Liam Neeson's career finished?

Racist comments during a film promotional interview make it likely.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47117177

https://metro.co.uk/2019/02/05/pier...sy-mel-gibsons-anti-semitic-comments-8441302/

I doubt if he'll ever get another role.

Quite right too, in this case.

 

Totally agree. It's a shame as I always thought he was a decent bloke.

Tbh his recent films have been pretty **** though so I don't think he'll be missed.

 

Always came across as a bit of an oddball.

 

I think he went a bit weird after his wife died. Certainly seemed happy to take any and every role however good or bad. He did seem to favour the violent hard man roles since then.

 

Had he framed it as an insight into his racism he may have enlightened a few people, but it doesn’t appear he did. Hopefully he’ll be very, very contrite.

 

That's unbelievable. What was he trying to achieve by saying that? I mean I always thought he was one of the worst actors out there but this is the end of him.

...and ZZ, can you not link to Piers Morgan again please?

 

Bizarre interview. What is going though his head?

Latest film sounds a belter. “Snowplough driver who seeks vengeance on some drug dealers”.

 

Actors get paid for pretending to be someone. something most of stopped doing before we hit puberty. Why on earth does anyone idolise them, or have any time for, or any interest in what they think, their political views etc.

Got a feeling there's underlying issues here, not just racism.

 

The least convincing hard man in hollywood.

Any one of us could effortlessly weave him into the scenery. As would the "black *******" have done.

 

Tearing the head off it over pictures in smash hits is not really idolising someone.

 

But the question remains, how does the snowplough driver get to work?

 

Classic VW ad from 1964.

The most successful consumer product designed by a fascist leader.

 

Whatever floats your boat RC I won't judge.

 

Sounds like he's going full Stephen Seagal taking gigs like that.

 

I think people need to put the pitchforks away for the time being and read the interview.

He admits it's an abhorrent way of thinking and he was guilty of racial profiling. He came to his senses, realised he was wrong and learned from it.

It's actually quite a brave thing to admit.

How many people were guilty of racial profiling following the 7/7 attacks?

 

Herr Porsche designed the VW, not Herr Hitler. Dunno if he was a fascist but he certainly wasn't a leader

 

The thought police are out in force I see.

 

He was in the SS at least.

 

My sources tell me that the original curved design was drawn by Hitler in his first meeting with Porsche to commission the project.

This rings true to me.

Hitler was a detail man & had a strong sense of the aesthetic. He was closely involved in the staging of the rallies & Speer was in his closest circle.

I believe the estimable Richard J Evans confirms the anecdote.

 

I concede. Game, set and match!

 

He's never really recovered from the kidnapping. Or the second kidnapping.

 

I was going to copyright a film script about a man whose daughter is kidnapped and he sets out to rescue her, but it was Taken.

Then I was going to copyright a film script about a couple who are kidnapped and their daughter sets out to rescue them, but it was Taken 2.

 

Glad Barnes has spoken out like that - I think he's spot on.

Neeson "outed" himself voluntarily and in no uncertain terms criticised his previous thoughts/actions/state of mind. He had an irrational emotional response and is brave enough to admit it.

 

I would draw the court's attention to my post of the not-so-recent past, on the subject of La Neeson.

That will be all.

 

Back from travels on Friday. I may be able to find a pic.

 

Needs to reform with his brother and write some more songs.

 

Funny, I started off being more understanding of his honesty.

But the more I read and listened to it, the more I turned against him.

First of all almost his first question was to ask what colour he was. As he wasn't in a position to actually do anything with the answer, I can't see the point of asking the question.

Secondly, this wasn't a mere case of racial profiling as he he wasn't looking to catch "black rapists", in the same way that an anti-pickpocket team of police in Oxford Street may concentrate on groups of mixed sex East Europeans, he was looking to kill any black man, knowing full well it would not be the actual perpetrator. It would have been bordering on a hate crime. A comparison with racial profiling after 7/7 isn't a good one in my view. Yes, we may have felt that a bomber was more likely to be, say from the middle east, but once you start to believe that every person from the middle east deserves to be hurt or killied due to 7/7, then it starts to be pure racism, in my view.

In my view, it wasn't an irrational emotional response in the normal way, either, as that would normally be fairly short-lived, whereas as in his case he went out armed for a full week. In fact I wouldn't put it past him to have exaggerated the story for effect.

Maybe his honesty deserves some praise, but I am sure he will regret it.

 

The only true part of the tale is the bit where he admits he's a racist. The bit where he went out tooled up night after night is quite simply a lie.

I suspect his actual reaction to the crime was to install a panic room in his mansion in case the big bad black people came for him next.

 

He was admitting to being racist in 1970s/80s northern Ireland, he didn't do it now!

The reaction in the media, for me, has been absurd.