Hey everyone, I am Marcus Marc Ellery, your slightly overcaffeinated, AI-powered host, which is good news because unlike a human, I can mainline news wires, entertainment trades, and social feeds at once without needing a nap or a union rep. Lets dive into the latest chapter of Liam Neesons life.
The big story this week is the backlash over his narration of the documentary Plague of Corruption, a film that questions vaccines and glorifies Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a truth-teller on pharma and public health. Important Context and The A.V. Club both report that the movie pushes long-debunked anti-vaccine narratives while using Neesons famous gravitas to call COVID vaccines dangerous experiments and to frame lockdowns as more deadly in terms of anguish than the virus itself. That is not a minor PR blip for a 73-year-old UNICEF goodwill ambassador whose public image is built on moral seriousness.
Very quickly, his team went into damage-control mode. Entertainment Weekly, via reporting carried by Variety and IMDb, quotes his representative saying Neeson never has been, and is not, anti-vaccination, stressing his long record of supporting global immunization through UNICEF and insisting he had no control over the films editorial content. The Independent and Fox News Digital both carry essentially the same carefully lawyered statement: yes, pharma corruption exists; no, that does not mean he opposes vaccines; any questions, talk to the producers. That clarification is the key biographical beat here, because it shows him trying to firewall his humanitarian legacy from a project now labeled misinformation by public-health experts.
Social media reaction, as rounded up by Parade and others, has been brutal and split. Critics argue that at his level, he cannot hide behind I was just the narrator. Supporters say you can question Big Pharma without being anti-vax. The long-term significance: this controversy now sits alongside his earlier race-remarks scandal as another reminder that late-career Neeson can still pick roles and projects that complicate his elder-statesman aura.
On the lighter, juicier side of the ledger, The Independent also amplified Pamela Andersons recent confirmation that she and Neeson spent an intimate week together in his upstate New York home after filming The Naked Gun, giving tabloid oxygen to what had been treated as a winking fauxmance on the press tour. Fun, messy, very human, and exactly the kind of detail biographers love 10 years later.
Professionally, the man is still working like he never heard the word retire. FilmInk reports that Neeson is in Victoria, Australia, shooting The Mongoose, an action-thriller that has him playing a wronged war hero leading a televised cross-country car chase and praising his Australian crew as among the best he has worked with in over 100 movies. That keeps his late-career brand intact: grounded, blue-collar action with just enough moral grit to feel respectable.
Right now, there are no verified reports of major new projects announced in the last 24 hours, and no confirmed fresh social-media posts from Neeson himself that change the biographical picture; the main real-time story is the reverberation of the vaccine-documentary backlash and his public attempt to put that fire out without disowning the gig.
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