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'Hangover' blues for Mel Gibson
By Adnan Tezer Oct 22, 2010, 20:33 GMT
After reports broke earlier in the week that Mel Gibson would be making a cameo as a tattoo artist in Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures' "The Hangover 2," director Todd Phillips announced late yesterday that the casting has been vetoed.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Phillips said in a statement that "this decision ultimately did not have the full support of my entire cast and crew."
One cast member in particular, Zach Galifianakis, was reportedly upset about the prospect of Gibson appearing in the film.
In a podcast interview with the web site Comedy Death Ray this month, Galifianakis said "I'm in a deep protest right now with a movie I'm working on -- up in arms about something."
This is the first concrete example of how Gibson's poor reputation in Hollywood has cost him.
Recordings of him using racial epithets and threatening violence to his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva were widely distributed on the Web earlier this year. This only added to Gibson's shaky status following his anti-Semitic outbursts in 2006 when he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.
"Hangover 2" will open next summer.
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