He’s on the chat circuit promoting his latest hit The Naked Gun, and speaking with GQ about the long-overdue return of Frank Drebbin Jr. Liam Neeson was asked about the death of Qui-Gon Jinn in 1999’s The Phantom Menace, an exit into the netherworlds of the Force that in his eyes was a far from noble end.
“I felt my death was a bit namby-pamby. I’m supposed to be a Master Jedi, you know?” he said. “My character fell for that, ‘Oh, I’m going for your face, no, I’m not, I’m going for your stomach.’ ‘Oh, you got me!’ Oh, please. Hardly a Master Jedi.”
With a smirk, Neeson added that overall, his experience working on The Phantom Menace “was great,” and he recounted a fun anecdote where he realized he would be upstaged by the entirely CGI character Watto in any scene the pair appeared in.
