Actor Liam Neeson made a disturbing admission in a new interview. The 66-year-old confessed that, after a loved one was raped, he roamed the streets, looking for a black man to kill. Click through the gallery for all the details.
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The Taken actor was discussing his new film, Cold Pursuit, which, like a lot of his other work, is about a man who wants to take violent revenge.
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He told Britain’s
Independent, “There’s something primal – God forbid you’ve ever had a member of your family hurt under criminal conditions. I’ll tell you a story. This is true.”
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Liam had found out about a loved one who had been raped. “I asked, did she know who it was? No. What color were they? She said it was a black person,” he recounted.
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“I went up and down areas with a cosh [British slang for a bludgeon] hoping I’d be approached by somebody — I’m ashamed to say that — and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some ‘black bastard’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him,” Liam said.
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“It took me a week, maybe a week and a half, to go through that. She would say, ‘Where are you going?’ and I would say, ‘I’m just going out for a walk.’ You know? ‘What’s wrong?’ ‘No no, nothing’s wrong,’” he remembered, not saying who the woman was.
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“It was horrible, horrible, when I think back, that I did that,” he said. “And I’ve never admitted that, and I’m saying it to a journalist. God forbid.”
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“It’s awful,” Liam admitted. “But I did learn a lesson from it, when I eventually thought, ‘What the f— are you doing,’ you know?”
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On Twitter, people took less kindly to the "lesson” Liam learned. “Sounds like Liam Neeson spent too much time watching his own movies and got toxic masculinity poisoning,” one person
wrote.
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Another
said, “Liam Neeson being ready to take any Black life over what one person allegedly did just shows how meaningless and inconsequential black lives are to some. Even him telling the story demonstrates a level of privilege and understating that there may not be repercussions.”
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The Taken actor was discussing his new film, Cold Pursuit, which, like a lot of his other work, is about a man who wants to take violent revenge.
He told Britain’s
Independent, “There’s something primal – God forbid you’ve ever had a member of your family hurt under criminal conditions. I’ll tell you a story. This is true.”
Liam had found out about a loved one who had been raped. “I asked, did she know who it was? No. What color were they? She said it was a black person,” he recounted.
“I went up and down areas with a cosh [British slang for a bludgeon] hoping I’d be approached by somebody — I’m ashamed to say that — and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some ‘black bastard’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him,” Liam said.
“It took me a week, maybe a week and a half, to go through that. She would say, ‘Where are you going?’ and I would say, ‘I’m just going out for a walk.’ You know? ‘What’s wrong?’ ‘No no, nothing’s wrong,’” he remembered, not saying who the woman was.
“It was horrible, horrible, when I think back, that I did that,” he said. “And I’ve never admitted that, and I’m saying it to a journalist. God forbid.”
“It’s awful,” Liam admitted. “But I did learn a lesson from it, when I eventually thought, ‘What the f— are you doing,’ you know?”
Photo credit: INSTARImages
On Twitter, people took less kindly to the "lesson” Liam learned. “Sounds like Liam Neeson spent too much time watching his own movies and got toxic masculinity poisoning,” one person
wrote.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
Another
said, “Liam Neeson being ready to take any Black life over what one person allegedly did just shows how meaningless and inconsequential black lives are to some. Even him telling the story demonstrates a level of privilege and understating that there may not be repercussions.”
