Actor Liam Neeson talks about almost missing the start date to begin shooting the upcoming Battleship movie in the March 2011 issue of Esquire magazine.
He’s just finished shooting Battleship, which his costar Brooklyn Decker described to me as a “naval war, with aliens.” Neeson says that’s about right. “I’m the admiral of the fleet. But get this, I was in Belfast this summer, visiting my family, and my agent kept calling me, saying, Have you read that? Are you ready? And I said for what now? The shooting isn’t till December. And he said no, no, no. It’s Sep-tember. They need you this coming Wednesday! I’d completely let it slip my mind.
“So I spoke to the director, as he was shooting a scene I was supposed to be in, and I thought, Christ, they’re working, they really need me already. Anyway, I flew out there, to Hawaii, and I was onboard the USS Missouri the next day, dressed up in these naval whites, and all these sailors givin’ it this.” He gives a firm but unexaggerated salute in the middle of the restaurant.
