Same. I heard him make disparaging remarks along the lines of 'stupid American's and their guns' just after the success of the first "Taken" movie, where he portrayed an American father who used a range of firearms and other weapons to track down and eliminate scores of bad guys in the search to rescue his daughter from the kidnappers selling her as a sex slave.
I and hundreds of thousands other viewers saw that movie and applauded the representation of a father willing and able to do absolutely anything required to protect his daughter. Sure, it's a fictional tale, but it tells a story that is horrifying to fathers of young girls and lets us at least imagine that we could do the same in that situation because of the freedoms we enjoy in the USA.
Hearing Neeson spouting-off the way he did has forever ruined any affinity I had for watching any of his performances - past, present or future. It won't make any difference to him, but I feel better not supporting his work, even if the result means that I have to pass on movies that I might otherwise enjoy.
He grew up in Ballymena during the Troubles.
My father in law is from the same neighborhood and has Alzheimer’s. He frequently goes into a time warp where he can’t see us but is apparently interacting with people from his childhood.
We’re learning a lot from the flashbacks that he never talked about. Shootings in the street, home invasions, a kid burning to death in a fire started deliberately, “croppies lie down”.
Neeson has reasons for the American obsession with guns triggering him. I’d put money on it.
Exactly how I feel.