British actor Gary Oldman appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Wednesday night to apologize “for saying some things that were poorly considered” during an interview with Playboy magazine earlier this week.
He acknowledged that defending Alec Baldwin and Mel Gibson for their anti-Semitic and homophobic rants was “insensitive, pernicious and ill-informed.”
“Words have meaning, and they carry weight,” he said. “And they carry on long after you’ve said them. I don’t condone or excuse the words that I used in any context. I just basically shouldn’t have used them, but I did, and I have injured and wounded a great many people.”
In apologizing, Oldman admitted that he was not a social or political commentator, and that in making his remarks, he stepped outside of the area of his expertise and made statements that he was unqualified to make.
