Posted on 02/28/2004 7:45:19 AM PST by RayChuang88
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT 2:40 PM EST
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, this is an exciting moment. We have the star of the movie "The Passion of the Christ." Jim Caviezel is on the phone, has given us (a call). Jim, this is a surprise. It's a thrill to talk to you. Welcome to the EIB Network.
CAVIEZEL: Oh, well, thank you very much, Rush.
RUSH: Jim, I have to tell you something. I... where are you calling from, by the way?
CAVIEZEL: I'm calling you from Los Angeles.
RUSH: Los Angeles. Are you surprised by what's happened?
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.
RUSH: Well one of the things that has -- one of the things I've noticed and I would be remiss if I didn't mention this to you is that in all of the -- and I saw the movie back in July, and all of the talk about the movie since then and especially since the opening, you have really, you know, not gotten a whole lot of discussion because of the controversy surrounding Mel Gibson. But your work in this movie, the makeup alone. How long did it take you to get made up every day for this? I mean, this has to be one of the most physically laborious roles that you could ever have.
CAVIEZEL: Yes. Rush, during the (shooting) we'd start makeup for the crucifixion scenes at two in the morning, and I'd go till ten, and about two hours of maintenance on it during the day, in freezing temperatures, and then they took two hours to take it off at night. And then at the same time I separated my shoulder. so I was dealing with hypothermia, and I got very sick up there.
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I can just imagine her fuming at Mr. Caviezel calling in to Rush's show!
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?"
Ain't it the truth!
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?"
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'."
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!
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."
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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.
Get it!! it is fantastic!
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