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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actor Liam Neeson denied Tuesday he was racist after revealing in an interview that he wanted to kill a black man in response to the rape of a friend who had said his aggressor was black.
The Irish star of the new film "Cold Pursuit", aged 66, responded to the violent reaction that he had expressed and told the American television channel "Good Morning America": "I am not a racist".
Neeson said that he had learned that society needed a broader discussion to end racism and fanaticism.
On Monday, Neeson told the British newspaper The Independent that he was referring to characters from his films such as "Taken" who were seeking revenge when one of their relatives was wounded. He added that a friend had told him several decades ago that she had been raped by a black man.
Neeson told the newspaper that he had spent "maybe a week" walking near a pub with a big stick and "hoping that a" black bastard "would come out of a pub and attack me. thing, you see? So that I can … kill him.
According to The Independent, Neeson put aerial citations around the term "black bastard". The newspaper published the sound of the interview on its website.
On Tuesday, Neeson told "GMA" that he had felt a "primary urge to go wild" at the time.
"I went deliberately into the dark areas of the city, hoping to be attacked," he said. "It shocked me and it hurt me … I looked for help, I went to see a priest."
Neeson said that no violence had occurred. He said that he would have looked for a white man if his friend had identified his attacker as being white.
"It was horrible, horrible when I think about it, that's what I did," Neeson told "GMA." It's awful, but I've learned a lesson. "
Reportage of Lisa Richwine; Edited by Howard Goller
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