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Mel Gibson Calls Robert Downey Jr. ‘Bold and Generous’ for Urging Hollywood to Forgive Gibson After 2006 Arrest and Antisemitic Remarks: ‘I Loved Him For That’
Mel Gibson praises Robert Downey Jr. as "bold and generous" for asking Hollywood to forgive him after his 2006 arrest and antisemitic comments.
Downey, who is Jewish, asked Hollywood to join him in “forgiving my friend his trespasses, offering [Gibson] the same clean slate you have given me, and allowing him to continue his great and ongoing contribution to our collective art without shame.” The “Iron Man” star knew a thing or two about second chances in Hollywood considering he was an industry pariah himself at the turn of the century due to a string of legal troubles in the late 1990s. Downey’s casting as “Iron Man” and the global box office success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that launched in its wake rehabilitated his image in Hollywood.
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