JTA — For years following his highly publicized antisemitic outbursts, Mel Gibson couldn’t find much work in Hollywood.

But now he’s back in the filmmaking capital — as Donald Trump’s “special ambassador.”

The president-elect announced Thursday he was appointing the actor-director, along with fellow conservative celebrities Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone, to the newly created role of “Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California.”

In his Truth Social post, Trump provided few details of what such a role would entail but hinted that Gibson and the others would push his ideas on the entertainment industry and that he would lean on them for advice on the subject.

“They will serve as Special Envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK— BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!” Trump wrote days ahead of his inauguration. “These three very talented people will be my eyes and ears, and I will get done what they suggest. It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood!”

Hollywood’s Golden Age featured prominent Jewish talent and studio executives. Gibson, meanwhile, became notorious for antisemitic comments some 20 years ago.

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