Conan Wants To Learn How To Talk Like Liam Neeson | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

is it true I never knew if this was true. or not that you had a chance to do James. Bond was that ever a possibility for you. or was it ever. discussed they were interested in me. after Schindler's List. um they were interested in a whole bunch. of other actors some some journalist. seem to think oh why did you turn down. Bond I like no I wasn't offer James Bond. I think I was on the radar for five. minutes would you have done it if the. chance had come up. um yeah but my wife got over she she. said uh when I first started getting a.

couple of calls from Barbara Brockley. mhm about you know would I be interested. I said yeah I would be interested and. Natasa and I weren't married at the time. and she says if you are offer James Bond. we're not getting married. I she did not want to be married to. James Bond yeah yeah I was work today. these. boring horribly beautiful women I can't.

take it. anymore yeah I'm sure it is funny after. a while anything they're paying you to. do becomes a job there's a point I'm. sure you know it's like I don't care if. you're the ice cream taster at the Ben. and& Jerry's factory there's a day when. you come home and go like God damn it. one more taster fudge Ripple Crunch and. I'll take my life I swear I. will yeah there must be days when Daniel. Craig were would come oh God damnn it.

Bond we had to kiss and kiss and kiss. enough why don't they leave me. alone uh I know that uh retribution is. the is the the current film the film. that's coming out yes and um it's going. to be out in like 3 days and is this a. one that where you read the script and. said pretty quickly oh this looks like.

this looks like this is a good one can. you tell pretty quickly when you read a. script that this is yeah I I have a cup. of tea test if I get to page five say. and I think must make a cup of tea. that's not a good sign you know oh okay. that's the tea test yeah that's the tea. test yeah but uh I'd work with these. producers these lovely guys and um I've. done three movies together in studio. canal i' done five movies together with. and I knew it was going to be a thriller. and i' I'd done one the guys on a.

airplane that crises a train that. derails and crises I car it's got to be. a car so this is about a car mhm driving. a car I've spent 95% of the movie in a. car with my two kids in the bik yeah the. only problem is I'm trying to take them. to. school I'm a I'm a financial adviser. Banker mhm no no skills no set of skills. no yeah and um driving through the. streets of Berlin but unbeknownst to me.

I'm sitting on a a bomb mhm as are my. kids and I have to follow these. instructions from this anonimous person. who has left a phone in the car anyway I. read the script uh in London uh they. sent it him and I I found out a real. page Turner it was really interesting. good action paced thing you know yeah. you know they've always said and it's. not that I know a lot about the film. business but they've always said if you. don't have the script you can't fake the.

you can doesn't matter what you do you. can get the greatest actors in the world. you can get the greatest director if. it's not there in the script con if it. ain't on the page it ain't on the stage. yeah that's the truth and I can tell. it's the truth because it Rhymes yeah if. something Rhymes I immediately believe. it I immediately believe. it but I love that you can tell by just. what you call the tea test if you want. to make yourself a cup of tea a couple. of pages in that means it's the problem. yeah yeah there's something not I have a.

version of that called the if I'm. offered test which means if I'm offered. anything I'll do. it CU I want to go do it yeah you know. you know the old old actor one you know. agent calls the actor. performer and the ACT go hey John how's. it going yeah what. who I would not work with that if. she was how much.

that's the classic one yeah yeah that's. the world that's the not just show. business that's all across the board. yeah that's everybody um well I'm. looking forward to it because it's a. good movie con and I I I have to say I I. just when I know you're in something I'm. happy I'm I'm serious you're you're. you're always however you're feeling. inside you're always terrific and I also. I wish you could teach me to talk like.

you with I cuz i' I'm so annoyed as is. America by my own voice and I've always. just wished I could get it. down here because I think if I I think. it's it's blocked my career in so many. ways yes it has no it's absolutely true. imagine me on the phone you know saying. I've got some skills a special set no. one's threatened no there's no.

or I'm Michael. Collins you know I'm going to change. everything here in Ireland it's way up. there it's there's no there's no. Authority there's no Authority no I. disagree with. you. okay you have you have you have you have. extraordinary energy and I've seen you a. few times I've done your show several. times I love it I really admire it and. I've probably mentioned this before but. you'll enjoy this but I did have I went. to see a doctor doctor and he was asking.

me I first time I'd ever seen him and he. was asking me my history and about. whatever and he heart this that and I. said NOP no no and then he said what. about drugs and I said I don't do drugs. he said what about cocaine and I said I. don't do cocaine he said but cocaine. used in the past and I said no I've. never done cocaine in my life and he. said you know Conan this our this. relationship doesn't work unless you're. honest with me and I said no I'm telling. you the absolute truth I've never done. cocaine he went Conan I've seen your. work and he was serious I thought he's.

on something he's like I seen you you're. clearly hopped up on something and I. went no yeah that's just I don't know. what that is I don't know what that is. but it's that energy helps me it saves. me every day wow that was very. impressive yeah well also annoying to. people around me oh we'll get my wife in. here you've met my wife she she will. agree she'll say look Liam you take him. for the. day I don't want him um this is uh I.

just you know woke up happy today cuz I. knew I'd be seeing you and uh no. seriously you're uh you're the real deal. and um I'm uh you seem like a you seem. like you're happy which uh you know. something I I don't believe in the word. happy yeah content is the word is the is. the state yes I aim for is contentment. that's the best feeling in the world. yeah happiness comes and goes yeah yeah. no I I I agree with you I used to tell. my wife when we were just dating I said.

I believe in a low Bas hum meaning just. the you know that low background of of. good feeling so she had it made into a. thing that I could wear on my wrist cool. low base hum the problem is the the. person who made it had to there wasn't. enough space so they shoved all the. letters together and she gave me this. thing and it says lo. Basham and people think it's like a. county in Cork that I come from. I wear this thing it says L Basham but.

no I I know what you're meaning I think. that I that there's a Obsession in our. culture with are you happy all the time. it's not the Natural State but. contentment contentment is good. contentment is great yeah you know and. uh I recently learned a word Japanese. word called shiboomi. and it's it it sort of. describes. [Music]. contentment with.

I I can't even find the words for it. it's like for example a walk through a. some dappled forest and you're totally. at your ease that's and you're connected. in some way connected I think is is a. good and that's shomi I just love that. word yeah I'm G to get that for the. other wrist shabumi and. lasham yeah I'm gonna get the tattoo on. the throat I love the throat tattoo. Shaboom and people were and then I'm. going to fin meet someone a Japanese.

person is going to say no you they wrote. it wrong yes no.