The Irish Mail on Sunday

HE’S forged a career out of his image as a battle-hardened tough guy.

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But Liam Neeson says he’s never been in a fight in his life – and has no desire to show off his very particular set of skills. The Ballymena man, who was a talented amateur boxer before he turned to acting, said, ‘I’ve never been in a real altercatio­n. I’m just being very honest but I’ve never got into a fight. Ever.’ The Taken star, 65, said that his movie career has exposed him to elite special forces soldiers, and ‘The SAS guys I’ve trained with say no matter how skilled you are, at the first sign of a fight in a bar, you leave immediatel­y.’ ‘You don’t try to prove yourself, you just get out,’ he told Australian website news.com.au. Meanwhile, the star of a new movie, Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House, has said he is no fan of social media. ‘I’m not on Facebook or Twitter. It seems to be the new frontier and it seems lawless,’ said Neeson, left. ‘And I find that terrifying. You delete something and you think, “Where does that go?”’

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