Mel Gibson on His Mad Max Audition and The Passion of the Christ Sequel

In a pub fight with a rugby team, and of course, when you're fighting, like, three guys, they beat the hell out of you. So- Honest to God, you weren't- Yeah, I, I got into a fistfight.

And it, and it, it... I didn't end up the...

I ended up the worse for wear. And I, I drove a buddy of mine to an audition for this film.

And they saw me in the office, and they said, "Whoa, you're a freak.

We might need freaks in this film." And so they took Polaroids of me, slapped them on the board, and they said, "Come back in three weeks when you heal up."

So I came back in three weeks, and they said, "Yes?"

And I said, "I'm here." And they said, "Well, who are you?"

And I said, "I'm that guy on the board."

And they said, "Oh, interesting. Go in and talk to the man."

I went in and told him a joke, and he said, "You got the part."

Like that. It was really- What? It was weird.

You probably spoke more in that audition than you do in the entire movie.

Probably. Yeah. Uh, uh, do you... What do you think of the new Mad Max, uh, movie? What'd you think of the soundtrack?

Oh, it was great. It was spec... I sat next to George and Tom Hardy when we watched it in, uh, LA, and it was visually spectacular.

Yeah, great. Great edit. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. In your films. Yeah.

I mean, your films are pretty good too. I'm not saying it's better than your film.

I'm just saying that this film, they took what the trailer is and just made it two hours long.

Now, you've got another film coming up, um, I hear.

Yeah. But it probably hasn't started yet, called The Resurrection.

It's a sequel to The Passion of the Christ. Is that true?

It's probably about three years off, 'cause it's a big subject.

Yeah, yeah. I've read the book. Yeah.

I know how it ends. I know how it ends. You know how it begins. Yeah.

Well, um, uh, how do you tell the story of the resurrection?

Because it's, it's... There's not as much, and I, I don't mean this to say this in a flippant way- Yes ... but there isn't action. I mean, we...

Every Good Friday, we act out the passion.

You know the story. Yes. You know the parts, you know.

You're waiting for, you know, you know, various people to come on.

But how do you tell the story of the resurrection?

It's, it's a single event and then a revelation to the people in the upper room.

Well, it's a, it's, it's more than a single event.

It's an amazing event. And to underpin that with the things that... around it is really the story, to sort of enlighten what that means.

Uh-huh. And it's not just about the event.

It's not some kind of chronological telling of just that event. Mm-hmm.

That could be boring, and you think, "Well, we read that."

Mm-hmm. I don't know if it would be boring.

I mean- No, it wouldn't be ... God becomes man and-