Liam Neeson has landed himself in hot water with animal rights group PETA after the actor said he ate wolf meat for his role in action thriller 'The Grey'.
The group has its claws out, accusing director Joe Carnahan of buying the meat so actors “would have a sense of the movie they were making."
“He bought the meat from a trapper, meaning that the wolves likely suffered horribly in traps before being killed,” PETA said in a statement on its website.
PETA has urged supporters to boycott the film following Neeson’s comments during a press conference saying he "went up for seconds of the wolf stew."
"It was very gamey," Neeson said. "But I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner."
PETA said it met with a film producer who assured the group they would only use computer-generated imagery and animatronic wolves but later reneged their promise.
“Don't just shy away—run away from The Grey,” the group urged viewers.
The organisation has also accused the film of portraying “family-orientated” wolves in a bad light.
“The writers paint a pack of wolves living in the Alaskan wilderness as bloodthirsty monsters, intent on killing every survivor of a plane crash by tearing each person limb from limb,” it said.
“Yet wolves aren't aggressive animals, and as Maggie Howell, the managing director of America's Wolf Conservation Center, says, ‘Wolves don't hunt humans - they actually shy away from them.’
‘The Grey’ follows a group of oil workers who fight for their survival as they are hunted by a pack of wolves after being left stranded in the artic following a plane crash in Alaska.
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