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Liam Neeson’s son once had a sweet moment with R2-D2 on set of dad’sStar Warsmovie.
“I cannot believe it was 24 years ago that we shot the film in London. My gosh,” he told the outlet. “I remember my son— I’ll tell you a funny story: My son Micheál was 2. His nanny brought him out to visit me on set and it was lunchtime. I held him in my arms and took him around the set and there was R2-D2, just sitting parked.”
“My son looked at this strange piece of metal, in my arms, and just went, [stretches arms out]. So I had to let him down and he waddled over and started hugging R2-D2,” continued Neeson. “I thought it was very interesting. He was 2, he knows nothing aboutStar Wars, [never] saw any of the movies. It was just so cute.”
Neeson added, “I remember telling [writer/director] George Lucas after lunch, I said, ‘I brought my son on. He had to go down and hug R2-D2 and it was really touching.’ And George said, ‘Yeah, R2-D2 has that effect on kids.’ And I just thought it was very, very sweet.”
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Neeson shared two sons Micheál, 26, and Daniel, 25, with his late wifeNatasha Richardson, who died at 45 in 2009.
He added, “As a kid, I thought it was CGI or some Hollywood effect!”
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Micheál previously told PEOPLE that his favorite movie of his mother’s was 1998’sParent Trap"because I just see her so much as that person."
“When you lose somebody so close to you, sometimes you just push it away and out of your head because the thought of them hurts,” he explained. “But I found that’s an unhealthy thing to do. You have to remember them.”
source: people.com
