Make it so Liam! (Picture: Jamie McCarthy/NBC/Getty)

No sooner had we got over the news that George Clooney is going to be on Downton Abbey, Liam Neeson sent our minds into further overdrive, saying he’d love a role on the show too.

The actor – who is currently starring in new movie, A Walk Among the Tombstones – made the revelation during an interview with London Go.

When asked about the prospect of heading to the Granthams’, he said: ‘Maybe Dan [Stevens] could have a word with them. I must speak to him [about that].

So what role could he see himself playing?


‘Maybe I could be a stableman or something I definitely wouldn’t cut the hierarchy, ya know?’



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