Danny Glover Defends Mel Gibson: That’s My Friend’.

Glover chatted with MTV News on Friday at the Sundance Film Festival about the news of their franchise’s remake, saying, “I’d like to think that the four we did were still magical and people will still reference the four ‘Lethal Weapon’ [films].” The actor also spoke about his on- and offscreen friend, who has since fallen from grace in the public eye.

“I love Mel. That’s my friend,” Glover said of Gibson, adding, “He’s had tough times. We’ve all had tough times.”

In fact, the actor, who was attending Sundance to screen his latest film, “Black Power Mixtape,” said he has been in touch with Gibson, who has been keeping a very low profile in the wake of all the controversy. Glover said that they saw one another most recently at a memorial in Los Angeles, where they happily greeted each other. “We ran up and hugged each other, man,” he recalled.

When asked whether the revelations about Gibson over the past year resemble the friend he knows, Glover opted to keep mum. “I can’t comment on that,” he said, adding, “I only know what I know.”

The actor went on to say that the Gibson he knows is “a very generous man, a man that … whatever he goes through … is always searching for something and searching for meaning in his life.’ ”

Glover isn’t the only friend and former co-star of Gibson’s to come to his defense. In the October issue of More, Jodie Foster, who worked with the troubled star on the 1994 comedy Western “Maverick,” told the magazine Gibson was the “easiest, nicest person I’ve ever worked with.” She went on to say, “The second I met him, I said, ‘I will love this man for the rest of my life.”