Mel Gibson on Making Flight Risk, Entertaining First and the Toll of Combat Sports
Mel Gibson joins Joe Rogan to talk about directing Flight Risk, why he thinks entertainment comes first, happiness and gratitude, the Los Angeles fires, and what rugby and fighting do to the body. Partial coverage: this note covers the opening portion of the roughly 2h20m conversation, and the opinions are the speakers' own.
Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Actor and director Mel Gibson talks with Joe Rogan during the week of the Los Angeles wildfires about his thriller Flight Risk, the discipline of entertaining an audience, the idea that constant happiness is unrealistic, old illnesses, and the long-term damage from hits to the head. Partial-coverage note: this summary draws on the opening portion of a 2h20m episode. Opinions, including on health and injury, are the speakers' own and not verified here. Nothing here is advice.
Key Takeaways
Gratitude amid disaster
Gibson says he generally feels grateful given what others go through, even as the Palisades fire burned that morning and a friend's old house was lost.