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Star’s bad memories of Mel

“Black Swan” star Winona Ryder remembers Mel Gibson being “anti-Semitic and homophobic” long before his taped racist rants were broadcast across the world. “Fifteen years ago, I was at one of those big Hollywood parties. And he was really drunk,” Ryder tells the January issue of GQ. “I was with my friend, who’s gay. [Gibson] made a really horrible gay joke. And somehow it came up that I was Jewish. He said something about ‘oven dodgers,’ but I didn’t get it. I’d never heard that before. It was just this weird, weird moment. I was like, ‘He’s anti-Semitic and he’s homophobic.’ No one believed me!” A Gibson rep didn’t respond to us for comment. Ryder plays a washed-up ballerina in Darren Aronofsky‘s psycho-thriller, which, she said, reflected a common dynamic among today’s actresses. “I thought it was a cool parallel,” she tells GQ. “Being replaced by the young thing. I know that definitely happens in Hollywood . . . I’m at that age I’ve been warned my whole life about.”