Talking Hollywood | Mel Gibson

Mike Figgis interviewed famous actor, director and producer Mel Gibson about industry practices and Hollywood’s darkest sides in 1998.

Original archived release can be found here: https://archive.org/details/hollywood-conversations-episode-8-mel-gibson-1999

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00:00 - Early Life
01:13 - What's Your Method?
01:56 - Dealing with Actors
03:07 - Reading is Useless
03:55 - First Time Reading for a Part
05:00 - Finding Out Who to Work With
05:32 - Christopher Walken is Terrifying
06:05 - When Mel Met Chris Walken
07:46 - No Decent Parts for Women
09:34 - Lack of Interesting Female Roles
10:16 - Women on Film
11:04 - Is Hollywood based on Money?
11:31 - Producing Films
12:27 - School Fees
12:51 - Making Films based on Money
13:26 - Best Thing about Hollywood?
14:44 - The Social Contract
16:59 - Hollywood Will Get to You
18:14 - Some Nightmares were Real
19:35 - Navigating Upstream
20:19 - It Rips Your Life to Pieces
20:45 - Who isn't an Outsider?