As an on-camera talent, Mel Gibson will never come close to recapturing his status as one of Hollywood’s biggest and most popular stars, a title he grabbed in the 1980s and held tightly for close to 20 years.
Recommended VideosThat’s not to say he’s struggling for work, with the veteran actor arguably busier now than he’s ever been, even if mainstream projects are growing increasingly few and far between. Almost any news involving the two-time Academy Award winner yields some sort of backlash, though, and today is no different.
After three new cast members were added to the ensemble of family-friendly adventure Boys of Summer, Gibson found himself as one of Twitter’s top trending topics, and you’d be hard-pressed to find any positive reactions.
If Jews were running the world, Mel Gibson's career would have suddenly ended in 1996, because Winona Ryder would have sunk his ass to the bottom of the Pacific.
— Chris @wischofsky.bsky.social (@wischofsky) January 19, 2022
Mel Gibson should be in prison. He should NEVER be forced on anyone again. We all work with predators every day and go on as if it’s not happening when it’s happening to everyone except the predators. I’m so sick of this shit and the same shitty people over and over. Say NO ffs
— John Wick’s Pound Puppy (@NerdyInNOLA) January 19, 2022
Movie also includes Mel Gibson so tell me more about Cancel Culture
— travis🗽🩸🦷 (@tgain83) January 19, 2022
Hollywood!
— Meerkats R In League With Satan (@MeerkatsRMammal) January 19, 2022
STOP
CASTING
MEL
GIBSON!!!!
Mel Gibson is still getting work🤬
— Bob W Garner-just bob-Spaceman Spiff (@athikers_bob) January 19, 2022
It amuses me to watch the Mel Gibson hate, because there are so many people in Hollywood who areso much worse than he is.
Alec Baldwin comes to mind. Mel Gibson's never killed nyone.
— The Turquoise Temptress (@heartsabustin) January 19, 2022
The bad news for Gibson’s detractors is that he’s going to be almost everywhere you look for the foreseeable future. On top of Boys of Summer, he’s got action-comedy Last Looks coming next month, while upcoming projects include John Wick prequel series The Continental, Mark Wahlberg’s biopic Stu, as well as Agent Game, Panama, On the Line, and Hot Seat, without even mentioning that he recently entered talks to direct long-awaited buddy cop sequel Lethal Weapon 5 for HBO Max.
