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most complicated, infuriating, talented star hollywood has ever produced. >> reporter: from "mad max" -- >> don't get mad at me. >> reporter: -- to "maverick," "lethal weapon" to "braveheart" he was "what women want" and what men want to be. >> you're like a genius, you know that. >> can i tell you, buddy, i'm blessed. >> reporter: but the audience's love affair with mel gibson would take a turn for the worse on this highway. caught driving drunk, he mouthed off to police. now upstaged by his profanity-laced telephone rant. >> you like a [ bleep ] on heat and if you get raped by a pa...

superstar. >> mel gibson! >> he got out of the gate fast. i mean, you have a good looking guy who could act. >> an actor and academy award winning director and producer whose films have taken in billions at the box office. >> i feel like a hundred bucks. >> mel gibson is probably the most complicated, infuriating, talented star hollywood has ever produced. >> reporter: from "mad max" -- >> don't get mad aat me. >> reporter: to "maverick," "lethal weapon" to "braveheart" he was "what women want" and what men want to be. >> you're like a genius, you know that. >> can i tell you, bud y ...

winning director and producer whose films have taken in billions at the box office. >> i feel like a hundred bucks. >> mel gibson is probably the most complicated, fascinating, infewerating, talented star hollywood has ever produced. >> reporter: from "mad max" -- >> don't get mad at me. >> reporter: "to maverick." >> do you really want to jump? >> reporter: "lethal weapon" to "braveheart" he was "what women want" and what men want to be. >> you're like a genius, you know that. >> can i tell you, buddy, i'm blessed. >> reporter: but the audience's love affair with mel gibson would ta...

Art where an addiction to acting was born. >> yeah, there was a moment where it clicked. it wasn't on stage. it was during the middle of an exercise. it was like being drunk or high. >> reporter: by the page of 20 gibson signed on to play the role of a surfer in his first flick "summer city". >> i might sound stupid but more a way of life, don't you think? >> reporter: on screen his acting ability easily surpassed his surfing skills. >> hopeless. >> reporter: phil avalon wrote and produced the movie. >> uncoordinated. we had a double for him but because he's a good actor, when it came to him b...

Him to attend australia's national institute of dramatic art where an addiction to acting was born. >> yeah, there was a moment where it clicked. it wasn't on stage. it was during the middle of an exercise. it was like being drunk or high. >> reporter: by the age of 20, gibson signed on to play the role of a surfer in his first flick "summer city". >> i might sound stupid but more a way of life, don't you think? >> reporter: on screen mel's acting ability easily surpassed his surfing skills. >> hopeless, absolutely hopeless. >> reporter: phil avalon wrote and produced the movie. >> uncoordinat...