Mel Gibson He warned Jim Caviezel when they first discussed “The Passion of Christ” that if he assumed the role of Jesus could get his career, said the 56 -year -old actor this week.
Caviezel said that originally with Gibson’s producer about making a surfer movie, but “the script was there.”
About 40 minutes after the meeting with Steve Mceveeth, Gibson appeared.
“We were talking about surf films and everything, and then turns in the films of Christ, you know, Jesus’ films. Well, that is not a surf film. It is not Jesus in a surf table. How will that work?” Caviezel told Fox News, Raymond Arroyo, in his Podcast “Arroyo Grande” On Wednesday.
Caviezel said he remembered when he was 19, and believed that the voice of God spoke with him and tolerate as an actor.
“I went,” Oh my God, “I mean, I’m not blaspheming God, I’m not prohibiting his name in vain,” he said about the meeting with Gibson. “I literally said:” Oh my God, this is, “and I said:” You want me to play Jesus, right? ”
He said that Gibson almost swallowed the cigarette he was smoking, and choked: “Yes.”
“And I said: ‘ok, I’m in’, and for the cinema [incident]I said: “I am supposed to do this. I don’t need anyone to tell me to do this.”
Gibson called him two days later to warn him.
“Hey,” do you really want to do this? “He says,” if you make this movie, you may never work back in this city, “and I was,” What? “
Caviezel said: “What I wanted to do was what really happened, so I agreed with that.”
While making the movie, Caviezel said he went to confession every day to “keep my temple as pure as possible so that he could cross me.”
He also went through severe physical anguish while working in the film, which included double pneumonia, hypothermia, separating his shoulder and being Beaten While on the cross.
“The pain was formerly,” he said or his time on the cross, and added that in the last shot of the film, “they started half of that ray.”
He said he also had atrial fibrillation while he was on the cross and that a Doctor Set turned to Gibson after hearing his heart through a stethoscope and said: “could.”
After the session, Caviezel underwent two cardiac surgeries that, according to him, voted for everything that happened in the movie.
The cross was manipulated with a bicycle seat that could sit in the session session, and Caviezel said he was so exhausted that he would sleep while he was there.
“I couldn’t stay awake,” he said about the exhausting session.
It is only scum in his makeup that tok about eight hours to wear.
“It was a constant torment,” he said, he felt that he brought him closer to Jesus’ suffering.
When they reached the crucifixion scenes, he said, they all succeeded due to the separation of the shoulders.
“He forced me to enter the arms of my God because he had nowhere to go,” he told Arroyo.
But he said he said he realized how much God “loves me, wanted to do it for him.”
“However, it was fine, because it was part of the purpose of why I was born,” he added.
He added: “The movies that we make control the narrative of the world, and the world did not like this movie, and that is something good, so we did a good job.”
Caviezel prepares to interpret Jesus once again in “the resurrection of Christ”, and although he is “scared” to assume the role again, he said he knows that he would not be ready there.
Gibson invested dozens of millions of his own money in “The Passion of the Christ” from 2004, and the film was a great success, raising more than $ 600 million worldwide.
Is the most like Religious film At the global box office, according to the Guinness book of world records.
“The resurrection of Christ” is expected to be released in 2026.
