"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
Reacting to news that "Lethal Weapon 5" has been greenlit

Comments

[doriiansz]

Mel Gibson is an antisemitic, racist and violent pos. We've all known this FOR YEARS. Anybody associating with him in any shape or form is a pos too (I'm looking at you, Jodie Foster).

[soul_amazinn]

I’d add homophobe to that list as well. Yeah I don’t understand.

[walterwhiteh2o]

Don't forget Robert Downey Jr.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Not surprising. Mel was pretty much blacklisted for a good while but since it's a been a while I think tptb decided "eh that's enough punishment".

Plus he probably still has good friends in the business who can vouch for him.

That's why I didn't really care for when the Academy removed Roman Polanski from their membership. There's still plenty of actors and filmmakers who'd jump at the chance of working with him if he were able to get back here.

[unmellow_yellow]

Aren't he and Jodie Foster like really good friends? I remember she accepted a lifetime achievement award at an age way too young for something like that, it felt really awkward because she's so....distant? and she was in her feelings in such a public way and for her I had to wonder if she was on too much Xanax or maybe drunk....

https://www.vulture.com/2013/01/jodie-foster-the-most-conflicted-speech-ever.html

[genbu_no_miko24]

Yeah she's always been really good friends with him.

[winter_lace]

Yup. and RDJ

[choukoumei]

Cancel culture is not a thing, this has been proven time and time again when horrible men get away with everything. At the most they will be quiet for a while and wait for everyone to forget so they can make their comeback.

Hollywood doesn’t give a shit as long as it makes money, if they think Lethal Weapon will bring in the nostalgia money then they will work with every racist ass out there. We have to stop expecting anyone with too much money to have morals or empathy anyway.

[unmellow_yellow]

We have to stop expecting anyone with too much money to have morals or empathy anyway.

Poor people have known and been saying this since the dawn of time. Statistically they've always given the least, of both their time and their money. And they always give to some fucking charity, which one of my crim profs said like 40% of which are fronts, and I'm poor AF and never see a cent from any charity. They're just a way for rich people to make money and be on boards lol, so they can feel important.

[hamnoo]

But we have to pretend to expect more from them as long as they're in power because appealing to the myth of their morality is the only way they might actually do small good things.

[thereinventions]

Fronts, you say? That's INTERESTING!!

How can you tell if they're fronts or not? If you tell me records, I'll tell you I'm in Texas, so... 😭

[altheablue]

I read this the other day and I was reminded of his disgusting "oven dodger" comment all over again. Hopefully something will come out of this article, eventthough it's more likely that only Malina's career will suffer:(

[ohwutevernvm]

Come for his throat!

Ain’t this crazy huh. MESS 🚮