Mel Gibson's warning for the actor who played Jesus in the “Passions of Christ” / the actor went through terrible torments during filming, but is ready for the second part, “Resurrection”
Mel Gibson warned actor Jim Caviezel, when they first discussed the film “Passions of Christ”, that if he accepts the role of Jesus, this could destroy his career, the 56-year-old actor has now revealed.
Mel Gibson invested tens of millions of dollars in his money in the “passions of Christ” (“The Passion of the Christ”), launched in 2004, in which one of the main roles, was played by Romanian actress Maia Morgenstern. The film was a great success, with revenues of over $ 600 million from all over the world.
Now is the continuation of the film, “The Resurrection of Christ” (“The Resurrection of the Christ”) which is expected to be launched in 2026, also with Caviezel in the lead role.
“You want to play Jesus, don't you?”
The actor told the last days in a show at Fox News how he came to play the role of Jesus in the 2004 film.
After about 40 minutes, Gibson also appeared.
“I was talking about movies with surfers and all, and then it came to the movies with Christ, you know, the movies with Jesus. said Caviezel.
He told that he remembered then of the moment he was 19 and thought he heard the voice of God, who told him to become an actor.
“I said, 'God', that is, I do not blaspheme God, I do not take his name in the desert,” he said about meeting Gibson. “I literally said,” God, this is “and I said,” Do you want to play Jesus, right? “
He said that Gibson almost swallowed the cigarette he smoked and drowned, then replied: “Yes.”
Mel Gibson: “You may never work in this city again”
“And I said,” Okay, I have to do this. I don't need anyone to tell me “,” Caviezel replied, who was called two days later Gibson with a warning.
“He told me,” Do you really want to do this? ” He told me, “If you do this movie, you may never work in this city again,” and I said, “What?” “
“What I wanted to do was really happening, so I agreed with it,” he added.
During the film, Caviezel said he had confessed every day to “keep my temple as pure, so that he could come through me.”
The actor went through terrible torments during filming
He also went through terrible physical torments while working on the film, such as a double pneumonia, a state of hypothermia, a dislocated shoulder and a lightning bolt while hitting the cross.
“The pain was atrocious,” he said about the time spent on the cross, adding that, in the last sequence in the film, “I was broken in two by that lightning.”
He also said he had atrial fibrillation while he was on the cross and that a doctor on the plateau had returned to Gibson after listening to the stethoscope and said, “He could die.” After filming, Caviezel suffered two operations on the heart, which he said were caused by everything that happened in the movie.
Caviezel is preparing to play Jesus again in “The Resurrection of the Christ” and, although he is “scared” to assume his role again, he said he did not prepare if there was no certain fear.
