With the recent tragic passing of beloved filmmaker Rob Reiner, a lot of eyes have been on what many consider his magnum opus and one of the best fantasy films ever made, The Princess Bride. Based on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Actor Liam Neeson may be 6’4” but that wasn’t tall enough when he auditioned for the role of Fezzik in “The Princess Bride,” which ...

Neeson said the director wanted someone taller than the actor's 6-foot-4 frame to play the giant Fezzik in the 1987 fantasy classic Tommy McArdle is a Writer-Reporter on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He ...

Liam Neeson revealed that filmmaker Rob Reiner was unhappy to discover the actor was not tall enough to play the giant Fezzik in the 1987 movie The Princess Bride "[Reiner] turns to the casting ...