Liam Neeson

[DeeLicious]

has he killed his own career?

[murraymints]

premier pulled..all going T up in the States..if this was meant to be a publicity stunt..then he has ill judged the PC climate of the time..

[dave50]

Sick of hearing about it now, anyone would think he actually murdered someone. Get over it, move on for goodness sake.

[murraymints]

don't think Old Liam will be as dismissive !

[naomi24]

What a ridiculous fuss this is.

[murraymints]

might seem that way on the surface, but is having serious repercussions for Liam Neeson !!

[ummmm]

People will forget soon enough.

[naomi24]

They will - and so they should. This is stupid.

[ethandron]

The premiere wasn’t cancelled, just Liam’s appearance and the red carpet.
I think he’s great and this furore hasn’t changed my opinion of him one bit.

[anneasquith]

I repeat,,,,,, 40+ years ago.

[maggiebee]

For goodness sake - a storm in a teacup. The incident happened 40 years ago. Liam didn't actually harm anyone and had no need to open up about this - actually confused as to why he did. How many can remember what they thought or did 40 years ago? He is a brilliant actor and I have recently watched him in Widows in which he was married to a "black" actress - Viola Davis. Brilliant film.

[ToraToraTora]

He was talking about his new film, he was saying he once parodied the main character was ashamed of the rage he felt at the time. In among all the hysterics there is at least one black man that gets it:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6669269/John-Barnes-launches-furious-defence-Liam-Neeson.html

[ToraToraTora]

all the networks had a "horrified" black person on this morning. If only they could look beyond their insecurities for a second they'd see that this is anything but racist. They seem to play the race card in all situations without a seconds thought.

[Rockrose]

If he didn't want this type of publicity he should have kept his mouth shut - he didn't so he and everyone else needs to accept the full pile of manure coming his way.

[retrocop]

Honesty and acceptance of self shame no longer appears to be a virtue any longer. I would rather he admitted what he did, with great regret and remorse, twenty years ago than listening to some virtue signalling luvvie telling us all how many asylum seekers and economic immigrants they are going to house. We are waiting Lilly Allen and Geildof.

[jim360]

Well, I mean, the original incident was very much racist, but the apology and shame shouldn't be brushed aside like they have been by some.

[Calicogirl]

I think it was less the incident and more the terminology he used.
If he'd have said ' I was so enraged and angry and hellbent on revenge that I was blinded to my own normal morals and sensibilities and I went around for a week just hoping to encounter a black man to assault as some sort of surrogate for my rage. I don't hold racist opinions at all and I am shocked and shamed at myself for the way I briefly behaved and glad that I soon snapped myself back to decency and normality' then that would have been fine.
What he actually said was ' I went round looking for some black *******' which throws a whole different light on what he felt then and what he considers to be normal language about racial groups now.
It's essentially the same story just told in a different way and he's old and wise enough of the media that he should have known what would happen.I said yesterday this would be a very big deal over here and it really, really is.

[douglas9401]

Nothing

Happened

[naomi24]

//the original incident was very much racist//

Highly debateable and I would dispute that. The only reason he went out hoping to be attacked by a black man, thereby giving him (Neeson) the opportunity to wreak revenge, was because the rapist was black. As he said, had the attacker been of a different ethnicity, he wouldn’t have been looking for a black man.

[-Talbot-]

3 separate links to John Barnes... It does make you wonder.

[Peter Pedant]

oh - does anyone think he actually DID it?
or just sat in front of a whisley bottle and thought about it?

I mean at least Mark Wahlberg made it into Juvie Hall by being a bad boy...and DIcko did time for fraud, snf dirty den .....