Liam Neeson grew up in a Catholic family of Balllymena Cotrrim and admitted that he grew up “surrounded by violence” even lost some friends on the 1981 star strike.
Liam Neeson is not certainly foreign to screen violence but the actor rarely opens upon growth during problems Northern Ireland.
The star of the dam grew in Ballymena, Co -antimAnd he was raised in a Catholic family with three sisters. As a teenager in the late 1960’s and early 70’s, Neeson would become too familiar with sectarian violence in the north, but admitted that for most of his childhood his parents protected him. Said he never understood politics until his peers began to get involved in protests after protests SUNDAY SUNDAY.
After starring in the land of the saints and sinners, Neeson admitted that he brought Some of his own memories and experiences In the film, saying, “I grew up there, surrounded by violence.”
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In a very controversial interview with The Independent in 2019, Neeson opened his relationship with violence and how he felt a strong desire to “kill” someone who coincided with the description of the person who sexually assaulted a woman close to him.
Neeson, who was found In the midst of a storm of racism After the interview, he spoke about revenge and how the impulse of remuneration never satisfies the way he thinks he will do.
“I sell a society – I grew up in northern Ireland in problems – And, you know, I met a couple of boys who died on hunger strike and I had acquaintances who were very trapped in the problems, “said Neeson.
“And I understand that the need for revenge, but it only leads to revenge, in addition to killing and more killings, and the northern Ireland test of this. All these things that are happening in the world, violence, is a proof of this, you know. But this primary need, I understand.”
During the 1981 hunger strike, 10 Irish Republicans died, including Bobby Sands, who became a header for movement. Sands’s best known portrait is by Michael Fassbender in the 2008 movie “Hunger”.
Fassbender played Sands in the last six weeks of his life during the hunger strike. The tragic episode of Irish history took place when Neeson was 29 years old, only two years older than Sands, who died at the age of 27.
It is not clear which of the ten men Neeson knew personally as he did not elaborate. Most men were in the late 1920’s and around the age of Neeson at that time.
In an interview from 2009, Neeson also commented on his proximity to violenceand his friends who fell on both sides.
“I never stop thinking – [the Troubles]”, He said.” I have met boys and girls who have been the authors of violence and victims. Protestants and Catholics. It’s part of my DNA. “
Neeson also admitted once in an interview that felt like a “second class citizen” who grew in Northern Ireland.
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