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The Insane Prank Mel Gibson Pulled on the Director of ‘What Women Want’

The director reportedly stabbed him multiple times with a pencil in response to the gag.

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Mel Gibson has a reputation for being a lot of things, but practical joker is one that he would at least happily admit to. On more than one occasion, Gibson reportedly gifted women he worked with freeze-dried rats (including Julia Roberts), which apparently has something to do with the fact that he gets a kick out of making girls scream.

“He has this thing on a set where he has to impress someone, as if he was an unattractive 12-year-old-boy,” Gibson’s Maverick co-star Jodie Foster told Vanity Fair in 1997. “He goes out of his way to find some weird thing to impress somebody he doesn’t even know.”

But a dead rat is nothing compared to the prank he........

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