14 DAY TRIAL // It’s been years that Mel Gibson has been blackballed by big Hollywood types: after his DUI arrest that culminated with an anti-Semitic rant in 2006, he’s been experiencing what we might call a fall from grace. The same applies to Alec Baldwin who, just last year, called a paparazzo a homophobic slur just because he wanted to take his picture.
Few are the people who stand up to defend these two stars because, even if their best friends believe their acts could be somehow explained, no one dares to do so in public for fear of the backlash. You can probably count the number of celebrities who did that on the fingers of one hand.
However, you can add Gary Oldman now to that count. The Daily Mail has obtained excerpts for his brand new interview with Playboy and, once more, Oldman shows he is still very frustrated about certain things happening in today’s celebrity culture, and not only.
Political correctness is one of them.
He tells the publication that the only reason Gibson and Baldwin were labeled bigots and then shunned by major players in the industry (be they media outlets or studio people) is that we’re all a bunch of hypocrites who hide behind the PC concept as if it could save lives when, in the privacy of our homes, we’re probably saying the same things these two guys said without shame.
“I just think political correctness is [expletive]. That’s what I think about it. I think it’s like, take a [expletive]ing joke. Get over it. I don’t know about Mel. He got drunk and said a few things, but we’ve all said those things. We’re all [expletive]ing hypocrites. That’s what I think about it,” Oldman says.
Mel got drunk and said some things that made him look as if he was biting the hand that fed him, he continues. Hollywood is run by Jews so of course they didn’t take it kindly when Mel went on that anti-Semitic rant. Political correctness did the rest and almost ruined his career, the actor agues.
As for Baldwin calling a paparazzo the F-word (the one used as synonym for “gay,” not the one ending in “uck”), Oldman believes he was right in doing so because he was being persecuted and he got angry, so he said the most offensive thing he could think of.
While saying these things, Oldman is aware that he could be labeled a bigot too just for standing up for these two disgraced actors. He’s not, he insists.
“But I’m defending all the wrong people. I’m saying Mel’s all right, Alec’s a good guy. So how do I come across? Angry? It’s dishonesty that frustrates me most. I can’t bear double standards. It gets under my skin more than anything,” the actor says.
On the topic of PC and hypocrisy, Oldman says that, at the 2014 Oscars, you had no other choice but to vote for Steve McQueen’s critical hit “12 Years a Slave” because, if you didn’t, you’d instantly be labeled a racist and would have had to suffer the consequences.