Antonio Banderas Is the Latest Aging Action Star to Get His Own 'Taken' Style Movie

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The bummer reality of Hollywood is that the older you get, the fewer roles you get. This is brutally true for women, whose options for characters and franchises can go from "Leading Lady" to "Mom #2" seemingly over night. But in recent years aging men have gotten a bit of a leading man loop hole, and it's largely thanks to Liam Neeson and his Taken franchise. Those movies were so remarkably successful that it seems like every big name actor who made an action movie in the '80s or '90s is now getting their own movie about a grizzled old guy trying to live a simple life until some bad dudes take someone they love. Neeson's made a whole new career out of it. Sean Penn got in on the action with The Gunman. John Travolta and Nicolas Cage both have a...
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