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. However, there's one iconic role he found himself unable to consider—all due to love. Read on to learn about the character his late wife Natasha Richardson didn't want him to play and why she threatened to not marry him if he did., sparks flew between the two actors and they soon became a couple.in 2014."We had just this wonderful kind of dance—free dance on stage every night.
"When I first started getting a couple of calls from Barbara Broccoli about would I be interested, and I said yeah, I would be interested," he said on the podcast."And Natasha and I weren't married at the time and she said, 'If you are offered James Bond, we're not getting married.'" "She gave me a James Bond ultimatum," Neeson said."And she meant it! Come on, there's all those gorgeous girls in various countries getting into bed and getting out of bed. I'm sure a lot of her decision-making was based on that!"Although Neeson never formally pursued the role, he admitted to giving his future wife a hard time about the possibility.
He did go on to win a more important role, however, becoming Richardson's husband in July of 1994. Their first sonSylvain Gaboury/FilmMagic Neeson and Richardson went on to enjoy almost 15 years of marriage together. Tragically, their happiness ended in 2009 when Richardson fell while skiing on Mont Tremblant in Quebec andand by staying busy in film."I remember calling my agent and I said, 'I don't care what it is. I'll take anything. I have to work,'" he said.), the work Neeson threw himself into would eventually give him a second chance at spy movies.