Gibson on Spielberg

I don't know if any of you picked up last months 20th Anniversary of Empire Magazine edited by Steven Spielberg. There was a section with pictures of actors in there best loved roles e.g. Jodie Foster on a chair & Sir Anthony Hopkins behind glass. It was a great article. Well there one shot of Mel Gibson (pictured left looking slightly like a combination of George Lucas & Francis Ford Coppola) wearing a normal suit with half of face painted blue. Obviously from Braveheart...well as he was interviewed he talked about his early memories of Spielberg's work, his first being Duel and him being extremely impressed with it. He then talked about Empire of the Sun and his admiration of this amazing film. He added that he never understood how it never received the respect it should have. And he's totally right I watched Empire of the Sun the other night.That film is amazing, friends believe me. As the young Christian Bale played in the defunkt bomber I imagined Spielberg loving that scene, 'cause he loves that era and those planes. Watch Empire of the Sun folks - you will enjoy it and Christian Bale is brilliant in it opposite some big names, John Malkovich (also flippin' brilliant) to name but one. Also quite unexpectatedly a young Ben Stiller makes a couple of brief appearances.

Back to our man Mel....I wonder if Spielberg was annoyed with Gibson for making The Passion of the Christ. Obviously Spielberg is a Jew and Gibson a Catholic. Gibson came under some attack from the Jewish community for making that movie. Does anybody know if Steven and Mel are buddies? I know some people have produced letters allegedly written by Spielberg to Gibson, but quite frankly I don't believe it. I think it would be awesome to see these guys work together.