For Apocalypto, Mel Gibson cast primarily Indigenous people from Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, many of whom had little or no previous acting experience. To add to the film’s authenticity, the entire movie was performed in the Yucatec Maya language.
At just 22, Connor Gibson is doing something he never dreamed possible: using his engineering skills to 3D print dentures for America's most vulnerable people — and giving them back their sense of dignity in the process.