Winona reveals Mel Gibson's antisemitic joke

Ms Ryder, told GQ magazine that the incident happened 15 years ago at a Hollywood party.

She said: “He was really drunk. Somehow it came up that I was Jewish. He said something about 'oven dodgers', but I didn't get it.

“I'd never heard that before.”

The star said she was with a gay friend at the time and that Mr Gibson had made a “really horrible joke” at his expense.

She added: “It was just this weird, weird moment. And I was like, 'He's antisemitic and he's homophobic’. No one believed me.”

Ms Ryder, who stars alongside Jewish actresses Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis in the upcoming film Black Swan, is the daughter of a Jewish author and publisher called Michael Horowitz

As a teenager she appeared in the Tim Burton black comedy Beetlejuice. She also starred in the film adaptation of Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible and was Oscar-nominated for both The Age of Innocence and Little Women.