Based on the interviews I've heard and read, Natasha said that she and her first husband, producer Robert Fox, had separated before she met Liam Neeson, but he obviously thought that her going to NY and doing the play would help the situation. He was even the one who suggested that she not give up on getting Liam to do the play with her. Still, she said she felt terrible when she had to tell him (and especially his three children), that she wanted a divorce.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "right away." She said she developed a crush on him but wasn't expecting it to lead to anything serious--just a "workplace crush." Others have said that after the show opened (they were in rehearsals for about two months before that), they went out to a favorite bar and grill every night and talked and talked and talked. Then, at some point before the production had to end because he had a film commitment in Poland (Shindler's List) and she had one coming up as well in Ireland (Widows' Peak), an actor friend of hers said that he noticed the relationship had changed. Something about their emerging from her dressing room with him wearing her lipstick and her lipstick gone. The actor quoted didn't seem to be a malicious sort, nor did he make a big deal out of it, so it could very well be true. Still, from other interviews Liam gave, it wasn't until they were apart (after being together every day for months), that it hit him. I guess he meant love. In an interview (I think it was one of his Charlie Rose interviews), he said he was fine until he "got to Auschwitz"--which is a pretty funny line.
Check out the TV interviews she did with Charlie Rose and the gazillion articles posted at http://www.natasha-richardson.org/boards.
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