Liam Neeson: 'Taken' Has Put Americans off Traveling to Europe

The Irish actor revealed he had received letters from Americans put off by the thought of traveling to Europe after watching the Taken franchise that has hostage taking as its core theme.

Speaking on The Graham Norton Show, Neeson 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."

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"And then this year she wanted to take 20 of them and the parents all said, 'No, because we've seen that movie!'" he added.

Neeson was on the show to promote the third installment of Taken, but he admitted he wouldn't have signed on for the threequel if the same ideas were revisited.

"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," he said.

Taken 3 hits theatres on Jan. 8.