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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMel Gibson disgraces himself again (Jake Tapper/Winona Ryder/Twitter)
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Text: Jake Tapper: Winona Ryder: Mel Gibson said to my friend, whos gay, Oh wait, am I gonna get AIDS? And then something came up about Jews, and he said, Youre not an oven dodger, are you?'
Uggggg "Oven dodger"???
OnDoutside
(20,633 posts)She has done some amazing work. Girl, Interrupted is one of the best films of the '90s IMO.
OnDoutside
(20,633 posts)LiberalFighter
(53,392 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)I'm thinking back to the innocent days of The Road Warrior and Lethal Weapon II, before it was common knowledge he was a vicious anti semite and clueless homophobe.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Exclude him from all things Hollywood.
frogmarch
(12,217 posts)And there's this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/11/mel-gibson-is-not-sorry/506225/
Aristus
(68,067 posts)a sweet man' in 3...2...1...
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)The irony is, if George Miller hadn't cast Mel Gibson in the original Mad Max, I think Gibson would have become an obscure Australian farmer nobody ever heard of.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)I dont remember ever thinking someone looked Jewish. Maybe I dont know what to look for.
Or maybe I just dont care.
zipplewrath
(16,682 posts)My jewish spouse is always amazed that I can't spot an "obvious" jew. She frequently says, "oh, yeah he's jewish with a bag over his head". Apparently there are obvious jews, but not all jews are obvious. I suspect it is basically some eastern european appearance.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)But I want to add a fictional conversation, here, between Gibson and his agent that immediately followed this interview:
Mel: Yeah? What did you think?
Agent: I think youre an absolute, friggin moron who just made my job ten times harder. Thats what I think.
Mel: Now, wait a minute. You work for me.
Agent: Thats right. I actually WORK FOR YOU. I got you that appearance so that you could get some public exposure, look good, and remind everyone out there that you are still available for acting gigs. And you screw it all up by accusing Winona Ryder of being an oven dodger. An oven dodger? How am I supposed to work with that?
Mel: I was just joking.
Agent: Oh, I know. Hardy har har. Look, moron, that shit aint funny, and nobody is gonna care that you were just joking. You said it. People heard it, and now I am stuck with it. Its gonna be MUCH harder for me to get you acting roles again.
Mel: I dont have to listen to this shit. You work for me.
Agent: At this point, I will be lucky if I can get you a commercial gig peddling depends underwear, but Ill try.
Mel: I can fire your ass, you know.
Agent: Go ahead! I doubt you could find another respectable agent at this point.
...
Mel thinks about it.
...
Mel: Fine. Im going out for a drink. Ill talk to you in the morning.
Agent: You do that. Just keep your mouth shut when youre out in public, OK? That will be best for all concerned.
CLICK
-Laelth
still_one
(95,853 posts)right kind of Christian. She was Protestant, not Catholic
https://www.today.com/popculture/mel-gibson-says-his-wife-could-be-going-hell-wbna4224452
Gibson is a bigot, anti-Semite, anti-gay, etc etc etc
Archae
(46,736 posts)Gibson's Dad was a vicious neo-Nazi.