Liam Neeson's audition for a pivotal role in The Princess Bride went embarrassingly wrong, though it had nothing to do with ...

Liam Neeson isn't what you would call diminutive—the Irish actor stands 6-foot-4—but there was one role he was too short for. Neeson tells Entertainment Weekly that the most embarrassing ...

I didn’t have to loop it or anything.” Forget 6-foot-4 pretenders like Neeson. “It was Andre,” Reiner said, “and the rest was history.” Get more Cracked directly to your inbox.

Things certainly turned out fine for Liam Neeson. He would appear in another cult classic, the Sam Raimi-directed film, Darkman , just a couple of years after this failed audition.

Liam Neeson has revealed he was given a look of disgust by the director of 1987 movie The Princess Bride after he auditioned for a role as a giant- despite him being over 6ft 4.

Neeson was asked to confirm whether an anecdote about his audition for The Princess Bride on IMDb's trivia page that claimed Reiner, now 78, holding "a look of disgust on his face when he realized ...

Liam Neeson is known around the world for his starring role in the Taken franchise, and for playing Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace, and as Bruce Wayne's ...