Mel Gibson
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441 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 3 Mar
Mel Gibson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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and Keith Richards is standing there in his underpants with a spliff and I'm like I tried to explain that I thought it was my room but it wasn't and you know it was ridiculous I'm 26 years old and he just looks at me like He shuts the door in my face. I thought, well, that was my meeting with Keith Richards. He slammed the door in my face. I was like, it's fantastic.
Anyway, but what were we talking about? Caviezel playing Christ. He did something I think that nobody else did. And I think he pulled it off because I totally believed it. I believed it too. And it was like, what did he do? He emptied himself out. Yeah. Yeah. And he invited something else in. And he left it. He just, he didn't try anything.
He just, he emptied himself out and he meditated and he let Christ in.
And then, you know, he got sidetracked by a few guys. I mean, there's some people out there who are like, They get in your ear and it's like Cassius, you know, talking.
And they get you to make a speech somewhere. And, you know, it's like, you know, throwing eggs at you.
And you wonder, you know, should I even be saying this? And so he stepped on a bunch of landmines. But, yeah, it did have a profound effect on him. But I think he was already mostly there anyway. And I noticed that because when I was trying to cast it, I thought, who could play this? And I saw the opening shot from Terry Malick's film, which is The Thin Red Line.
And it was just a big close-up of Gwiesel. And there was something otherworldly and childlike going on there in the close-up. And I thought, who's that guy? He's amazing. Of course, he couldn't keep the blue eyes. He had to trade them out. So I changed the color of his eyes to brown and all that stuff so it looked like he came from the region.
But amazing. He already had a quality, an ethereal kind of otherworldliness, space cadet quality. Yeah. And he's still kind of like that. He's still like, wow. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. He got in real tight with it, and I think he had some experiences while he was doing it. He suffered a little, you know. Didn't he get struck by lightning? Well, there's two times there was these lightning strikes happening on the set, you know. And there was this guy with him. He was a young fella, one of the assistants on the film. His name was...
Jan, and old Jan was like, he's like six foot two, Italian, northern Italian guy, you know. If he tripped in the street, women would slide under him, you know. It was that kind of stuff. The guy was like a babe magnet, right? And I think he was taking full advantage of the gifts he had. But... He got hit by lightning the first time getting people.
We were out on the hill, and there was a lightning storm, like with the crosses and stuff. Oh, Jesus. And this guy called Chieppo, he was a grip, and he never spoke a word to me the whole time. He was just a quiet kind of guy. And I figured, oh, he doesn't know English, so, you know.
But he came up to me, and in perfect English, he said, you know, I think you should get all the people off the hill. We could be struck by lightning. And I thought, oh, that's a good idea. Let's get off the hill. So we're moving off the hill. Everybody's getting off. And this kid gets hit through the umbrella, this Jan guy. He gets zapped by lightning, right? But he's 22.
And he goes to the disco all night and dances. You know, he's doing the whole, you know, 22 experience. And he comes back the next day. He's like, yeah, it was great. And then he was with Jim the second time it happened. But this time, I found him in a Fiat Bambino with his knees up around his ears, like waiting for the third strike. He was like, this just doesn't happen twice in the third strike.
And he says, I have to change my life. So it was pretty funny.
It did, yeah.
Yeah, verite kind of.
And it was a very strange experience, that one. Because I put the money in and I thought, well, maybe I'll break even. And it was, then I got these messages back. All the majors wouldn't distribute it. So I was like, nobody will distribute it. Okay, I guess I've lost, you know, the money, but it was worth the experience. And so one guy was left in the room at the end when the dust settled.
It was some guy. He said, I'll distribute. And he had a little company called New Market, and they distributed like one or two films before. And I think it was a Charlize Theron movie called A Monster about that horrible serial killer. Oh, yeah, yeah. And... He said, I'll do it. And, you know, it was just really basics. I went and I met the exhibitors.
And, you know, and this guy was like the distributor. This little company was just him and a toothless dog and a fax and an assistant. And it was like, okay, what's all the smoke and mirrors about this between the distribution and exhibition? I made handshake deals with all the exhibitors. Yeah, we'll show this. Okay. And then we put it out there.
And it went out, nobody expected it to do much, but it did phenomenally well. And there was this kind of thing in town, in the town, they said, did anyone just see that? Did anyone just see what that guy did?
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