Call Me Stormy

Dark Hollyweird

In this archived video, actor Mel Gibson describes the weirdness of Hollywood and its obvious obsession with the dark world. “You’ll resent it for a while, but you’ve got to let it go, otherwise you’ll eat yourself alive.,” Gibson says. “And I think it takes that kind of cockroach resilience to survive in this kind of town.”

Gibson describes his arrival in Hollywood as a motivated, young actor and how he immediately developed weird, paranoid suspicions about what was going on, stuff he couldn’t understand.

But perhaps his most vivid memory came across the country from Hollyweird in a cold and scary encounter with iconic actor Christopher Walken on the rooftop of the Peninsula New York hotel and its glaring neon sign of the Top of the 666 restaurant (now a private club). He was so shaken by the encounter and the pulsating 666 sign, that he later described Walken as the Antichrist. Here’s the interview, courtesy of Bluewater.