Liam Neeson has claimed “little leprechaun” Conor McGregor has given Eire “a foul identify”.
The Irish actor shared his views on the UFC throughout an interview with Men’s Health, the place he criticised McGregor particularly.
“UFC I can’t stand,” Neeson stated. “That to me is sort of a bar combat. I do know the practitioners are like, ‘No, you’re improper – the months of coaching we do…’ Why don’t you simply seize a beer bottle and hit the opposite man over the top? That’s the subsequent stage of the UFC.”
He added: “I hate it…. That little leprechaun Conor McGregor, he offers Eire a foul identify. I do know he’s match, and I like him for that. However I can’t take it.”
Neeson has confronted scrutiny prior to now following feedback in interviews. In 2019, the actor recounted a narrative the place he admitted he as soon as roamed the streets searching for a “Black bastard” to kill after studying an in depth good friend had been raped by a Black man.
Recalling the incident to the Independent, Neeson stated: “I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I’d be approached by any individual – I’m ashamed to say that – and I did it for possibly every week, hoping some ‘Black bastard’ would come out of a pub and have a go at me about one thing, you recognize? In order that I may kill him.”
The actor later apologised throughout an look on Good Morning America. “I’m not racist, this was 40 years in the past,” Neeson stated. “I used to be introduced up within the north of Eire. The Troubles. The ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s. There was a warfare happening within the north of Eire. I had acquaintances who have been concerned within the bother. The bigotry. One Catholic could be killed, the subsequent day a protestant could be killed. I grew up surrounded by that, however I used to be by no means surrounded by it.”
He added: “All of us fake we’re all politically appropriate. However typically you simply scratch the floor and also you uncover this racism and bigotry, and it’s there.”
Final 12 months, Neeson made a cameo look in Donald Glover’s Atlanta which tackled his racism controversy. Within the episode, Alfred Miles aka Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry) meets Neeson at a bar referred to as ‘Cancel Membership’ throughout a hallucination sequence.