Liam Neeson: I’m going to retire – 72 is too old to be an action hero

“I’m 72 – it has to stop at some stage,” he said, adding: “You can’t fool audiences. I don’t want Mark to be fighting my fight scenes for me.”Speaking about the potential for a 2025 exit, Neeson said: “Maybe the end of next year. I think that’s it.”The father of two, who married his late wife Natasha Richardson in 1994, was thrust into the genre after starring as Bryan Mills, a former government agent who undertakes a mission to rescue his kidnapped daughter, in Taken.“It just seemed to have touched something in the psychic nerve of movie going audiences,” he said of the hit film.His new crime thriller Absolution, which will be released next month, Neeson plays an ageing gangster who attempts to reconnect with his children while exacting revenge on criminals.Hans Petter Moland, the director, who also directed Neeson in Cold Pursuit in 2019, said Neeson had no trouble with the role’s physicality, saying: “When he’s…