Sirius Black has defended another outcast – Mel Gibson.
Gary Oldman, who plays fugitive Black in Harry Potter, has sympathised with the disgraced actor in a rant about political correctness in Tinseltown.
In an interview with Playboy (then picked up by The Daily Mail), Oldman was promoting Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, but ended up letting loose about his feellings on political correctness.
Gibson’s career has taken a nosedive since he was caught on video hurling racist and anti-Semitic abuse at a US police officer in 2006.
During the rant Gibson said, “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world”.
Oldman, 56, has defended Gibson, saying people should “get over it” and people are hypocrites.
“I don’t know about Mel. He got drunk and said a few things, but we’ve all said those things.
“We’re all f***ing hypocrites. That’s what I think about it,” he said.
“Mel Gibson is in a town that’s run by Jews, and he said the wrong thing because he’s actually bitten the hand that I guess has fed him – and doesn’t need to feed him anymore because he’s got enough dough,” he says.
“He’s like an outcast, a leper, you know
“But some Jewish guy in his office somewhere hasn’t turned and said, ‘That f***ing kraut’ or ‘F*** those Germans’, whatever it is We all hide and try to be so politically correct. That’s what gets me.”
Oldman slammed the double standards people have judging others.
He also spoke up for Alec Baldwin who’s TV talk show on MSNBC was cancelled last year after the actor’s foul-mouthed, homophobic rant at a New York Post photographer.
The full interview will be in Playboy’s July/August double issue.
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– AAP
