Show i WIT9 01 Mm —A afeyn awarded a three-ye- it an wtyhIMTnt wr JIMtanli M Vlf wiiifllHi i: ar scholarship WhiV&doing his first improvisation in drama class pretending to be Alexander the Great he discovered that he could act “I was like a foot off the ground for a week after that!” he recalled "It was the first time' that rd ever ex- perienced that kind of high The teacher usually pulled the plug on a student after about half an hour but he let me go for al- Sbi most two hours yAHudno wrfthe mooey to move his fami- - tytoSydneyAmtraiiahi8 mttber’t homeland "My “Women have a great capacity for love T y I m often more than guys da astounded by what my wife is able to understand and takes for granted that I’m just figuringout” Gibson "The Australians called it fc ‘lucky country’” In Sydney Gibson attended a strict Catholic boys school and was thoroughly miserable The other students made fiih of his American accent while the es smoking and generally goofing off Following graduation in 1975 he got menial jobs bagging groceries waxing surfboards and working in an orange juice plant He killed time hanging out with pals drinking beer ‘1 didn't want to go into the military” he remembered ”1 didn’t want to be in institutions anymore I wasn't cut out for the priesthood I thought 0K Til be a journalist If you’re any good you can travel around and go to hot spots looking for adventure I wanted to do that I like die smell of airports I really like traveling “But then my sister Mary decided that I might be good in a drama school Unbeknownst to me she filled out an application sent the five bucks in and arranged for me to go to this place” The place was Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney (me of the worid’s premiere drama schools “I was embarrassed about it” Gibson said “but I drought I’d give it a whirl I got picked— and they didn't pick mahy people” He was because I was like whoa goo-zIt wait wild I thought o! ‘Alex- ander the Great was a genius and I’m not but if I ctm fool other people into believing I am well that’s acting!’” Gibson was quickly recognized as an exceptional talent “I like being outage” he said “When I did it I was wired all the time You couldn’t switch itoff when ' die curtain went down You’d have to drink at least four pints of beer and hit yourself with a mallet to go to sleep at night It was just too much energy” He laughed Tt was coming out ofmy ears!” At 20 Gibson was already the handsome charmer the whole world would --soon recognize onscreen strikingly blue-eyea bit of a boyish scamp and scrapd dkfol give himself airs enjoyed drinking with his mates and dearly loved the girls In 1977 the year he graduated from NIDA Gibson got die title role in Mad Max a Australian action film almost by aoddett A day after he’d been pounded in a bar fight leaving his face a bruised mess Gibson was spotted by a low-budg- et casting agent who explained that they needed “freaks” in die movie and took a Polaroid of him TVo weeks later his face had healed and die director Geoige Miller cast him instead as the star The next year he joined the State Theatre Company of South Australia He lived in a communal house in Adelaide where he met Robyn Moore a tenant also 21 “An of us did our share of house- keeping tokeep the house nming”here- called “I was happy there Robyn worioed as a dental nurse She had a boyfriend” They developed a friendship and over time it grew into love They were married in 1980 after a two-yecourtship “She’s an exceptional woman’’ Gib: ar son said “It would be vrey very difficult to ever find anyone like her anywhere ever again That's not to say we haven't had our ups and downs There’s been some real dingdongs like ‘I'm outta here’ you know? ‘See ya later Bye!’ That whole thing happens in a marriage It’s just too easy to throw in the towel when there are bad days but if you can just hang on through the grim tunes there’s only one way to go and that's up Even the bad times make you better Those tough experiences put you in the furnace where you’re fired your met-t- k is tested and you come out stronger” continued per a regular guy who A Hero A Scamp A Regular Guy k ?Z t ft'jfsh THE ROAD WARMOR (1M1)i — I Ma MVMNP9 U in VM r aoMI action fllmo mado i an Intarnationalatw MMBt tuaazM LETHAL WEAPON — MI NOQR OOflMCDF a looaa cannon" La 8 (M2) Danny Olovor — Mo cautloyo rv an aooa mob t In the tflMQH nfl Oataettva with partnar (MBVThotllm tnnttWilulir won Oaoara for Bwt Mroctor ((Mboon) and Baat Plcturo SIGNS (9002V In tho now thrWar Oboon playo a family ina Graham Haw (Mwn with Rory CnNu on hia aonK who la taateO whan a myatarioua BOO-foMan of drelM and UnM suddenly aaaoam carvad Into Ns a ot |