Mel Gibson cuts a portly, 19th century figure filming new movie in Dublin

Never fear, Mad Max hasn’t been at the pies.

Rather, that’s a protruding false belly that Mel Gibson is rocking, while filming his latest movie role in Dublin.

And that’s a rather impressive stovepipe hat he’s sporting too, not to mention that massive bushy beard, which appears to be all his own.

He completes the look with a belly-hugging waistcoat, pocket watch, and overcoat, though the New Balance do let the side down a bit.

The 60-year-old actor and director is starring in the most intriguing ‘The Professor and the Madman’, based on Simon Winchester’s non-fiction book ‘The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words’, published in 1998.

Long planned for the screen, it finds Gibson playing Professor James Murray, the learned gent who oversaw the compilation of the very first Oxford English Dictionary in 1857.

In his pursuit of words and their definitions, he receives 10,000 entries from Dr. William Chester Minor, a retired US Army surgeon imprisoned at the Broadmoor asylum for the criminally insane.

Chester Minor is played by Sean Penn in the movie, directed by Farhad Safinia, a debut outing behind the camera for the screenwriter behind Gibson’s South American epic ‘Apocalypto’.

Also on the bill are ‘Game of Thrones’ star Natalie Dormer, Ioan Gruffudd, Steve Coogan, Laurence Fox, Jeremy Irvine, and ‘Downton’s Brendan Patricks.

Meanwhile, the script has been written by directing legend John Boorman, of ‘Deliverance’ fame, with Todd Komarnicki.

The movie is due for release some time next year.

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