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Liam Neeson’s Spanish Voice Got an Extortion Call. He Answered With a Line From Taken

Nate Holloway · October 3, 2026 · 6 min read

Gerardo Reyero has spent decades as the Latin American Spanish voice of Liam Neeson, Frieza and V. In an interview published today, ahead of Cali Pop Festival in Colombia, he tells how a scam caller hung up on Bryan Mills, and shares the slightly embarrassing warm-up he does every morning.

The call came over breakfast. Reyero was at his mother's house with his mother and his sister when the phone rang. He told El País of Cali that his mother answered and went pale, pleading with the caller: "Sir, why are you telling me this? No, sir, please..." His sister took the phone and started crying too.

Then he took it. The man on the line told him: "I'm telling your sister I'm going to kill you all, I know who you are, where you live, and if you don't give me this much money..." Reyero calls it "the classic extortion."

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