{"id":1466927,"date":"2022-05-06T16:14:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T20:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466927"},"modified":"2022-05-06T16:14:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T20:14:39","slug":"liam-neeson-makes-cameo-on-atlanta-apologizes-for-hurting-people-with-racist-comment-from-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liam-neeson-makes-cameo-on-atlanta-apologizes-for-hurting-people-with-racist-comment-from-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Neeson Makes Cameo On \u2018Atlanta,\u2019 Apologizes For \u2018Hurting People\u2019 With Racist Comment From 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliam-neeson-makes-cameo-on-atlanta-apologizes-for-hurting-people-with-racist-comment-from-2019%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1466927&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Liam-Neeson-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Actor Liam Neeson made a surprise cameo on \u201cAtlanta\u201d and apologized for \u201churting people\u201d with a racist comment he made in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The 69-year-old actor showed up on the eighth episode of the show\u2019s fourth season, titled \u201cNew Jazz,\u201d playing a fictional version of himself while sitting in a bar talking to one of the main characters Alfred \u201cPaper Boi\u201d Miles (played Brian Tyree Henry) about comments he made during an interview he gave in 2019 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2019\/02\/liam-neeson-responds-racist-revenge-black-man-rape-1202041303\/\">The Independent<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/tv\/news\/liam-neeson-atlanta-racism-backlash-1235260511\/\">reported<\/a> Variety in a piece published Friday.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the \u201cStar Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace\u201d star talked about what happened 40 years ago when a friend of his was raped and he \u201cwent up and down areas with a cosh\u201d for \u201cmaybe a week\u201d hoping \u201csome Black b****** would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something \u2026 so that I could kill him.\u201d He admitted at the time he was \u201cashamed to say that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou might\u2019ve heard or read about my transgression,\u201d Neeson\u2019s character tells Paper Boi in the show this week. \u201cYou know, what I said about what I wanted to do to a black guy, any black guy, when I was a younger man in London. A friend of mine had been raped and I acted out of anger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look back now and it honestly frightens me,\u201d he adds. \u201cI thought people knowing who I once was would make clear who I am, who I\u2019ve become. But with all that being said, I am sorry. I apologize if I hurt people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s good to know that you don\u2019t hate black people now,\u201d Miles responds.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zVLjVtzz0Y\">pic.twitter.com\/zVLjVtzz0Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 v (@ViralMaterial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ViralMaterial\/status\/1522561486882844673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNo, no I can\u2019t stand the lot of you,\u201d Neeson\u2019s character replies. \u201cWell, now I feel that way because you tried to ruin my career. Didn\u2019t succeed, mind you. However, I\u2019m sure one day I will get over it, but until then, we are mortal enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paper Boi then asks Neeson if he had learned \u201cyou shouldn\u2019t say s*** like that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAye,\u201d the \u201cTaken\u201d star\u2019s character replies. \u201cBut I also learned that the best and worst part about being white is, we don\u2019t have to learn anything if we don\u2019t want to. Take it easy, Paper Boi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the Independent interview surfaced, the \u201cBlacklight\u201d star clarified his remarks in 2019 during his appearance on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/culture\/story\/liam-neeson-clarifies-controversial-revenge-remarks-im-racist-60849164\">Good Morning America<\/a>.\u201d He explained at the time that he\u2019s not a \u201cracist\u201d and \u201cdefinitely\u201d would\u2019ve had the same reaction if the person was white.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was trying to show honor, to stand up for my dear friend in this terrible medieval fashion,\u201d Neeson said at the time. \u201cI am a fairly intelligent guy. That\u2019s why it kind of shocked me when I came down to earth after having these terrible feelings. Luckily, no violence occurred. I did want to lash out because my friend was brutally raped and I was defending her honor. It was a learning curve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Liam Neeson made a surprise cameo on \u201cAtlanta\u201d and apologized for \u201churting people\u201d with a racist comment he made in 2019.The 69-year-old actor showed up on the eighth episode<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1481922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}