“I just trusted the script,” Neeson told Variety. “And knew it would get better the more they worked on it. [Director Akiva Schaffer] was the co-writer but there was always another writer on set — a friend of Akiva’s, obviously — and they would supply alternate endings to scenes. ‘Try this, try that.'”

Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson’s connection was caught red-handed. “Naked Gun” co-writer Doug Mand revealed the model, 58, and actor, 73, had an instant bond while filming the new action comedy. The writer told The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday that he is “getting more texts about what’s going on with them than anything else.”

After more than a hundred films and a late-career run as Hollywood’s most unlikely action star, Liam Neeson is trading gunfights for gags. In Paramount’s new reboot of The Naked Gun , Neeson plays Frank Drebin Jr.