'OVEN DODGER': Winona Ryder recounts ugly Mel Gibson encounter

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After a a string of anti-Semitic and racist outbursts made him unemployable for close to a decade, Oscar winner Mel Gibson crawled back to relevance behind the camera in 2016 with Hacksaw Ridge.It seemed time had allowed people to, if not forgive, then forget his troubled past.But in a recent interview with The Sunday Times, actress Winona Ryder recounted her experiences with anti-Semitism within the movie industry and revealed that the Braveheart star once asked her if she was an “oven dodger.”Ryder, who is Jewish, alleges that she was at a party when Gibson made the comment.“We were at a crowded party with one of my good friends, and Mel Gibson was smoking a cigar, and we’re all talking and he said to my friend, who’s gay, ‘Oh wait, am I