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https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainmen...-gma-1.5006426

The red carpet at the premiere of Liam Neeson's latest film was abruptly cancelled Tuesday afternoon, in the wake of comments the actor made about his racist reaction to a past incident.

Organizers of the New York premiere of Cold Pursuit made the announcement just a couple hours before the event was supposed to start. The film's screening Tuesday night will continue as planned.

The 66-year-old actor appeared Tuesday on ABC's Good Morning America, a day after the publication of an article in which he revealed that nearly 40 years ago he had sought to confront and commit violence against random black men after learning that someone close to him had been raped.

Neeson says he had asked his friend about the race of the attacker, along with other descriptive characteristics, before heading out into black neighbourhoods on multiple occasions "looking to be set upon so that I could unleash physical violence."

In an interview published Monday in the U.K. Independent, Neeson said that after being told the attacker was black, he "went up and down areas with a cosh [stick or truncheon]" hoping a black person "would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him."

The Oscar-nominated actor says he's not a racist.

Liam Neeson admits violent thoughts about killing black person after friend was raped
However, he admitted feeling a "primal urge to lash out" before, eventually, becoming shocked by his behaviour.

After that, he says he sought help from a priest and close friends.

Can we stop trying to ruin peoples careers with all this stupid virtue signalling? Jesus Christ. He shouldn't have said a ####ing thing.