Afgelopen nacht is in Amerika de TV serie Taken begonnen die is gebaseerd op de bekende film franchise waar in Liam Neeson jaren lang schitterde. In deze show speelt Clive Stranden de hoofdrol en daarom had de website Collider een interview met hem en daar van kan je hier onder een stukje lezen.

Collider: How did Taken come about?

CLIVE STANDEN: I'd just finished filming Vikings, and I was looking for a smaller job to fit in between seasons. Alex Cary, who writes Taken and has written most of Homeland, as well, is our showrunner. He wanted to get on Skype with me, and it was lovely. He said I was his one and only choice for the role, and asked if I would consider it. The script was fantastic, so everything just aligned. I really would have really been stupid to start hemming and hawing over the workload, so I just made it work.

Were you nervous, at all, about stepping into something like this, that people so identify Liam Neeson with?

STANDEN: I did worry. When I first got sent the script by my agent, I didn't read it. I just assumed that it was going to be full of car chases and explosions and no substance because I didn't know anything about it. I had gotten sent 15 scripts, and Taken was one of them. I had to read them all, over a weekend, and I put Taken at the bottom of the pile. And then, my agent rang and said, "Did you read Taken?" And I said, "Yeah, it was full of car chases and explosions." And he said, "You obviously didn't read it 'cause it's not that. It's written by Alex Cary and it will be directed by Alex Graves."

And then, I got on Skype with Alex and the deal was done, really. I just saw his passion for it and what he wanted to do with it. I think what people think about, when they think about the film, is that Bryan Mills is this man who knows how to save his daughter from the kidnappers because he's been catching kidnappers, all of his career. That's not the case. Our spin on it is that he knows how to catch the kidnappers because he's been kidnapping people, all of his career.
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