WHEN YOU first heard it, it sounded as if Liam Neeson was offering an expression of life imitating art, speaking in an outtake from any of his
Taken trilogy or
Gangs of New York, or from
Non-Stop or
The Commuter, or a scene from his latest film,
Cold Pursuit: the famed Oscar-nominated Irish actor as the bludgeoning avenger, the everyman prowling the streets, seeking justice — or at least vengeance.
But Leeson’s admission in a Feb. 4 interview with
The Independent, was a deeply personal one, and all too real. The actor said that some 40 years ago while living in Northern Ireland, he was told by a friend that she’d recently been raped. “I asked: Did she know who it was? No. What color were they? She said it was a black person.”
Thus marginally informed, Neeson apparently wandered the streets brandishing a club and looking for a person of color, identity unknown. He told
The Independent: “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.” ...
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Image credit: Neeson: ABC News.
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