Liam Neeson wants A-Team to wear nicotine patches
By Alexandra Heilbron on June 8, 2010 | 2 Comments
Liam Neeson wants the stars of The A-Team to wear nicotine patches if there’s a sequel. The film is based on the TV show about a group of US Army Special Forces soldiers convicted of a crime they didn’t commit, who become mercenaries after a jail escape. Liam’s character is famous for his love of cigars, which horrified the actor, who quit smoking in the 1990s. He tried to use rubber cigars at first, but was chain-smoking again by the second day of filming. “I stopped smoking 16 years ago, it was a real issue for me,” Liam told Australia radio program The Kyle and Jackie O Show. “[Director] Joe Carnahan insisted I have cigars and because it was Canada, they don’t have a trade embargo with Cuba and the props guys got me these amazing Cuban cigars. I got them to make rubber ones, because I didn’t want to be puffing on a cigar, but Joe, who is a big cigar smoker, said, ‘No, it looks so false!’ I said, “Joe, I’m an addict! I can’t smoke this stuff!’” Liam has managed to wean himself off tobacco for a second time, and has already decided he will never smoke for a film again. If there is a sequel to The A-Team, he’s planning to suggest his character wears nicotine patches instead of smoking. “If we do a sequel, I think I’ll have to insist on no cigars,” Liam said. “We’ll all have patches on instead.”
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Haha! That’ll go over well!
Good Job Mr. Neeson!! It’s taken 100yrs for Hollywood to start being socially responsible (See ‘Thank You for Smoking’ and their Hollywood scene where they try to make smoking cool again with the tobacco company paying for their product to be advertised on screen). Hopefully they don’t offer Neeson millions more to ruin his health and morals and take the deal to smoke in a possible sequel…hhhmmm eeerily similar to Halle Berry possibly being offered $500,000 more to show her breasts in ‘Swordfish’ when she swore she’d never do that.