Winona Ryder Calls Out Hollywood Anti-Semitism, Repeats Mel Gibson's 'Oven Dodger' Comments

Winona Ryder shared her experience with anti-Semitism in Hollywood, repeating a 1995 encounter with Mel Gibson in which she said the actor referred to her as a Jewish “oven dodger.” “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,'” Ryder told the London-b...