It turns out Liam Neeson understands his vengeful roles in films like “Taken” and “Cold Pursuit” a little too well. In a new interview with The Independent , the actor makes the shocking admission that he once wanted to kill a black person to avenge a loved one’s rape.
During the interview, the actor attempts to explain how he learned the “primal needs” of violence and revenge “just lead to more revenge and killing.” It started when an unnamed loved one told him she was raped. When she admitted she didn’t know who it was, Neeson asked her “what color” they were, and she said black.
There’s no telling why the actor thought it’d be a good idea to dish this to a journalist, but he reveals thatfor the next “week and a half” or so going out on “walks” armed with a nightstick hoping to run into “some ‘black bastard’” so he could “kill him” to avenge her. “It was horrible, horrible, when I think back, but I did that,” he adds. “But I did learn a lesson from it.”
ONE MORE THING!As expected, the Twitterverse has exploded with opinions about Neeson’s comments – mostly outrage. While some think the context of his story is important to note, others are just calling him out for being racist – not only for implying the death of any random black person would count as “revenge” for the crime of one particular person who happens to be black, but also because his first question to the victim was “what color” the rapist was instead of, say, how tall or how old they were.