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Liam Neesonis sharing why his religious confessional days are behind him.
But the then-15-year-old Neeson soon learned that maybe honesty wasn’t the best policy.
As he explained to hostConan O’Brien, “So we start, and I had learned how to pleasure myself at home, under the sheets, right? I had looked up the appropriate word. I remember that … ‘Masturbate’? ‘Masturbation’? Okay. That seems harmless enough.”
But when he admitted it, the priest said, " ‘You what?!’ "
“This guy — literally, I mean, he almost said things like, ‘The grass will grow over the palm of your hand before you’re 21! Stop that evil practice!’ " Neeson recalled.
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“He’s shouting this!” Neeson continued, noting that there were older women just outside the confessional, praying on their knees, as he was being yelled at. “They can hear everything.”
“That was the last time I ever went,” added theTakenactor, to which O’Brien, 60, responded matter-of-factly after a laugh, “I think that’ll do it.”
Neeson, whose newest movieRetributionis in theaters now, previously admitted in an interview withVanity Fairearlier this year that, to this day,sex scenes are not his favoritething to film.
“I’ll be honest, when I see a sex scene, I just can’t look at them,” he said. “I just get embarrassed. I know they are choreographed and stuff, but I don’t need to see that.”
Liam Neeson.Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty
Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty
Asynopsis for the movie describesRetributionas “an immersive ticking clock thriller that straps audiences in for a high-octane ride of redemption and revenge.”
Retributionis in theaters now.
source: people.com
