"The Passion" Actor Calls EIB Network

Rush Limbaugh web site ^ | February 27, 2004 | Rush Limbaugh

[RayChuang88]

This is a superb interview with Jim Canviezel, the actor that played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ. I think Mr. Canviezel is kind of surprised by the extraordinary success of this movie, given the all-out denounciation of the movie by the secularist Left and their toadies in the mainstream media.

[dinok]

JC was on Lenno last ngiht. He was pleasent and very personable. He was doing Mel Gibson impressions.

[Paul Atreides]

I'm going to have to check out his movies. He was in a recent version of The Count of Monte Cristo.

[ECM]

Frequency! His best film prior to this one.

[Paul Atreides]

I couldn't help but wonder: has Barbra Streisand managed to post her exalted opinion, of this movie, on her website?

I can just imagine her fuming at Mr. Caviezel calling in to Rush's show!

[N. Theknow]

He was in a recent version of The Count of Monte Cristo.

Best dialog in that movie was when Richard Harris (in the role of another prisoner in an adjoining cell) tunneled up into his cell. He asked of Caviezel , "So, how long have been here."

Caviezel: "Long enough to count all the stones in my cell."

Harris: "Ah yes. But have you named them yet?"

[wizardoz]

Jim Caviezel seems like an alright dude. I thought he was great in THIN RED LINE and COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. Very unusual fellow.

[dawn53]

The Count of Monte Cristo was a wonderful movie, IMHO.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

His initials are JC and he is 33 years old......... astounding

[EGPWS]

CAVIEZEL: You know, I guess a little bit, but the subject itself is very controversial and I don't think much has changed in 2,000 years.

Ain't it the truth!

[Mylesdad]

Thanks for posting this interview. My wife didn't catch it live, and I had a hard time remembering the details. Now, she can read for herself, and hopefully come to the conclusion I did, that Jim C. seems to be a really good guy! I hope and pray that there are more like him in Hollywood who see what the rest of America feels about religious and conservative causes, and will gain the courage to live their beliefs openly! Maybe there are some folks who believe like Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne, and will feel more comfortable to be openly conservative in Hollywood (what a twisted world we live in...)

[Spunky]

Jim Caviezel went through a lot to make this movie. He was telling about when he was hanging on the cross on a cliff in Italy and the wind was so forceful his shoulder was dislocated. He told about when they were beating him with the whip it was supposed to hit a board that was strapped to his back but one of the actors portraying a Roman soldier missed and it actually hit him and tore his skin open.

Also he was hit by lightening. Rush asked him what he said or did. Jim said; "I looked up in the sky and said you didn't like that take did you?"

[Paul Atreides]

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001029/bio

Biography for
James Caviezel

Birth name
James Patrick Caviezel

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Height
6' 2" (1.88 m)

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Spouse
Kerri Caviezel (1997 - present)

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Trivia

Grew up in a tight-knit Catholic family.

Dad is Jim, Mom is Maggie

3 sisters-Ann, Amy, Erin 1 brother-Tim

Guest appearance on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" 24 April, 2000

His surname is Romansch (Rhaeto-Romanic), from Switzerland.

Met his wife, Kerri, on a blind date in 1993. She is a high school English teacher.

Played basketball in college, but took up acting after injuring his foot.

Drove the pace car in the Indy 500 Race in May of 2002

Refused to film a love scene with on-screen wife Ashley Judd for their film, High Crimes (2002). The idea of possible nudity conflicted with Jim's personal beliefs, based on his strong Catholic faith.

Dislocated his shoulder during the filming of Passion, The (2004).

Received an honorary degree from King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA at their commencement on 18 May 2003. Gave a fire-and-brimstone speech based on his interpretation of Catholicism.

In an oddly poetic coincidence, he was struck by lightning while filming his role of Jesus in "The Passion of Christ".

Was struck by lighting during the filming of Mel Gibson's "Passion". Assistant director Jan Michelini was also hit (for the second time during the shoot). A crew member said "I'm about a hundred feet away from them when I glance over and see smoke coming out of Caviezel's ears."

His co-star Elizabeth Mitchell who played his mother in Frequency said about him: "Jim is the perfect son, if I had a son like him I would be a very proud mother".

Shares a birthday with actor Kent McCord from "Adam-12 (1968)" and actress Julie London from "Emergency! (1972)"

Personal quotes "My mom's 100% Irish, and in my family we've always called acting 'blarney'."

[Pharmer]

He was in a recent version of The Count of Monte Cristo.

This is one of my favorite DVD's. I had not seen it it the theaters so it must have been ho-hummed by the critics. There were no major stars in it other than the late Richard Harris. My daughter pointed out it out to me when shopping for DVD's at Best Buy last summer. I put this in the Pharmer home theater Hall of fame along with Seabiscuit, Signs, the Sixth Sence, The Fifth Element, and Interview with a Vampire.

Like the Passion the story of the Count of Monte Cristo is a cool story that needed no major star power. I finaly got my wife to watch it last weekend and she loved it. Caviezel is a good actor and now will be star. Take that Hollyweird!

[angkor]

I'm going to have to check out his movies.

The Thin Red Line.

It's interesting that Terrence Malick - the director of TRL - is also said to be devoutly religious. And there's little doubt that TRL is a "spiritual" film (though not on the same order as The Passion).

Malick chose Canviezel as the star of TRL only during editing. During the actual filming, there was no specific "star". Here are some of Canviezel's voiceover lines:

"We were a family. How'd it break up and come apart so that now we're turned against each other, each standing in the other's light? How'd we lose the good that was given us, let it slip away, scattered, careless? What's keeping us from reaching out, touching the glory?"

"Who were you that I lived with, walked with? The brother, the friend? Strife and love, darkness and light--are they the workings of one mind, features of the same face? Oh my soul. Let me be in you now. Look out through my eyes. Look out at the things you made. All things shining."

[Paul Atreides]

Now, I really want to get the DVD!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

He was in a recent version of The Count of Monte Cristo.

!!!!!!

I knew I recognized him from some other film but couldn't place him!

He was excellent as Edmund Dantes. Full of a quiet, steely rage. Richard Harris was quite good too, as usual.

This version of "The Count of Monte Cristo" was an excellent movie. But then, it is one of my all time favorite stories.

[Theo]

"Frequency" was a great movie. It seems to be one of those "sleeper" movies that didn't get much press at all, but it really had me gripped throughout it (even though the premise if fairly unbelievable). :-)

[mylife]

>I>He was in a recent version of The Count of Monte Cristo.

Get it!! it is fantastic!

[Paul Atreides]

I bought the novel, with a cover that is a tie-in to to movie. I wanted to see the movie, but was uneasy about it, considering how Follywood desecrates classic literature.