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Neeson was filming sex scene for Allen during Soon-Yi scandal

Non-stop” star Liam Neeson was filming a sex scene for Woody Allen at the very moment the director received a call that his long-term partner Mia Farrow had discovered naked photos Allen took of Farrow’s adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn.

Neeson starred with Farrow in Allen’s 1992 drama “Husbands and Wives,” and was in bed with actress Judy Davis when Allen suddenly went missing.

“There was one incident — people think I’ve made this up, but no,” Neeson reveals in GQ’s April issue. “There’s a scene where I’m [performing a sex act] on Judy Davis, right. Judy and I are in bed — obviously covered up . . . the crew are all ready, and we’re waiting for Woody. No-show. It’s starting to get a bit uncomfortable.”

Neeson, 61, continues of the awkward moment, “Anyway, he came out after about 20 minutes . . . there was no apology, nothing. What happened: His lawyer had gotten in touch with him to say Ms. Farrow has found naked photographs of her adopted daughter [Soon-Yi].” Reps for Allen, who later wed Previn, didn’t get back to us.

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Neeson tells GQ that he and Farrow formed a bond and she later gave him love advice regarding Natasha Richardson, whom Neeson married in 1994. “A few months later, Mia was doing a film with Natasha in Ireland,” he relates. “We had a couple of Guinnesses one night, and I told [Mia] I was going to marry this woman.”

The Irish screen star also says he gave up booze after Richardson’s tragic death in 2009. “I gave up drinking a year ago,” he says, adding he could “easily” down two bottles of pinot noir when socializing. After his wife’s death, he also gave up the lead role in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln.”

“I maybe did four years of research,” Neeson says of the film. “Natasha died in March and then [in April] Steven got together a reading . . . We started reading . . . and I just [had] a thunderbolt moment. I thought, ‘I’m not supposed to be here. I’ve passed my sell-by date. I don’t want to play this Lincoln. I can’t be him.” Daniel Day-Lewis won the Oscar for the role.