More than two decades before his infamous roadside antisemitic rant, Mel Gibson was angling to star in “Schindler’s List.” According to the Hollywood Reporter, the “Mad Max” actor “was interested” in playing Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party who saved more than 1,000 Jews during the Holocaust. “Mel Gibson’s name came up,” Creative Artists Agency founder Michael Ovitz told the trade. “He was interested. His agent put him forward. But it wasn’t going to happen. Steven [Spielberg, the film’s director,] wanted a non-movie star for the part.” 3 Mel Gibson went on a bigoted rant about the “f–king...