With Oscar season upon us and his new film, Apocalypto, nominated for a Golden Globe, Mel Gibson sat down for an interview with darkhorizons.com.
In the interview, the actor and director continues to apologize for his amusing, yet scary tequila-inspired roadside rant this summer, in which he made anti-Semitic and sexually abusive remarks to Malibu police.
The 50-year-old swears he's now rehabilitated and no longer has anti-Jewish sentiments or visions of "sugar tits" dancing in his head.
"I got a skinful and mouthed off which is not coming from a good place, but I'm moving on from that," a pensive Mel Gibson said.
"Everybody goofs, everybody screws up, and I tell ya, if you ask everybody in the world to raise their hand if they never said something vicious, something that they regretted or something stupid, there wouldn't be many people that wouldn't be able to raise their hands."
Michael Richards is raising both as we speak.
To his credit, Gibson views that experience "as a gift to me, because it's made me really sort of scratch my head and focus on a couple of things that I needed to."
Hey, as Donald Trump and Tara Conner showed us earlier this week, 'tis the season to repent, and to forgive. We'll never forget the actions that resulted in this awfully smug mug shot, but if Mel is truly sorry, what can we do but move on (while still mocking him on occasion, of course).
Incidentally, Mel had no comment on Carmel Sloane, the Australian woman who just filed a paternity suit against him and claims he's her dad. Hey, the guy can only touch upon so many touchy subjects in one interview!
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March 21st, 2007 6:41 PM
unFame says, unFame says, "It's becoming blatantly obvious that Hollywood actors' increasing, pervasive behavioral issues are mere symptoms of a ‘hush-hush, vow of silence' festering problem in Hollywood. Per capitaâ€"in the family of artists, the percentage of those acting out is huge, to be compared to an epidemic. Psychologists would agree that this is an indicator of great mental and emotional distress, to include a cry for help. Hollywood Corp's campaign to control the arts would have to depend on that component of mankind which is unsympathetic to those appearing to live a lush
lifestyle. Keep in mind, corp. is responsible for creating and perpetuating the ‘rich icing ‘ upon the ‘fake cake' of celebrity-ism. Don't believe it. In addition, corp's questionable, extremely oppressive and borderline unlawful labor practices, sweat-shop type working conditions, and yes,
skewed compensation (relative to how enormously non-affordable it is to be a famous actor), are kept under tight wraps as well. More and more
Hollywood actors are showing outward signs of this. The (cleverly difficult to prove) corp. ‘celeb biz' sponsored gossip columns, which attack ones character via skewed truths and innuendo, is a diseased bat."