(December 14, 2023 at 6:16 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The Coen brothers wrote the part of The Dude in The Big Lebowski specifically for Mel Gibson. Gibson didn't take their pitch seriously and turned down the part down.
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Boru
That role would have been a bit of a stretch for Mel, what with not having a single drunken tirade or anti-semitic slur.