Liam Neeson has just stormed the Netflix Top 10 again. With the action film The Marksman, he is currently in second place on the streaming service. Many celebrate him as a genre icon, but before his acting career, Neeson tried different jobs.
His admiration for the teaching profession is particularly pronounced, for which he even began training. However, it ended prematurely with an unpleasant anecdote.
Liam Neeson had to use his fists in teacher training
As the Irish Mirror reports, the star spoke about his worst day during his teacher training a few years ago. At the beginning of the 70s, a 15-year-old student didn’t want to listen to him, became aggressive and… even pulled a knife in front of Neeson! He didn’t know what else to do at the time:
I had to hit him and then I was reprimanded for hitting the child.
After he was reprimanded by the teaching profession, Neeson finally gave up on his career and ended his training prematurely. However, he also talked about the fact that he… Pressure with a school class full of students who can hardly be controlled generally just wasn’t up to par.
Before his acting breakthrough, Liam Neeson tried out a variety of jobs
According to the Irish Post, before his acting career, the star worked as a forklift driver for Guinness, a truck driver, an architect’s assistant and an amateur boxer, among other roles.
You can now experience him in his element as an action star in The Marksman – The Sniper with your Netflix subscription. In it, Neeson plays the farmer and Vietnam veteran Jim Hanson, who is a Witnessed massacre of illegal immigrants. Then he wants protect young Miguel (Jacob Perez) from the brutal henchmen of a drug cartel.
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