Mel Gibson paid Robert Downey Jr.'s insurance bond when no insurer would cover him. Eight years later, with Gibson's own career in ruins, Downey asked Hollywood to forgive him.
In 2003, Downey was coming off years of drug arrests, and no insurance company would cover him on a film set. Gibson, a producer on The Singing Detective, covered the insurance bond himself so Downey could play the lead.
Downey has said Gibson also told him not to give up hope and urged him to find his faith.
The only thing Gibson asked in return was that someday Downey help the next guy.
In 2006, Gibson was arrested in Malibu, and his own career collapsed.
In October 2011, Downey received the American Cinematheque Award and asked Gibson to present it. In the video below, Downey tells the room why he chose him. About that old favor, he says Gibson "didn't imagine the next guy would be him."
Then he urged Hollywood to forgive his friend.
Gibson later told Esquire it was "a bold and generous and kind gesture."
Did Downey owe Gibson that speech, or was it a risk nobody else in Hollywood was willing to take?
Muslim desecrates a Shinto Shrine= NO PRISON
Muslim desecrates Buddhist Temple= NO PRISON
Japanese burn down illegal mosque= PRISON
Japan's Two Tier System in full display
It genuinely feels as though Islamists around the world can slaughter, rape, behead, and torture innocent people and the media, UN, and so-called humanitarian organizations just look away.
“We will use your miserable freedoms against you"
Gad Saad
He said it perfectly, nothing more needs to be said.
@GadSaad: Thank you!
-Background: Born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1964, he later moved to Canada.
-Career: He is a professor of marketing and an evolutionary behavioral scientist.
-Podcast: He hosts The Saad Truth.
In LONDON, an African attacks a WHITE man & the Police grab & arrest the WHITE guy.
Then an overweight officer sits on his legs.
Traitors protect foreign invaders.
The Muslim Mayor & The Labor Party must be removed 😡
Muslims should hold no power anywhere in the West.
1 person was killed by a Frenchman who declared he wanted to "get revenge" for looted store owners.
Macron called it a "turning point for France".
130 slaughtered in the 2015 Islamic terror attack, 90 at the Bataclan alone, in which a father of one of those killed says his son's testicles had been cut off and put in his mouth.
Yet this 1 murder by the French guy was the turning point?
🇫🇷 If you were wondering why you are seeing less scenes of violence out of France this weekend, it's because the cities were being protected by nationalists.
They did a better job than police. You won't see this in the legacy media.