Post by Vigilante on Jul 23, 2009 8:46:45 GMT -5
Sam Raimi recalls that during the making Darkman "we were shooting this big rain scene after Liam's character is terribly burned. He's staggering from the hospital into an alleyway, and he has to fall face-first into a giant, filthy puddle. It's asking a lot of an actor. But Liam insisted on doing as many stunts as he could. Before he's to take his first fall into the mire, a rat goes swim-ming by. The two of us are standing knee-deep in water, and this rat is swimming. I thought, Forget it. No one in his right mine would want to go swimming with rats. Liam looked at me and said, 'Hey, Sam, really realistic mechanical rats.'"
--Egg, Aug 1999
The one film where I thought I looked handsome was Darkman. When I had all that makeup on and the cloak and hat, I felt really cool and sexy and very swashbuckling. The wives and girlfriends of crew members visited the set, and a couple of times I was slipped phone numbers when I was in make-up. By the end of the film, I was scared to take it off, that they might go, ick, he's Irish and look at him.
--Cleo, Jan 1993
To New Yorkers, everything is a challenge. So when the Who Is Darkman posters went up early this past summer, every wiseass in town started scrawling an answer on top of them. Mike Tyson's name was the first to show up, quickly followed by Spike Lee's and Mayor David Dinkins'. Arsenio Hall told his audience that he was Darkman. In all that time, no one ever mentioned Liam Neeson. The real Darkman, who plays the title character in Miramax's upcoming The Big Man, thinks it's very funny. "Aye," he says in his low-pitched Irish brogue. "I know there was lots of talk about who was Darkman. I always knew that if it wasn't a good movie, I could distance myself from it because I was covered up for 90 percent of the picture. But if it was good, then I could say, I was the Darkman! And it worked out pretty well." Neeson dissolves into laughter.
--American Film, Dec 1990
--Egg, Aug 1999
The one film where I thought I looked handsome was Darkman. When I had all that makeup on and the cloak and hat, I felt really cool and sexy and very swashbuckling. The wives and girlfriends of crew members visited the set, and a couple of times I was slipped phone numbers when I was in make-up. By the end of the film, I was scared to take it off, that they might go, ick, he's Irish and look at him.
--Cleo, Jan 1993
To New Yorkers, everything is a challenge. So when the Who Is Darkman posters went up early this past summer, every wiseass in town started scrawling an answer on top of them. Mike Tyson's name was the first to show up, quickly followed by Spike Lee's and Mayor David Dinkins'. Arsenio Hall told his audience that he was Darkman. In all that time, no one ever mentioned Liam Neeson. The real Darkman, who plays the title character in Miramax's upcoming The Big Man, thinks it's very funny. "Aye," he says in his low-pitched Irish brogue. "I know there was lots of talk about who was Darkman. I always knew that if it wasn't a good movie, I could distance myself from it because I was covered up for 90 percent of the picture. But if it was good, then I could say, I was the Darkman! And it worked out pretty well." Neeson dissolves into laughter.
--American Film, Dec 1990
