What happened during Liam Neeson’s 2019 racism controversy? Explained
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Liam Neeson during his recent appearance at the “Atlanta” spoke about his own racism controversy of 2019. While it was a few years back when Liam made a lot of buzz with the controversy on a black man. He recently took a dig at his own words that hurt a lot of people. But what did the actor say on “Atlanta” in connection to his controversy?
Read ahead to know more about Liam Neeson and his appearance at “Atlanta”.
2019 Racism controversy of Liam Neeson
It was an incident of the past back in 2019 when Liam was promoting his project Cold Pursuit. In that particular movie, Liam had a character where he takes revenge for his murdered son. Recalling the story of the movie, he even ended up sharing an instance of his real life.
They got Liam Neeson talking about his racist comment at a place called “Cancel Club” on the newest episode of #AtlantaFX 😳😳😳 pic.twitter.com/1iLI4gMRqh
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The incident was actually about his friend who was assaulted. While he couldn’t know who the culprit of the assault was. He did come to know, that he was someone black. It made him get filled with a raging feeling that he wanted to kill any African American at that time.
Liam Neeson’s racism controversy hurt many people
While his African American comment in 2019 didn’t go well with a lot of people. His idea of not targeting the culprit specifically and instead targeting the race actually got critical reaction from all at that time. In fact social media went abuzz with his comment during that time.
Certainly, his comments that became a racism controversy actually ended up hurting a lot of people. However, recently on “Atlanta”, Liam did bring back his controversial comment and clarified what made him do it and if he felt sorry about it or not.
Not Liam Neeson at the "Cancel Club" "No one expects to be here." SAVAGE. "The best and worst part about being White is you don't have to learn anything if you don't want to… #ATLANTA #AtlantaFX #AtlantaSeason3 pic.twitter.com/4tFEwsJlc9
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Liam Neeson talked about his racism controversy on “Atlanta”
During a cameo presence at the fourth season of “Atlanta”. The eighth episode of the show however made Liam Neeson talk about his own words that hurted a lot of people. There the actor portrayed his own character at the bar “Cancel Club”. As the eighth episode had Paper Boi as well with Liam. The controversy of the latter popped again.
The episode showed Liam stating about his back then anger on his friend who was ra*ed. He said sorry to all those whom he hurt with his comment. Paper Boi too appreciated that Liam is no longer having any grudges against the black people now.
Liam Neeson tackles his racism controversy in ‘Atlanta’ cameo.
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In 2019, the actor said once stalked the streets looking for a “black bastard” to kill after someone close to him told him she had been raped. https://t.co/ssvVnkCVXM
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