Brooklyn Decker Says 'Battleship' Co-Star Liam Neeson Is 'Very Paternal'

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Can you imagine [url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/person/45905/personmain.jhtml"]Liam Neeson[/url] taking you out for a drink? We would expect to sit down at the bar for not even five minutes before some psychotic villain began gunning the place down. The next thing we know, Neeson is saving our lives in some action sequence that ends with an explosion and involves us standing up from behind the bar when it's over to see debris flying everywhere.

That's how you pictured it, too, right? No? OK... maybe it's a little far fetched. But in the least, being around Neeson would be [i]extremely[/i] intimidating, and we aren't the only ones who think so. [url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/person/1122354/personmain.jhtml"]Brooklyn Decker[/url], Neeson's co-star and daughter in the film "[url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/435857/moviemain.jhtml"]Battleship[/url]," agrees.



When our MTV News correspondent mentioned that Neeson is quite scary in the upcoming action movie, Decker replied, "He's supposed to be. You know, it's funny 'cause Liam's incredibly intimidating. He's 6'5", he's huge and he's [i]Liam Neeson[/i]. He's been in '[url="http://moviesblog.mtv.com/tag/star-wars"]Star Wars[/url].' He's a legend."



That movie credential alone is enough to make anyone a little uneasy around the actor. "I have to say that I was...nervous going into this movie and my first week working with [Neeson], he's like, 'Let's go out for a drink. I can tell you're nervous.'" Apparently, Decker had nothing to be nervous about. It turns out the actor has a very paternal nature about him.

"We go out for a drink, and he's like, 'Anything you want to ask me, just go for it.' And he told me funny stories and good memories and told me that I should just have fun and play with this experience," the actress said. "And I think, that seemed very paternal and made him very fatherly, so it was very easy for us to play father and daughter."

It looks like going out for a drink with Neeson is a lot less dramatic than our wild imaginations thought, but can you blame us? We have to live out our dream of meeting him somehow.

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