In a feisty interview with Playboy, Gary Oldman talked about everything from reality TV to political correctness to his defense of controversial stars Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin.

“I just think political correctness is crap,” the Londoner said to Playboy. “I think it’s like, take a f–king joke. Get over it…,” Oldman stated of Gibson’s run-ins with the authorities and an infamous anti-Semitic diatribe in 2006, “I don’t know about Mel. He got drunk and said a few things, but we’ve all said those things. We’re all f–king hypocrites. That’s what I think about it. The policeman who arrested him has never used the word n—-r or that f–king Jew? I’m being brutally honest here. It’s the hypocrisy of it that drives me crazy. Or maybe I should strike that and say ‘the N word’ and ‘the F word,’ though there are two F words now.”

He went on to defend Baldwin, who has been chastised for using anti-gay slurs.

“Mel Gibson is in a town that’s run by Jews and he said the wrong thing because he’s actually bitten the hand that I guess has fed him — and doesn’t need to feed him anymore because he’s got enough dough. He’s like an outcast, a leper, you know?” Oldman added. ” But some Jewish guy in his office somewhere hasn’t turned and said, ‘That f—–g kraut’ or ‘F–k those Germans,’ whatever it is? We all hide and try to be so politically correct. That’s what gets me. It’s just the sheer hypocrisy of everyone, that we all stand on this thing going, ‘Isn’t that shocking?'”

Gibson’s outburst came eight years after he was detained in Malibu for alleged drunk driving. According to the police report, the actor asked the officer if he was Jewish, and when he was told yes, he said: “Fucking Jews. The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.”

Later, Oldman concedes that the interview went “very badly.” He tells the writer, after laughing and placing his head in his hands, “You have to edit and cut half of what I’ve said, because it’s going to make me sound like a bigot… I’m defending all the wrong people. I’m saying Mel’s all right, Alec’s a good guy. So how do I come across? Angry?”

“It’s dishonesty that frustrates me most,” he remarked. “I can’t bear double standards. It gets under my skin more than anything.”

While Oldman praised author Charles Krauthammer and his buddy David Bowie, he went on to criticize comedians like Jon Stewart and Bill Maher, claiming that they use comedy to cover their vulgar nature.

“Well, if I called Nancy Pelosi a c*** — and I’ll go one better, a f****** useless c*** — I can’t really say that. But Bill Maher and Jon Stewart can, and nobody’s going to stop them from working because of it. Bill Maher could call someone a fag and get away with it. He said to Seth MacFarlane this year, ‘I thought you were going to do the Oscars again. Instead they got a lesbian.’ He can say something like that. Is that more or less offensive than Alec Baldwin saying to someone in the street, ‘You fag’? I don’t get it.”

To allay any fears that Oldman has dug himself into a hole from which he can’t get out, he explained his position to Playboy, stating, “I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn’t share, but it’s not like I’m a fascist or a racist. There’s nothing like that in my history.”