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Times Events. Times Store. Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options. By Lorraine Ali Television Critic. Not terribly surprising, except it was for Mel Gibson. Forget standing ovations; many believed he would never work again.

Lorraine Ali. Home Share 3 Search. Email Facebook Twitter. Give Podcast Subscribe. Image by Getty Images. J Goldberg. Send to. Add a message. But steady work since and a new comedy vehicle suggest his time in the wilderness is up.

T he long, complicated saga known as the Never-Ending Rehabilitation of Mel Gibson unspools another chapter. Given the serendipity of long-range movie-release schedules, how was Gibson to know that his latest bid for a soft landing back in the box-office charts, and back in the warm bosom of filmgoers worldwide, would take place during a tsunami of revelations of sexual chicanery and all-round vileness among top Hollywood figures and Washington politicians?

Then again, Gibson may have accidentally done himself a huge favour by getting lost in the shuffle. The Stranger Things actress, 50, opened up about the incident in an interview with The Sunday Times this week. Ryder, who identifies as Jewish, recalled her run-in with the Braveheart star, explaining: "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?

Newsweek has reached out to Gibson's representatives for comment in light of Ryder's claim. However, the prolific Australian actor has faced similar controversies for racist and anti-semitic outbursts before. Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ has been criticized for being anti-semitic , with The Anti-Defamation League ADL releasing a statement ahead of its release at the time that concluded by saying: "The Passion could likely falsify history and fuel the animus of those who hate Jews.

In , Gibson was forced to apologize to a Los Angeles police officer who claimed the actor had shouted abuse at him during an arrest, including a claim that "the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world. He continued, in part: "I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested on a D.

I am a public person, and when I say something, either articulated and thought out, or blurted out in a moment of insanity, my words carry weight in the public arena.