production – but he’s increasingly keen that the work should reflect the reality of his stage of life.
“Yeah, I think it does, because you’re part of storytelling, albeit with the bells and whistles and wonderful technical achievements of Hollywood. But you’re still storytelling.“I come from a nation of storytellers, and without blowing smoke up Ireland’s arse, we’re renowned for it, and I’m kind of proud of that and I want to keep that tradition going,” he says. “And part of that is facing one’s age. I want to face my age on screen. I really do.