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Nepotism has been running rampant in Hollywood since the dawn of the moving image, but it can also be a double-edged sword if your relative becomes a pariah. Few stars have fallen from grace quite like Mel Gibson<\/a>, and one of the victims of his self-destructive habits was his own brother.<\/p>\n To be honest, it\u2019s surprising that more of the actor and filmmaker\u2019s family haven\u2019t followed him into the movie business, since there are so damned many of them. After all, he\u2019s got ten siblings and nine children, but only two of them showed any interest in trying to emulate Gibson\u2019s initial superstardom.<\/p>\n His son, Milo, is an actor, but his career has largely been restricted to the sort of straight-to-video genre fare that his old man has been calling home<\/a> for the last decade and change. His younger brother, Donal, rode the two-time Academy Award winner\u2019s coattails for a while, but when he tried to branch out on his own, he found that the Gibson name had been tarnished by association.<\/p>\n As well as playing small roles in Braveheart, Maverick, and Conspiracy Theory, all of which starred Mel in the lead role, he even replaced him as the voice of John Smith in the animated sequel, Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World. He hasn\u2019t appeared in a live-action film since 2004\u2019s Paparazzi, which his brother produced and made a cameo appearance in, and Donal has a sneaking suspicion why.<\/p>\n He theorised that his \u201ccareer went into the toilet\u201d as a result of Mel\u2019s highly publicised brushes with the law and the regular allegations that were levelled toward his beliefs. \u201cI was getting regular work before The Passion of the Christ, but I think people thought Mel was an antisemite, so they thought I was, too,\u201d he told The Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI believe I was blacklisted,\u201d Donal theorised. \u201cI believe Mel\u2019s actions meant I couldn\u2019t get work. The Gibson name was toxic. My agent dumped me. The phone stopped ringing. People associated the Gibson name with bigotry, racism, cruelty, hatred, and rage. I\u2019d been working with big studios, such as Warner Bros and Disney. Overnight, it stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n As you might have guessed, the brothers have been estranged for a while, with Donal suggesting that their bond first began to fracture during the period that Mel was a genuine superstar. \u201cFame changed him,\u201d he said. \u201cHe started believing in his own publicity. The Mel I knew disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHollywood ate him up and spat him out,\u201d he continued. \u201cTo me, the fame, the money, it all went to his head and created a monster. I hate what he has become.\u201d On one hand, some folks might accuse Donal of sour grapes, since his sibling\u2019s Hollywood exile<\/a> has had a clear and obvious effect on his career.<\/p>\n On the other hand, he appeared in over a dozen productions that Mel had nothing to do with, so he was clearly capable of getting work without having to lean on his connections. Either way, what can\u2019t be denied is that his acting career completely stalled, and he lays the blame at the feet of one person, and one person only.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ YouTube Still) Sun 11 January 2026 15:45, UK Nepotism has been running rampant in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,45585],"class_list":{"0":"post-401792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-mel-gibson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}