News leaked today that Mel Gibson will be making a cameo appearance in "The Hangover 2". Now, why they would make a sequel to this movie and potentially taint the entire franchise is beyond me. But the real issue here figuring out what Mel's motives are for taking this cameo. My guess is that he is doing this cameo on a comedy movie with the hope that this will make people forget/forgive him for his racist and misogynistic rants that were caught on tape.
Mel Gibson has had a very rough year, and it didn't help that a year or so ago, he was also caught saying some anti-Semitic things. When the tapes of conversations between Gibson and his girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva leaked, things got even worse. I think it's safe to say many people ran out of patience with Mel after that. "Misogynist" was synonymous with Mel Gibson for a while.
In an interview on Extra, actress Jodie Foster called Gibson the "most loved man" in Hollywood. Really, Jodie? She might be alone on that one.
So, what do you think? Should we forget about all the bad things Mel Gibson has said/done in the past year? Share your thoughts! :)
-Liz
Dear blogger Liz,
ReplyDeleteI do think we should forgive him. I understand why some people would be deeply offended by his "rants", which btw were uttered while we was drunk, but he did apologize for making them and I believe he was sincere. Who among us has never once said something that wasn't offensive to a certain group of people? I think people often magnify mistakes made by celebrities and wrongly so. He apologized lets move on with the rest of our lives.
You do have a point, but I do think there's only so many free passes we can give someone. Yeah he said those things when he was drunk, but he said some awful things. Although, I don't think he was drunk when he was yelling at his girlfriend, which is even worse....
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