get out of the way! i m going to do it. we can make it look like suicide. we can make it look like suicide. video camera. i don t care. get out of here. not that way, this way. over there, go. larry: my guest is mel gibson. he stars in warner brother s conspiracy theory. this could be one of the big ones. what was your the turning point in the mel gibson career of all the films? what was it that we all said now we know you? i m not sure. but i think i think perhaps maybe when i started making american kind of action films like the lethal weapon thing. this about 11, 12 years ago. larry: before that, you made what, mad max? oh, i did those early on. larry: so you were kind of a cult person then, right? yeah, big in asia. larry: that s what i mean. you were known, but not box office america. yeah, no, not necessarily. larry: how did lethal weapon come about?
larry: so you were kind of a cult person then, right? yeah, big in asia. larry: that s what i mean. you were known, but not box office america. yeah, no, not necessarily. larry: how did lethal weapon come about? well, it was donner sitting around who will we get to play this guy? and they send me the script. i don t know what went on before that. but i certainly got the pages and i liked it. and i had taken about a year off and decided to put on a hair shirt and wrap barbed wire around my chest and sort of go out and manage the cattle. larry: you are a rancher. a gentleman rancher. absolutely. and i thought well, i ve suffered for a year. i might as well go back and see if i can do this right this time. so i went back to came back to los angeles and i had a really good experience. it was terrific. and i have worked with donner five times now. going into six soon. larry: so that helped a lot, having that director. you and glover had the rapport and chemistry you