he was one of Hollywood’s biggest stars
before becoming the center of enormous
controversy welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be taking a look at the
career of Hollywood actor and director
Mel Gibson Mel Gibson was born on
january 3rd 1956 in Peekskill New York
before his family moved to Sydney
Australia when he was just 12 years old
in his youth he contemplated joining the
priesthood or studying journalism
however he settled on a job at an orange
juice bottling plant fortunately his
sister took it upon herself to enroll
him at the Institute of Dramatic Arts
due to his hidden talent for doing
impersonations and his ability to
reproduce realistic accents so how many
head of cattle have you got upon
completing his training Gibson worked on
several Australian stage plays and media
productions he achieved instant
mainstream and international fame with
the release of 1979 s dystopian action
film Mad Max as a result he was cast as
the lead in the critically acclaimed
World War one film Gallipoli which
earned him a Best Actor Award from the
Australian Film Institute and cemented
his reputation as a serious and
versatile performer in 1984 Gibson
starred opposite Anthony Hopkins in the
bounty during filming the cast engaged
in serious drinking sessions he
subsequently returned to his family with
an alcohol addiction which proved
difficult for him to overcome get your
hand off him now
despite his personal troubles his
Hollywood career was taking off with his
quick adoption of an American accent
which he introduced in the river a drama
in which he co-starred alongside Sissy
Spacek as struggling Tennessee farmers
all I gots with girl in these fields
Gibson simultaneously saw huge success
with his two sequels to Mad Max 1985 s
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome caused his
salary to soar to the million dollar
mark and earn him the title of sexiest
man alive by People magazine despite the
popularity of the role the part that
would forever cement Gibson as an
American Hollywood star was that of the
loose-canon Martin Riggs in 1989 s
Lethal Weapon a role that he would
revisit three more times during his
career yeah you want to see crazy okay
throughout the 90s Gibson remained a
compelling force at the box office with
a string of hits including air America
Bird on a Wire forever young maverick
ransom conspiracy theory and even as the
bad guy in payback however his biggest
accomplishment of the decade was the
result of his directorial debut with
1993’s the man without a face the
project led to Gibson forming his own
production company called icon which he
used to produce star and direct his 1995
epic Braveheart that film earned several
Oscars including that of Best Director
and made Mel Gibson Hollywood’s biggest
star his star power would comfortably
carry him into the new millennium with
all three of his films in 2000 grossing
over 100 million dollars these box
office draws consisted of the American
Revolutionary War epic the Patriot the
offbeat romantic comedy what women want
and as the charming voiceover of rocky
in the stop-motion animated feature
chicken run ironically shortly following
his overwhelming box-office success in M
night Shyamalan signs in which he played
a priest who had lost his faith Mel
Gibson became the subject of intense
controversy with the release of his
deeply personal religious project The
Passion of the Christ
in 2004 the result was a public and
Hollywood uproar over the perception
that the film was anti-semitic it is
possible for people who are not even
Christian to get into the kingdom of
heaven it’s just easier for and I have
to save it because that’s what I believe
remarkably the controversy became a
powerful marketing tool and the film set
a new record for pre-sales
and became the number one film in
America taking in eight hundred and
fifty million dollars Gibson’s follow-up
project again landed him in the
director’s chair for Apocalypto an epic
said at the end of the Mayan
civilization unflinchingly it became a
hit despite coinciding with media
coverage of Gibson’s second arrest for
impaired driving and further
anti-semitic backlash following his
drunken remarks to a police officer
despite his battered public image and
new focus on directing Mel Gibson has
returned to acting in the film
adaptation of the BBC television series
edge of darkness in which he plays the
role of a detective
investigating the death of his own
daughter this marks his first starring
role in eight years and new focus on
rekindling his former Hollywood status
you had better decide whether you’re
hanging on the cross or banging into
nails
before becoming the center of enormous
controversy welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be taking a look at the
career of Hollywood actor and director
Mel Gibson Mel Gibson was born on
january 3rd 1956 in Peekskill New York
before his family moved to Sydney
Australia when he was just 12 years old
in his youth he contemplated joining the
priesthood or studying journalism
however he settled on a job at an orange
juice bottling plant fortunately his
sister took it upon herself to enroll
him at the Institute of Dramatic Arts
due to his hidden talent for doing
impersonations and his ability to
reproduce realistic accents so how many
head of cattle have you got upon
completing his training Gibson worked on
several Australian stage plays and media
productions he achieved instant
mainstream and international fame with
the release of 1979 s dystopian action
film Mad Max as a result he was cast as
the lead in the critically acclaimed
World War one film Gallipoli which
earned him a Best Actor Award from the
Australian Film Institute and cemented
his reputation as a serious and
versatile performer in 1984 Gibson
starred opposite Anthony Hopkins in the
bounty during filming the cast engaged
in serious drinking sessions he
subsequently returned to his family with
an alcohol addiction which proved
difficult for him to overcome get your
hand off him now
despite his personal troubles his
Hollywood career was taking off with his
quick adoption of an American accent
which he introduced in the river a drama
in which he co-starred alongside Sissy
Spacek as struggling Tennessee farmers
all I gots with girl in these fields
Gibson simultaneously saw huge success
with his two sequels to Mad Max 1985 s
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome caused his
salary to soar to the million dollar
mark and earn him the title of sexiest
man alive by People magazine despite the
popularity of the role the part that
would forever cement Gibson as an
American Hollywood star was that of the
loose-canon Martin Riggs in 1989 s
Lethal Weapon a role that he would
revisit three more times during his
career yeah you want to see crazy okay
throughout the 90s Gibson remained a
compelling force at the box office with
a string of hits including air America
Bird on a Wire forever young maverick
ransom conspiracy theory and even as the
bad guy in payback however his biggest
accomplishment of the decade was the
result of his directorial debut with
1993’s the man without a face the
project led to Gibson forming his own
production company called icon which he
used to produce star and direct his 1995
epic Braveheart that film earned several
Oscars including that of Best Director
and made Mel Gibson Hollywood’s biggest
star his star power would comfortably
carry him into the new millennium with
all three of his films in 2000 grossing
over 100 million dollars these box
office draws consisted of the American
Revolutionary War epic the Patriot the
offbeat romantic comedy what women want
and as the charming voiceover of rocky
in the stop-motion animated feature
chicken run ironically shortly following
his overwhelming box-office success in M
night Shyamalan signs in which he played
a priest who had lost his faith Mel
Gibson became the subject of intense
controversy with the release of his
deeply personal religious project The
Passion of the Christ
in 2004 the result was a public and
Hollywood uproar over the perception
that the film was anti-semitic it is
possible for people who are not even
Christian to get into the kingdom of
heaven it’s just easier for and I have
to save it because that’s what I believe
remarkably the controversy became a
powerful marketing tool and the film set
a new record for pre-sales
and became the number one film in
America taking in eight hundred and
fifty million dollars Gibson’s follow-up
project again landed him in the
director’s chair for Apocalypto an epic
said at the end of the Mayan
civilization unflinchingly it became a
hit despite coinciding with media
coverage of Gibson’s second arrest for
impaired driving and further
anti-semitic backlash following his
drunken remarks to a police officer
despite his battered public image and
new focus on directing Mel Gibson has
returned to acting in the film
adaptation of the BBC television series
edge of darkness in which he plays the
role of a detective
investigating the death of his own
daughter this marks his first starring
role in eight years and new focus on
rekindling his former Hollywood status
you had better decide whether you’re
hanging on the cross or banging into
nails
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