Wynona Ryder reveals anti-Semitic remark by Mel Gibson

[RandySF]

Winona Ryder claims Mel Gibson once referred to her as an "oven dodger".

The 48-year-old actress has admitted to experiencing anti-semitism within the movie industry, and has recalled one particularly uncomfortable conversation with Mel, 64, at a party.

She shared: "We were at a crowded party with one of my good friends, and Mel Gibson was smoking a cigar, and we're all talking and he said to my friend, who's gay, 'Oh wait, am I gonna get Aids?' And then something came up about Jews, and he said, 'You're not an oven dodger, are you?'"

Winona - who revealed Mel tried to apologise to her at a later date - was particularly upset by the actor's comments as she "had family who died in the camps".

Asked about her family's background, she told the Sunday Times newspaper: "Not religious, but I do identify. It's a hard thing for me to talk about because I had family who died in the camps, so I've always been fascinated with that time."

Winona also revealed she was once overlooked for a movie role because she looked "too Jewish".

She explained: "There are times when people have said, 'Wait, you're Jewish? But you're so pretty!'

"There was a movie that I was up for a long time ago, it was a period piece, and the studio head, who was Jewish, said I looked 'too Jewish' to be in a blue-blooded family."



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[jcgoldie]

1. Fuck Mel Gibson

What a piece of shit.

[FreeState]

8. +1 Antisemitic Homophobic bigot n/t

[Ex Lurker]

2. I thought it was common knowledge that he was antisemitic nt

[Maru Kitteh]

4. This

[sakabatou]

6. Same

[BigmanPigman]

9. It is.

[RockRaven]

3. Mel Gibson is a lunatic P.O.S. and people in Hollywood who work with him should

be treated with as much contempt/side-eye as those who work with Woody Allen or Roman Polanski.

Which in all three cases is nowhere near enough, from what I've seen.......

[flying_wahini]

5. Gossipy; but what the hell,

I heard from someone in Hollywood that his nickname was ‘Smelly Gibson’
cuz he never showered
And stunk up a room, fast.

[Crunchy Frog]

7. He's a well known hater of anything not affiliated with his own extremist Catholic sect.

He even believed that his own long suffering wife was going to hell.

I think the only reason he made it big in Hollywood was that he was pretty when he was younger.

[roamer65]

10. Gibson is a washed up hack.

Just like that piece of shit Vaughn.

[ms liberty]

11. Mel Gibson is his father's son

It's pretty well known that his father was an antisemitic raving bigot. Mel landed much closer to the tree than people realized. He hid it well for many years.