Liam Neeson has started a race push in the wake of making remarks about once needing to murder a dark individual.
He says he strolled the roads with a weapon, wanting to slaughter somebody as retribution after somebody near him was assaulted by a dark man.
The performing artist, who was advancing his new film Cold Pursuit, told the Independent that "there's something basic" when you wind up irate.
The BBC has reached Liam Neeson's delegates for input.
In the meeting, he stated: "God preclude you've at any point had an individual from your family harmed under criminal conditions. I'll disclose to you a story. This is valid."
Neeson said the supposed assault occurred quite a while prior and he got some answers concerning it when he returned from a trek abroad. The on-screen character proceeded to utilize racially hostile language about the aggressor.
He stated: "She took care of the circumstance of the assault in the most phenomenal way.
"Be that as it may, my quick response was... I asked, did she know it's identity? No. What shading would they say they were? She said it was a dark individual.
went all over territories with a cosh, trusting I'd be drawn nearer by someone - I'm embarrassed to state that - and I did it for possibly seven days, trusting some [uses quotation hands with fingers] 'dark knave' would leave a bar and have a go at me about something, you know? With the goal that I could murder him."
Neeson, whose new film sees him star as a snowplow driver looking for vengeance against street pharmacists he supposes slaughtered his child, has been liable to a great deal of analysis via web-based networking media over the meeting for what has been viewed as racially charged remarks.
Javon Johnson said on Twitter that the remarks were "brutally disposing of dark people" but on the other hand were "spooky by man controlled society" since "he transformed his companion's rape into a stage for his own need to demonstrate his male strength
Neeson alluded back to his remarks later in the meeting, including: "It was terrible, ghastly, when I recollect, that I did that. What's more, I've never conceded that, and I'm stating it to a columnist. God preclude.
"It's dreadful. Be that as it may, I learned an exercise from it."
The 66-year-old, who is best known for Schindler's List and the spine chiller arrangement Taken, likewise portrayed experiencing childhood in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, amid the Troubles.
"I knew two or three folks that kicked the bucket on yearning strike, and I had colleagues who were gotten up to speed in the Troubles, and I comprehend that requirement for vengeance, yet it just prompts more retribution, to all the more murdering and all the more slaughtering, and Northern Ireland's confirmation of that.
"So much stuff that is going on the planet, the brutality, is evidence of that, you know. However, that base need, I comprehend," he included
