Press gatherings with Liam Neeson was cancelled after rasismanklagelserna

the Film company has not given any official explanation as to why the event would be taken place on the red carpet in New York city, set. Variety, which refers to the source data, reports, however, that the decision was taken after Liam Neeson's statements that he many years ago had plans for a racist act of revenge.

interview with the british newspaper, the Independent, published on Monday, Liam Neeson told me that he once went around with a baton in several days and hoped that a ”black bastard” would jump on him.

" I'm ashamed to say this, and I did it maybe in a week – with the hope that a ”black bastard” (according to the magazine makes Neeson the quotation marks in the air) would come out from a pub and have a go at me for anything, you understand? So that I could kill him, " said Liam Neeson in the interview, according to the Independent.

the Episode took place, according to Neeson, almost 40 years ago – after a friend of the actor has been raped.

At the interview with the Independent, which took place in conjunction with a press conference for the new hämndfilmen "Cold pursuit", stressed Neeson that he has not injured anyone, and that he repented.

which received massive criticism for the statement, made on Tuesday a follow-up interview in ”Good morning America”. He rejected the then rasismanklagelserna and said that he would also have been looking for a white man if his friend had identified their perpetrators as white.

"It was terrible, terrible, when I think back, that I made it there," says Neeson of the tv-program.

" It was horrible, but I learned a lesson.