Gary Oldman is wrong, says Mel Gibson's arresting officer

Oldman told Playboy magazine that Gibson was the victim of political correctness and was guilty of saying the wrong thing “in a town run by Jews”.



"He got drunk and said a few things. We've all said those things," Oldman claimed. "The policeman who arrested him has never used ‘n-----‘ or ‘f------ Jew’?"



The officer in question, LA County Sheriff’s Deputy James Mee, was outraged by Oldman’s comments.





“I’m Jewish,” he told TMZ. “Why would I say that to discredit my own religious make-up?



“The n-word is a scary word. I would never even dream of using it. It sickens me that anyone would use that word.



“Jews have been persecuted and put down over the years. Why would I, as a Jew, do that to other races?”



He said of Oldman: “I feel sorry for people that need to say things about other people in order to justify themselves.”



Oldman, 56, made the remarks during a nine-hour interview with Playboy.



He raised the subject of Mel Gibson, saying the public should learn to spot a joke. “Get over it,” Oldman said.



“We’re all f------ hypocrites. That’s what I think about it.



“Mel Gibson is in a town that’s run by Jews and he said the wrong thing because he’s actually bitten the hand that I guess has fed him – and doesn’t need to feed him any more because he’s got enough dough.



“He’s like an outcast, a leper, you know? But some Jewish guy in his office somewhere hasn’t turned and said, ‘That f------ Kraut’ or ‘f--- those Germans’ or whatever it is? We all hide and try to be politically correct.”



Political correctness extends to awards season, he added. “At the Oscars, if you didn’t vote for 12 Years A Slave you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say.



“I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn’t share, but it’s not like I’m a fascist or a racist. There’s nothing like that in my history.”



Oldman is widely regarded as one of the best actors never to have won an Oscar, and he acknowledged that his reluctance to play the celebrity game had hindered his chances.



On the subject of the Golden Globes, which are chosen by the 90-strong Hollywood Foreign Press Association, he was scathing.



“I know it certainly doesn’t mean anything to win a Golden Globe, that’s for sure. It’s a meaningless event,” he said, describing the HFPA as "90 nobodies" and calling for a boycott of the event.



Oldman was dismissive of most of his back catalogue, including The Dark Knight and Harry Potter (“It was work”) and The Fifth Element (“I can’t bear it”).



He also criticised Miley Cyrus as “some idiot”, reality television as “the museum of social decay” and said ‘helicopter parenting’ had produced a generation of kids who “believe they are the centre of the f------ universe”.



At one point he mused: “This interview has gone very badly… it’s going to make me sound like a bigot. I’m defending all the wrong people.”



Oldman’s manager, Douglas Urbanski, said in a statement that Oldman was not defending Gibson’s anti-Semitism.



“It is the hypocrisy of political correctness that Gary is addressing, nothing else,” Urbanski said.



“In this interview Gary is doing what many intelligent people do: he is illustrating the absurd by being absurd.”



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