Jason Isaacs confronted Mel Gibson, called him Rabbi after unforgivable antisemitic rant: Hes not my friend

Jason Isaacs, who most recently played the frazzled financier Timothy Ratfliff in “The White Lotus,” has opened up about his complicated feelings towards Mel Gibson. In an interview with Vulture published Monday, Isaacs, 62, who is Jewish, discussed his relationship with Gibson, 69, who infamously went on an antisemetic rant when he was arrested for drunk driving in 2006. “He was very charming personally, and he’s intelligent and self-deprecating,” said Isaacs, who starred in the 2000 movie “The Patriot” with the former “Mad Max” star. “He’s said and done some things that are unconscionable and unforgivable.I was invited by my friend to some charity cricket event for Australians in film.

And he said, ‘If you come, Mel will.’ And I said, ‘I don’t want to see Mel,'” Isaacs recalled.“I hadn’t seen him since that terrible antisemitic outburst when he got stopped by the police,” Isaacs said, referring to Gibson’s 2006 scandal. Isaacs did end up going to the event, and had an exchange with the “Braveheart” star.

“I went, and Mel was there, and he called ‘Jace,’ across the room, very friendly.I went, ‘Rabbi Gibson, how are we?’” Issacs told Vulture. “[Gibson] came up and he said, ‘I was really drunk, man.

I was trying to get him to hit me or shoot me or something.I’m having a terrible time.’  And he proceeded to unload some very personal things.” Isaacs continued, “He’s not my friend, but — maybe to my eternal shame — I forgave him instantly because he was there making himself vulnerable.” But, Isaacs said he doesn’t believe that you can forgive “everything from everyone.” “I’m not saying I forgive Mel.

I’ve seen him once a decade for five minutes,” the “Harry Potter” star clarified.“We text each other once in a blue moon about something or other.” The “OA” star added about Gibson, “I don’t know what to do with the fact that he put a character into ‘Th...