Liam Neeson has replaced Mel Gibson in Hangover 2 after a revolt on set against the scandal-plagued Oscar star.
Neeson, star of Love Actually and The A Team, will play a tattoo artist in The Hangover 2, the follow-up to the raunchy 2009 hit comedy.
Neeson told Variety he 'just got a call to do a one day shoot on Hangover 2 as a tattoo artist in Thailand, and that's all I know about it.
Ditched: Mel Gibson's cameo role on the Hangover 2 will now be played by Liam Neeson, right, after complaints from the cast and crew
Gibson, whose reputation has been damaged by leaks of threatening phone calls to his ex-girlfriend, was dropped from the movie this week after unspecified objections by the cast.
The Mad Max actor also offended Hollywood's Jewish community in 2006 with an anti-Semitic tirade that followed a drunk driving arrest.
The planned comedy cameo in Hangover 2 was widely seen as a way for Gibson to improve his battered public image. The original movie was a popular hit and raked in more than $467 million at global box offices.
Celebrity media on Friday speculated that Hangover actor Zach Galifianakis may have been the star who most forcefully spoke up about not wanting to work with Gibson on the
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Galifianakis said in a radio podcast earlier this month that he was having problems on his latest movie.
'I'm in a deep protest right now with a movie I'm working on, up in arms about something.
'But I can't get the guys to (listen)...I'm not making any leeway...It's very frustrating,' he said on the alternative radio show, Comedy Death Ray.
Gibson, who won Oscars for directing and producing Braveheart and had a hit with The Passion of the Christ, returned to major movie acting in January in Edge of Darkness after eight years away.
But he has been embroiled for months in a bitter child custody dispute with his former lover, Russian-born singer Oksana Grigorieva. The pair split in early 2010.
Gibson, 54, has remained silent during months of damaging publicity and has rarely been seen in public.
The Hangover 2 follows the characters of the first film on a trip to Southeast Asia for a wedding and is scheduled for release in May 2011.
The first Hangover grossed $462 million worldwide at the box office.
source:dailymail