Mel Gibson, whose own mother is Irish, didn’t know the dialect at all.
“It was difficult, but I was up there and immersed among people who all needed subtitles,” he said on the Graham Norton Show. “I’d ask people ‘What did you say?’ and they’d have to repeat it, so eventually it kind of worked its way into my lexicon.”
Mel needed someone who could teach him the dialect, and the perfect man was Sean Connery. Not only was he an actual Scotsman, he had also played roles such as James Bond and the King of England, all with his great and super charming Edinburgh dialect.
“We were at Andy Vajna’s place and he’s Hungarian, so he made Goulash. Now, imagine Sean Connery saying that word,” Gibson explained. “To hear Sean actually utter a word like ‘goulash’ is a lesson in itself. You just pick up the accent from the people you’re talking to and hearing and he helped me perfect my Scottish accent.”
Well, Mel Gibson’s undertaking of the film was a success indeed. Braveheart became a mega-hit both with critics and the audience, winning a total of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Director. It has also been criticized for not being especially accurate in regards to the real history, but none the less, Braveheart was a magnificent film, even garnering comparisons to masterpieces such as Spartacus and Lawrence of Arabia.
Mel Gibson continued to star in and produce several movies. In 2017, he was awarded an Academy Award nomination for Best Achievement in Directing for his movie Hacksaw Ridge, a World War II movie about the Battle of Okinawa.
Not only was it a great movie, but Mel Gibson actually got to work together with his son, Milo Gibson, who had a supporting role in the film.
Milo is one of Mel Gibson’s nine children, and as you might know by now, he’s enjoying a career in the film business. But it wasn’t always like that, since Milo originally wanted to do something completely different to his father.
One thing is for sure. He looks exactly like his father!
One might think that as the son of Mel Gibson, you’d live in all the glamour present in a huge Hollywood mansion. But according to one of his sons, that wasn’t the case.
Milo Gibson was born November 16, 1990, in Australia. At just 3 years old, the family moved to California, where Milo grew up in Malibu. He had a big interest in surfing, but just because he was the son of a major Hollywood star, his life wasn’t all glamour.
Sure, he enjoyed a privileged childhood, but according to Milo himself, his parents made sure that their kids would be like any other child.
“It wasn’t a showbiz childhood,” he says. “Our parents kept us out of that type of world,” Milo Gibson told The Australian. “Because it changes people, I think.”
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“We didn’t grow up in the Hollywood lifestyle clique,” he explained. “I basically did everything other than going into the career of acting; I wanted to do more of a blue-collar job that involved real people.”
Even though they had a normal childhood, he and his siblings got to meet several celebrities. Robert Downy Jr. was one of them, and he turned out to be an excellent video game fighter.
“He let me hit him in the face a couple of times,” Milo recalled.
As a child, Milo Gibson didn’t quite understand that his father was known all over the world. It wasn’t until a few years later that he understood his father was a huge celebrity.
Growing up as a celebrities’ child
But at the same time, he was very cautious about telling people.
“Yeah, all the time,” he said. “I think you learn how to …Read signals? Yeah. I don’t really like to tell people, but a lot of my friends already know and they don’t care. They’re friends with me because they’re friends with me.”
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