He was once one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars, an unrivalled A-lister who took hits like Braveheart and Lethal Weapon to the top of the box office charts.
But since Mel Gibson’s career was mired by a string of abusive incidents and vile anti-Semitic remarks, he’s landed in an unofficial movie jail – with producers too anxious to go near him.
The 64-year-old actor has most recently been reportedly left out of plans for the Netflix Chicken Run sequel after Winona Ryder accused him of anti-Semitism.
He was the voice of Rocky, one of the main characters in the original Chicken Run in 2000.
Ryder claims Gibson asked her at a party in 1995 if she was a Jewish “oven dodger” – an apparent reference to the ovens used to burn the bodies of Jews murdered in Nazi death camps.
The Stranger Things star also alleged that at the same party Gibson asked a gay friend of hers: “Oh, wait, am I gonna get AIDS?”
Ryder said the Mad Max actor later tried to apologise for the remarks, but a representative for Gibson said the allegations are “100 per cent untrue”.
But even that alleged incident is just one of many public disgraces attached to Gibson’s name which have damaged his reputation and made him a pariah for many Hollywood executives.
Here’s how the father-of-nine landed himself in ‘movie jail’ – from stomach-turning domestic violence to a racist drink-driving rant.
Read the article by Dan Hall (The Sun) in the Herald Sun.