Liam Neeson raises controversy over comments on rape

Liam Neeson started a battle after commenting on the desire to kill a black person.

He says he's walked the streets with a weapon, hoping to kill someone in revenge for raping one of his relatives by a black man.

The actor, who was promoting his new movie Cold Pursuit, told The Independent that there was "something primordial" when one gets angry.

The BBC contacted representatives of Liam Neeson for comments.

In the interview, he said: "I do not hide from you that your family was injured in criminal conditions.I will tell you a story.It is true."

Neeson said the alleged rape had taken place a long time ago and that he was informed when he returned from a trip abroad. The actor then used offensive racist language about the attacker.

He said: "She handled the rape situation in the most extraordinary way.

"But my immediate reaction was … did I ask if she knew who it was? No. What color were they? She said that it was a black person.

"I went up and down with a group, hoping that someone would approach me – I'm ashamed to say it – and I did it for maybe a week, Hoping that [uses air quotes with fingers] "Black bastard" would come out of a pub and attack me for something, you know? So that I can kill him. "

Neeson, whose new film sees him as a snow-hunting star seeking revenge on drug dealers who he thinks he has killed his son, has been the subject of much criticism in social media during interview for alleged racism.

Javon Johnson said on Twitter that the remarks were "violently rejecting blacks" but also "haunted by patriarchy" because "he turned his friend's badual badault into a platform for his own need to prove his male dominance".

Julia Craven added"So, Liam Neeson 's response to a loved one being raped was: 1. Ask the race of the badailant, who tells us that his racism was deeply rooted before the badault. in black neighborhoods (presumably) in the hope of provoking black people so that he can murder them. "

Neeson recalled his comments later in the interview, adding, "It was horrible, horrible, when I think back to that, I did it, and I never admitted it. , and I tell it to a journalist.

"It's awful, but I learned a lesson from it."

The 66-year-old, known for Schindler's list and the Taken thriller series, he also grew up in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, during the Troubles.

"I knew two people who had died on hunger strike and very involved in the disturbances around me, I understand this need for revenge, but that only causes more revenge, more killings and more. murders, and The evidence of Northern Ireland.

"Everything that happens in the world, violence, is the proof, you know, but this basic need, I understand," he added.

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