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.
But he makes his major money off of playing people doing violence with guns in his movies. I can no longer stomach him.
I can't see him playing the part formerly played by Leslie Neilsen who had a face you would laugh at just seeing it.
I am told this is his actual tombstone:
That seems like a plausible explanation. But whatever evil he experienced certainly hasn't stopped him from making a career representing violence. Weird.