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While out promoting his latest film, The Edge of Darkness, Mel Gibson has been answering a lot of questions about his 3-month-old baby Lucia. Predictably, Mel doesn’t seem too engaged with his daughter, and it’s slowly coming out in these interviews. Where Oksana has spent the past few months praising Mel in interview after interview, claiming that he’s “solid” and “faithful” and great with the baby, there’s some evidence that Mel has rather consistently been avoiding giving any help with the child. A few days ago he even let it slip to Jay Leno that this time around, he’s invested in some ear plugs:

He’s been a father seven times before, but this time Mel Gibson says it’s different.

“You know, you’re more mellow,” the actor, 54, said on The Jay Leno Show Tuesday. “There’s shortcuts, I guess. Earplugs, you know!”

When Leno asked, “Are you getting up at night, are you doing the whole deal?” Gibson replied, “I will be honest, I would say that her mother does the lion’s share of that work, but you know, I support her.”

There’s been another change since his girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva gave birth to a girl in November: Gibson gave up his 45-year-long smoking habit.

“It’s been 18 days,” the star of the new film Edge of Darkness says. “You know, it’s not funny. I mean, serious, you bury some serious anger. Most people do it when they’re five, they get their security blanket taken away. I did it at 54 and I’d been smoking 45 years. There’s a lot of anger underneath it.”

When asked why he was so determined to quit smoking now, Gibson said, “Well, apart from carrying the garbage up to the top of the driveway and wheezing… I have a three-month-old daughter and (someday) I want to play tennis with her.”

[From People]

“But you know, I support her.” Is that as bad as I think? Like, Mel’s at an age where he just wants to pay someone to take care of whatever. Like, maybe if he gives Oksana enough money, she’ll shut up and leave him alone. And the earplug thing? Unless he’s got some huge day planned for the next day, I find the idea of earplugs really disgusting. Ugh, whatever.

While on the red carpet two nights ago for the premiere, Mel also told Entertainment Tonight that baby Lucia “looks like her mother…except, she’s got blue eyes.” Does the baby look like her mother before all the plastic surgery?

Mel Gibson & Oksana at the LA premiere on January 26, 2010. Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures.

The much more interesting stuff coming out of the Edge of Darkness junket [via Collider and CHUD] was the fact that Gibson wants to shoot his Viking movie with some scenes in Old Norse, and that he’s been wanting to make a Viking movie since he was sixteen. The Viking film was, in fact, his “first thought about ever being a filmmaker.” At the time he was studying Old Norse (which is much like modern Icelandic), and wanted to make the film in that language. And he still does.

I think it’s going to be English – the English that would have been spoken back then – and Old Norse.  Whatever the 9th century had to offer.  I’m going to give you real.

I like that, but the language is just a part of his dream to create real, imposing Vikings on screen.

I want a Viking to scare you.  I don’t want a Viking to say, “I’m going to die with a sword in my hand.”  I don’t want to hear that.  It pulls the rug out from under you.  I want to see somebody who I have never seen before speaking low guttural German who scares the living shit out of me coming up to my house.  What is that like?  What would that have been like?

Knowing full well that Gibson doesn’t shy away from onscreen violence, he might actually scare the shit out of audiences with his Vikings. Glorious. (Also note that Old Norse would have been a northern Germanic language, so Gibson talking about someone speaking “low gutteral German” could be slightly mis-transcribed, or he could have been over-simplifying.)

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