Mel Gibson says he “planned a lot of murders” in his head for the movies
Mel Gibson talked about his life and career in a wide-ranging two-hour interview with the podcaster Joe Roganincluding how he creates his film roles.
“Of course I’ve planned a lot of murders in my life — we all have,” Gibson, 69, said on the Thursday, Jan. 9, episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” podcast, while discussing his upcoming project Resurrection of Christ and how it develops storylines and characters. “In your head, you’re planning them out and thinking, ‘Well, it’s not a good idea, but I think I can get away with it.’
According to Gibson, committing an act of murder will be in “your animal brain”.
“I really spent a long time in my animal brain, which is a very scary place,” Gibson said. “(Where) you’re constantly in fight or flight, you’re not even sleeping. It’s really not a nice place to be, and if someone looks at you the wrong way, you want to bite them – and sometimes you say and do things that are socially unacceptable.”
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The actor revealed that he even underwent a “brain scan” to understand his point of view.
“(The neurologist) looked at my brain and said he opens a file … and says, ‘Are you OK?'” Gibson recalled. “He sat down next to me, but very slowly and carefully, and said, ‘No, no. You got it worst case of PTSD I have ever seen.’
Then Gibson “started to get better” because of a doctor’s appointment.
“He had a very wonderful and wonderful remedy for it: eat loads of fish oil, B-complex vitamins and get in a hyperbaric chamber for 40 sessions – but make sure you do at least two or three a week,” he said. . said. “It cleared my head, really. It got me out of that stupid place.”
After working with Dr. Gibson, he found himself less irritable—his traumatic brain injury was the result of past traumas while playing rugby grew – and eventually came to the realization that he didn’t want to carry out any of his apparent murder plans.
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“You know, when I kill somebody, it’s horrible and it’s socially unacceptable,” Gibson said. “Besides, I don’t want to go to jail.”
Gibson is now focused on his acting careerclaiming to Rogan, 57, that he wanted to tell a story about “good and evil.”
“It’s a resurrection story, but it’s not linear because it’s hard to understand,” he explained. “It has to be framed where you’re answering a few other questions as well, and you have to contrast the event itself and everything on its own so that it makes some sense in the bigger picture, which is not easy to do.”
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