Mel Gibson has revealed he wanted to film the entirety of Braveheart in Gaelic. To keep Braveheart as authentic as possible, the director and actor thought it was a good idea to learn some key phrases before shooting the Oscar-winning film.
However, he ultimately decided against it after thinking about how it would appeal to a global audience. Speaking to The Sun, Mel explained: ‘It’s always been a thing of mine — an interest in languages which aren’t dead but hardly spoken anymore. ‘I’ve made two films like that.
I found it to be something that would make it so real for people like with The Passion Of The Christ in Aramaic and Apocalypto in Mayan. ‘There’s something utterly believable about people and their culture when it’s in another
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