The United States premiere for Cold Pursuit, in which Neeson plays a man seeking revenge for his son's killers, went ahead. On Monday, Neeson told the British newspaper The Independent that he related to characters in his movies such as Taken who seek revenge when someone close to them is hurt. He said a female friend told him decades ago that she had been raped by a man who was black. On Tuesday, Neeson told GMA that he had felt a "primal urge to lash out" at the time. "It was horrible, horrible when I think back, that I did that," Neeson said on GMA.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 06, 2019 21:22 UTC