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

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2121292799396184367
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- Source language: English
- Duration: 2:10
- Published: 2026-11-14
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/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.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=8) And it, and it, it... I didn't end up the...

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=9) I ended up the worse for wear. And I, I drove a buddy of mine to an audition for this film.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=15) And they saw me in the office, and they said, "Whoa, you're a freak.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=17) 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."

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=24) So I came back in three weeks, and they said, "Yes?"

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=26) And I said, "I'm here." And they said, "Well, who are you?"

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=28) And I said, "I'm that guy on the board."

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=30) And they said, "Oh, interesting. Go in and talk to the man."

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=33) I went in and told him a joke, and he said, "You got the part."

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=35) Like that. It was really- What? It was weird.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=37) You probably spoke more in that audition than you do in the entire movie.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=41) Probably. Yeah. Uh, uh, do you... What do you think of the new Mad Max, uh, movie? What'd you think of the soundtrack?

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=47) 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.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=53) Yeah, great. Great edit. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. In your films. Yeah.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=55) I mean, your films are pretty good too. I'm not saying it's better than your film.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=58) I'm just saying that this film, they took what the trailer is and just made it two hours long.

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=64) Now, you've got another film coming up, um, I hear.

[1:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=67) Yeah. But it probably hasn't started yet, called The Resurrection.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=69) It's a sequel to The Passion of the Christ. Is that true?

[1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=73) It's probably about three years off, 'cause it's a big subject.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=76) Yeah, yeah. I've read the book. Yeah.

[1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=79) I know how it ends. I know how it ends. You know how it begins. Yeah.

[1:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=82) Well, um, uh, how do you tell the story of the resurrection?

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=86) 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...

[1:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=93) Every Good Friday, we act out the passion.

[1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=95) You know the story. Yes. You know the parts, you know.

[1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=98) You're waiting for, you know, you know, various people to come on.

[1:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=101) But how do you tell the story of the resurrection?

[1:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=104) It's, it's a single event and then a revelation to the people in the upper room.

[1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=107) Well, it's a, it's, it's more than a single event.

[1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=109) 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.

[1:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=117) Uh-huh. And it's not just about the event.

[1:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=119) It's not some kind of chronological telling of just that event. Mm-hmm.

[2:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=123) That could be boring, and you think, "Well, we read that."

[2:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=125) Mm-hmm. I don't know if it would be boring.

[2:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/yF6oNgBsfCoD/en/mel-gibson-on-his-mad-max-audition-and-the-passion-of-the-christ-sequel?t=127) I mean- No, it wouldn't be ... God becomes man and-