"Cancel Mel Gibson" - Actor Joshua Malina pens op-ed to Hollywood

[irajaxon]

"I’m a character actor. I tend to take the jobs that come my way. But-and this hurts to write-you couldn’t pay me enough to work with Mel Gibson." @JoshMalina on Hollywood, cancel culture, and Gibson's raging anti-Semitism.https://t.co/o4JzZDfSLm
- The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) December 6, 2021
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Comments

[progression]

I don’t get it. Even if the people helping him out are violent, racist, etc themselves… why HIM?

It’s not like he’s a good actor or likable. He’s just a has-been who SHOULD fuck off somewhere to be never heard of again.

[angriest_girl]

White men find him likeable.

[halevy]

I wanna say men in general because my dad is an Indian man who STILL watches Mel Gibson movies and enjoys him as an actor because he can ~separate the artist from the person~ fucking eyeroll

[angriest_girl]

Ugh, that must be frustrating for you. Does your dad think that he hates Jews, Black people and Latinos but wouldn’t hate Indians? Cos I’d bet money that he does.

[halevy]

Probably lol.

[progression]

You’re right, but I also don’t see anyone praising him (unlike, for example, Johnny Depp). No one ever brings up Gibson.

[h_wyatt]

And Jodie Foster.