Liam Neeson

On top of spending hours in the makeup chair, Neeson was also training for a boxing movie at the time.

In both sequels, Arnold Vosloo took over the role from Neeson. As of this writing, Raimi is currently discussing the possibility of a fourth "Darkman" movie, and Neeson has said he was also amenable to a return. For the better part of the following decade, Neeson was more frequently asked to ball up his fists than do any kind of soul searching. That started off as five hours in the make-up chair and we got it down to three. In both cases, however, Neeson was getting up before dawn to train for "Crossing the Line," aka "The Big Man," a film that features a lot of glove-free fist fighting. As he explained to Collider in 2020, however, Neeson still recalls the time with fondness. It also featured some rather extensive "monster" makeup on Neeson, whose face had to be three-quarters "removed." Darkman sported a pair of bone-exposed hands, red pulpy facial flesh, and no lips, leaving his teeth constantly bared (that Darkman can pronounce words without much difficulty is simply a matter of suspension of disbelief). In order to get into the elaborate gore makeup (which was designed by Rick Baker and Stan Winston acolyte Tony Gardner), Neeson had to initially start his day with five hours in the makeup chair.