14 DAY TRIAL // Gary Oldman is using his screentime on Jimmy Kimmel to promote his latest film, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” to apologize once more for the very offensive things he said in his new interview with Playboy magazine, in which he defended Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin for being bigots, on the premise that everyone who was offended with what they did was a big hypocrite.
He’s already apologized once in an open letter to the Anti-Defamation League, but the League was less than impressed with it, even saying they were still in talks with his manager to see what could be done to make things right again.
Before they do that, Gary is doing it himself, as you can see in the video below.
“I said some things that were poorly considered. And once I had seen it in print, I could see that it was offensive, insensitive, pernicious and ill-informed... From my heart, I am profoundly, profoundly sorry... I should be an example and an inspiration, and I'm an a-hole. And I'm 56, and I should know better,” he tells Kimmel.
He stepped out of his area of expertise by becoming a social and cultural commentator, and he knows now that he shouldn’t have done it because he’s not cut for this stuff. What’s worse, he says, is that all he wanted to talk about was the movie because that’s what he does, he acts in films.
Kimmel even sees fit to remind him that he’s an actor, so he could be lying in this apology and we’d never know, but Oldman handles that like a champ.
