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

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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 gonna get AIDS?’ And then something came up about Jews, and he said, ‘You’re not an oven dodger, are you?’” Director Mel Gibson arrives for the premiere of “Hacksaw Ridge”.