
During a press junket for his upcoming movie Cold Pursuit, actor Liam Neeson revealed he once roamed the streets with an insatiable urge to kill a âblack bastardâ after a close friend was allegedly raped by a black man.
Neeson relayed the story to The Independent while discussing his character in Cold Pursuit, a father who seeks revenge (a Neeson specialty) after his son is killed by drug lordâs gang:
It was some time ago. Neeson had just come back from overseas to find out about the rape. âShe handled the situation of the rape in the most extraordinary way,â Neeson says. âBut my immediate reaction wasâŚâ Thereâs a pause. âI asked, did she know who it was? No. What colour were they? She said it was a black person.
âI went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping Iâd be approached by somebody â Iâm ashamed to say that â and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [Neeson gestures air quotes with his fingers] âblack bastardâ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could,â another pause, âkill him.â
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Neeson admitted heâs disgusted by that impulse, which he said lasted for a week and a half. âIt was horrible, horrible, when I think back, that I did that,â he said.Â
âHoly shit,â said Neesomâs co-star, Tom Bateman.
Yeah, uh, agreed. Holy shit, dude. File this to the list of things we really didnât need to know about Liam Neeson.
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Neeson said he never shared the story of his week-long stint as a violent racist to anyone before this interview. A therapist would have likely been a better outlet for this confession.