Mel Gibson Prison Protest a Misunderstanding?

Was it every a mix-up? Hundreds of people in Veracruz, Mexico protested the filming of Mel Gibson's newborn flick this week, even before production got underway. As Elisabeth Rappe noted earlier this month, one situation in metropolis was every ordered to blank its slammer cells and designate the 1,000 inmates to a newborn situation low construction nearby so Mel could hit the locate to himself. (He's financing and producing the project.) That didn't set likewise substantially with the families of prisoners, who are "the exclusive source of matter and decent clothing" for inmates, Variety reported; agitated inmates would require families to relocate as well. The protests were halted when the situation warden told the families he'd permit them undergo if he got any orders to designate anybody, according to USA Today, roughly equal to 'Don't oppose call us, we'll call you.'

You'd think histrion would undergo better. He filmed Apocalypto in metropolis in 2006, and reportedly donated $1 meg for hurricane relief, again according to USA Today. And his movie, How I Spent My Summer Vacation, which he wrote, centers on in a career criminal incarcerated in a Mexican situation who must rely on the support of a teen pupil to survive. You know, because family is important.

Gibson might poverty to study outlay a lowercase instance with the families on the next visitor's day. That could exclusive add to his understanding of the character he'll be playing, and mayhap shew a honor of empathy for the pledge of families supporting their idolized ones behind bars. Or is that likewise such to ask?