'Downton Abbey' Season 5 Cast & Spoilers: Liam Neeson Joins Series as Stableman?

Liam Neeson may be a big action star, but that does not mean TV projects do not interest him. The Irish actor expressed that he wants to portray a role in "Downton Abbey."

He told London Live during an interview, "Maybe Dan (Stevens) could have a word with them. I must speak to him (about that),"

But he's not aiming to be one of the blue bloods, though. "Maybe I could be a stableman or something I definitely wouldn't cut the hierarchy, ya know?"

Neeson is not the only one interested in getting a role for "Downton Abbey." Just recently, it was announced that George Clooney will appear in a special episode for the series this Christmas.

Playing a part for the drama series would be a drastic change of pace for the action star. Over the years, he starred in a lot of thrillers, including his role as a former CIA agent whose daughter was kidnapped in "Taken."

In his latest flick, "A Walk Among the Tombstones," he plays a private investigator who was hired by a drug lord to find out who murdered his wife. The reviews for the movie were mostly negative, but with praises for the 62-year-old actor.

The Toronto Sun had this to say about Neeson's performance: "at 62, the man has such physical presence (he only recently gave up boxing as exercise) that he lifts the flimsiest action vehicles a notch above plain silly."

Meanwhile, an article on Time.com noted that, "Neeson brings Scudder far more gravity than the young Bridges did to the earlier movie. At 62, Neeson is a leading man with a face of chiseled concrete, an action-film hero whose natural state is grim stasis." The article also added, "it does let Neeson assert his primacy as the cinema's most graven, grieving, grievous senior citizen - a figure who doesn't so much star in his films as haunt them."

The AV Club commented, "With the exception of one unsettling interlude involving a cemetery groundskeeper (ólafur Darri ólafsson), there's not much to distinguish Tombstones from any number of procedural mysteries, at least not in terms of plot or performance," later on adding that "Some kudos are due, however, to Frank and Neeson-the latter continuing his run as this generation's answer to Charles Bronson-for handling Scudder's commitment to sobriety with credible understatement."

Neeson still has more projects going his way. According to the Independent UK, he is also among the top contenders for the adaptation of Harlan Coben's thriller, "Tell No One," with Universal Pictures still reportedly courting him for the role.

Whether or not Neeson will have time for more projects than he already has, fingers are still crossed that he's going to find a role for "Downton Abbey." Series 5 returns on Sunday night.