Mel Gibson is filming a scene tonight at a Mamaroneck beverage store for the movie The Beaver directed by Jodie Foster, who also appears in the film.

The movie has been filming around the Sound Shore, including earlier in the day at a home in Harrison a couple of blocks off North Street.

In the film, Gibson portrays a man who takes to wearing a beaver puppet on his hand and treats it as if it’s alive, according to the Internet Movie Database.

In one scene filming tonight, Gibson, in a suit, leaves the beverage store with a box, walks to a car in the parking lot and puts the box in a trunk. The scene is being filmed at the One Stop Beverage Center on Boston Post Road.

Large white trucks and trailers were parked along the Post Road as well as on Carroll Avenue, near the Bellows School.

A couple of dozen onlookers from the neighborhood gathered to watch the action. Gibson, smoking a cigarette, walked past them and said “Hi” on his way to the film set.

Foster, in a green rain slicker, spoke animatedly with crew members as lighting was changed for another angle and small trees were placed across the street as a backdrop.

The film is due out in 2010.

Source: LoHud