Liam Neeson has claimed his film franchise Taken is stopping American parents allowing their kids to go abroad on school trips.
The 62-year-old has been a massive hit in the kidnap films, where he plays an ex-CIA operative taking revenge on thugs who capture his daughter.
But Neeson has found that one thing the films certainly aren’t, is a good advertisement for Europe.
He said: “Just the other day I got a letter from a school teacher in Texas who had tried to take 60 students to Europe.
“And the families of 40 of them got the kids out of it because they had seen Taken 2.
“And then this year she wanted to take 20 of them and the parents all said, ‘No, because we’ve seen that movie’.”
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He was paid €15million for Taken 3 but told Graham Norton he was reluctant to appear unless the writers revamped the plot.
He said: “I said the second one wouldn’t happen and I said I wouldn’t do a third one if someone got taken.
“It’s insulting to an audience as well as me. It’s a good storyline and I’m the hunted instead of the hunter.”
