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Andrew Garfield Says Hacksaw Ridge Director Mel Gibson ‘Has Done a Lot of Healing,’ ‘Deserves to Make Films’

Andrew Garfield tells PEOPLE about his experience working with Mel Gibson on the 2016 drama 'Hacksaw Ridge.' He says the director 'has done a lot of healing' since making anti-Semitic statements in 2006, adding that Gibson 'deserves to make films.'

Before making the movie about World War II soldier Desmond Doss, a pacifist who refused to carry a gun while serving in the Army, the Jewish actor said he had “deep, important conversations” with Gibson, who made anti-Semitic statements when he was arrested for a DUI in 2006. I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested on a DUI charge,” the Lethal Weapon star said in a statement. Eight years after Hacksaw Ridge, Garfield is starring in We Live in Time, a tearjerker romance about newly single Tobias who falls for talented chef Almut ( Florence Pugh).

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