We all know that Mel Gibson is a racist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic homophobe after his drunk driving arrest years back. And we also know he’s a rabid Roman Catholic religious wingnut … at least until he divorced his wife, mother of his many children, so he could play house with his new Baby Mama. But now, we get a little more, and yet still old, dirt on Mel and Hollywood anti-Semitism from one Winona Ryder.
When asked if she’d ever experienced anti-Semitism in Hollywood, Ryder said:
“I have … in interesting ways. 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.”
And then she talked Mel:
“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 [to me], ‘You’re not an oven dodger, are you?’”
Gosh, he’s just delightful, no? Ryder says he tried to apologize later, but Gibson says it never happened. Huh; who to believe, Winona, who has a troubled shoplifting past, or Gibson, who when he was arrested for being a drunken idiot in 2006 said this to police:
“The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world!”
He blamed that on being recorded without his knowledge, which, correct me if I’m wrong, doesn’t mean he never said it, it just means he didn’t know it was being recorded. Gibson also got into a drunken shrieking match with ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva in which he used racist slurs, including the n-word.
Yeah, I think I’m Team Ryder here.
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