MrsSpringsteen
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Playing Jesus, or being associated with that particular movie? I can't believe he couldn't/can't get work in Hollywood, he's a beautiful looking man. Never saw the Passion Of The Christ...I think I saw a movie he was in w/ JLo? I did see Frequency.
Is it that or maybe he's just not an actor who doesn't fit into some Hollywood mold? Mel Gibson got work after Passion- and even with all of his issues, he certainly hasn't been rejected by many people in Hollywood. He seems to have plenty of defenders and friends there. His career now is obviously more about those issues. What about other actors who have played Jesus? Of course there haven't been all that many, lately.
The man who played Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson's much criticized "Passion of the Christ," says the role has been his "cross to bear," and that Hollywood has shunned him ever since making the film.
Jim Caviezel, who, before taking the role of Jesus, was a rising Hollywood star with strong reviews for his work in "Frequency," and "The Thin Red Line," told an audience at First Baptist Church of Orlando on Saturday that Gibson begged him to reconsider taking the gig.
"He said, 'You'll never work in this town again,'" Caviezel remembered. "I told him, 'We all have to embrace our crosses.'"
Caviezel recounted a similar story in 2004, when he spoke of the encounter in an interview with the 700 Club.
"The next day, he said, 'I want you to be aware of what you are going to go through. You may never work again.' He said that several times publicly. I told him, 'Mel, this is what I believe. We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it. So let's go and do it.' And we began with the film.
The filmmaker proved prophetic; the film was slammed for perceived anti-semitism, and roles have been hard to come by, as Caviezel says he was "rejected by [his] own industry."
Following "Passion," he starred in the small thriller "Unknown," had a supporting role in the Denzel Washington film "Deja Vu," and headlined absolute bombs "Outlander," and "The Stoning of Soraya M."
Jim Caviezel speaks: Jim Caviezel speaks in Orlando - OrlandoSentinel.com
Is it that or maybe he's just not an actor who doesn't fit into some Hollywood mold? Mel Gibson got work after Passion- and even with all of his issues, he certainly hasn't been rejected by many people in Hollywood. He seems to have plenty of defenders and friends there. His career now is obviously more about those issues. What about other actors who have played Jesus? Of course there haven't been all that many, lately.
The man who played Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson's much criticized "Passion of the Christ," says the role has been his "cross to bear," and that Hollywood has shunned him ever since making the film.
Jim Caviezel, who, before taking the role of Jesus, was a rising Hollywood star with strong reviews for his work in "Frequency," and "The Thin Red Line," told an audience at First Baptist Church of Orlando on Saturday that Gibson begged him to reconsider taking the gig.
"He said, 'You'll never work in this town again,'" Caviezel remembered. "I told him, 'We all have to embrace our crosses.'"
Caviezel recounted a similar story in 2004, when he spoke of the encounter in an interview with the 700 Club.
"The next day, he said, 'I want you to be aware of what you are going to go through. You may never work again.' He said that several times publicly. I told him, 'Mel, this is what I believe. We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it. So let's go and do it.' And we began with the film.
The filmmaker proved prophetic; the film was slammed for perceived anti-semitism, and roles have been hard to come by, as Caviezel says he was "rejected by [his] own industry."
Following "Passion," he starred in the small thriller "Unknown," had a supporting role in the Denzel Washington film "Deja Vu," and headlined absolute bombs "Outlander," and "The Stoning of Soraya M."
Jim Caviezel speaks: Jim Caviezel speaks in Orlando - OrlandoSentinel.com