Back in December, Elisabeth relayed some big Norse news: Mel Gibson and Leonardo DiCaprio were teaming up for an epic Viking drama. There weren’t many details released at the time, but now Gibson has talked to the Los Angeles Times (Hero Complex) about the feature and revealed one rather surprising bit of information: This Viking drama could very well be his last Hollywood film.

Gibson said: “It was the first movie I ever thought about making. I saw it in my mind back when I was teenager. Seriously, it’s the first movie I wanted to make. And I think it will be the last film I direct. It’s the thing I have been going toward, in a way, since I was young, and I think when it’s done I may be finished.” The comment still leaves the door open for acting, but as the Times writes: “the 54-year-old sounded as if his Viking epic might be a fitting farewell to his Hollywood life.” Then again, the paper notes that people close to Gibson think he’ll never be able to give up his passion for cinema, so this will come down to what reigns supreme — ties to Hollywood or the desire for a neat, wrapped-up end to his showbiz career.

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Mel Gibson’s personal problems have generated more bad headlines than good in recent years. But after a self-imposed exile, he’s back with a new film and new-found happiness. The ‘ordeal’ is over, he tells John Hiscock.

His face twitching, Mel Gibson is having difficulty sitting still as he perches on his chair in the swish Santa Monica hotel suite where we meet. In the past, the actor has sometimes appeared somewhat tense and ill-at-ease during interviews, but this time he seems particularly on edge.

Clearly realising it after a few minutes, he feels the need to explain. “I’m kind of jumpy because I gave up smoking seven days ago. I’m three or four days past the axe-murdering stage, but if I fail to find the correct word now and then, please forgive me.” Then, joking, he adds, “Where was I? I can’t remember.”

Apart from nicotine deprivation, he has other reasons to be nervous as he emerges from self-imposed exile to embark on his first round of interviews in four years, knowing that there will be a lot of uncomfortable questions to answer.

It has been an eventful and mainly unpleasant few years for the 54-year-old actor, who for a while could not stay out of the news. He was arrested for drink driving, accused of racism and anti-Semitism, excoriated for the graphic violence in films such as The Passion Of The Christ and Apocalypto and, more recently, criticised for fathering a child with a woman 14 years his junior. The affair began while Gibson was still married to his wife of 28 years.

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No one wants Mel Gibson to get married more than the National Enquirer.

Probably even more than Gibson himself.

Since last fall, the supermarket tabloid has published a series of stories about Gibson’s supposed wedding plans to Oksana Grigorieva.

The magazine claimed he was set to tie the knot last December. And for an equal amount of time Gossip Cop rep reported there was NO such wedding in the works.

Eventually, the Enquirer began to hedge by saying Gibson was getting cold feet, followed up by a subsequent story titled, “Mel Calls Off Wedding.”

Huh? Calling off a wedding that was never even going to happen in the first place?

Anyway, it’s a new year, and the Enquirer is trying again to peddle this old – and wrong – tale.

In a piece this week about Gibson’s personally financed Holy Family Chapel in Agoura Hills, California, the Enquirer once more spews that Gibson and Grigorieva “will tie the knot there later this year.”

Well, the mag bought itself another nine and a half months – till the end of this year – but even that may not cover the Enquirer.

Gibson’s rep tells Gossip Cop (again) that talk of marriage is “rubbish,” and that there is “no wedding planned.”

Guess we can expect another “Gibson Cold Feet” piece sometime soon.

Source: Gossip Cop

The Hollywood Reporter had a short interview with Mel. They discuss his upcoming project in Veracruz, the Oscars, and even Avatar! Enjoy.

Mel Gibson and his soon to be ex-wife are selling their family mansion as their divorce proceedings hit the home stretch.

The couple, who filed for divorce 11 months ago, want $A16 million for their sprawling estate, which is hidden inside an exclusive gated community in sun-drenched Malibu.

The Spanish hacienda-style retreat, Lavender Hill Farm, was listed on Saturday as the couple finalise their bitter split.

Gibson, 55, and his Australian wife Robyn Moore, 54, bought the six-bedroom spread in 1993.

They raised their seven children there as Gibson carved out the glittering Hollywood career that has earned him about $1 billion.

The home, in the star-studded Serra Retreat, has six bedrooms, six bathrooms, a gym, three fireplaces, a library, three guest houses and private staff quarters.

There is a pool, spa, tennis court, giant garden chess board, fruit orchards and an open air cabana.

Over the years, their neighbours inside the super rich enclave have included director James Cameron, pop star Britney Spears and Australia’s own Olivia Newton-John.

The Telegraph Online understands the home was listed on Saturday and, so far, no prospective buyers have viewed it.

Robyn Moore filed for a divorce from her movie star husband last April, nearly three years after Gibson claims they first separated.

He has since had a daughter with his new lover, Russian pianist Oksana Grigorieva, 40.

Californian legal experts yesterday said the listing could mean Gibson and Robyn have reached a settlement which orders the sale of the home.

It could also mean that Robyn, who has been the sole occupant since the split, has simply decided to move out and build a new life elsewhere.

She is rumoured to have a close companion in northern California.

In another sign the divorce could be nearing an end, Gibson’s health care plan has been formally tied to the proceedings, a routine process that ensures every last cent is brought before the court for judgment.

Gibson and Robyn had no prenuptial agreement, which means his entire fortune will probably be divided down the middle.

The LA Superior Court judge handling the Gibson divorce has ordered their lawyers to update him on the status of the negotiations in May.The agents selling the family home, Coldwell Banker Real Estate, declined to comment.

Gibson has a taste for expansive country-style living. His 15-bedroom Tudor-style mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut, is on the market for $A32.6 million.

It was first listed in 2007, before the economic downturn.

The agent selling that home did not return calls last night.

Source: Herald Sun

Director/actor Mel Gibson and his lady love, Russian singer Oksana Grigorieva, walked the red carpet Thursday night at a pre-Oscar bash, and exclusively told Radar Online that he’s skipping Sunday’s Academy Awards and watching it at home – NAKED!

We caught up with Mel, who was in an unusually playful mood, at The Hollywood Reporter’s first Nominee’s Night at Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s home in Los Angeles.

While everyone else is wondering what to wear, Mel told us he had other plans for Oscar night, “I’m not wearing anything,” he quipped.

We were surprised to learn that Mel, a two-time Oscar winner, is not attending Sunday’s Academy Awards. “I plan on laying in front of my TV set probably wearing my birthday suit.”

Oksana laughed when Radar Online asked if that’s how they always watch TV. “No, that’s not true,” she said.

The couple left the party early, presumably to tend to their new baby girl, four-month-old Lucia Anna. “We have to pay the ransom,” Mel joked.

As for his upcoming projects, the Braveheart star said, “I’ve got a couple of treats in store…. wait and see.”

To watch the video, click here.

Source: Radar Online

Mel and Oksana attended the dinner last night in Los Angeles along with the Governor of Veracruz. Enjoy!

Mel Gibson struggled to quit smoking because he started when he was in the womb.

The Mad Max star is still battling his addiction to nicotine after quitting last year and he’s convinced it would have been much easier for him to quit if his mother hadn’t been a smoker when she was pregnant with him.

The actor tells WENN, “It is a hellish habit to break. Your neurons are involved. My mother smoked when I was in her womb. I first had one when I was nine years old and I thought, ‘Yes, I missed this!’ I knew I missed it.

“And 45 years later, after every single artistic decision; every decision I’d ever made was done with a cigarette. To not have that is pretty hectic. It’s worse than crawling the walls, which I did for a while. There’s no more fun things left. I just don’t do anything fun anymore; but that’s dying isn’t it? I mean you die in stages. You let things go in pieces. It’s mostly over halfway through.”

But glum Gibson, a new dad, admits quitting smoking is just the start of a new health regime for him: “I try and eat right and exercise a little.”

Source: Contact Music

Mel Gibson finds it ”thrilling” to play characters who are down on their luck because it helps him realise just how great his own life is.

The Hollywood actor – who stars as Thomas Craven, a homicide detective investigating the death of his activist daughter in Edge of Darkness – enjoys taking on unhappy roles, despite how difficult they can be, because it makes him appreciate his own life.

He said: “I’m not good at suffering. I scream my lungs out and hate it. But there’s one advantage to it: you become humble and in the end you will find redemption. I admit it’s a very thrilling process for me… I like to deal with it over and over again.”

The 54-year-old star spent six years working behind the camera before making his comeback with Edge of Darkness, and he decided to take on the role because he has started to realise time is precious.

He told German TV channel Tele 5: “I am what I am. Everyone’s biding their time and one day will be your last and your life will be over. It’s getting worse and worse and then you die. But since I’ve passed the big 50 I’ve chosen my projects more carefully. When you realise that half of your life has gone by you don’t want to do s**t stuff anymore.

“I make clear-cut decisions now and only want to make films that are important to me. Everything else would be a waste of my lifetime. I prefer going fishing to doing a film, that’s no use to me.”

Source: Contact Music

Mel Gibson’s motto in life is to “s**t a lot and cry”.

The ‘Braveheart’ actor spends his days following a strange set of rules which state it is important to go to the toilet often and shed plenty of tears.

Speaking about his life motto, he said: “Don’t get caught! No, seriously. Try to live everyday as if it was your last. You should s**t a lot and cry.”

Over the years Mel has battled alcoholism, been arrested for driving under the influence and is in the process of divorcing his wife of 30-years Robyn – with whom he has seven children.

Last year Mel’s brood was extended further, when his Russian singer girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva gave birth to baby daughter Lucia in October 2009.

Fatherhood is very important to Mel, who admits he has become “softer” with his children as he has got older.

He explained: “I’m the strict kind. Throughout the years you become softer though. My younger children benefit from that. The more experienced you become as a father, the more relaxed you are with your children – until you’re just spoiling them!”

The 54-year-old star has also praised his father Hutton Gibson for his own “loving” upbringing.

Mel explained to German website Spielefilmetechnik.de: “My dad was a great person. He was very intelligent, skipped two years in school. The way he raised me was loving and rational. When you got into trouble, he gave you several warnings. If you ignored them you would get disciplined, but you knew you deserved it.”

Source: Contact Music