Jim Caviezel, actor: How being a dad has changed his life

Catholic Digest ^ | August 19, 2009 | Julie L. Rattey

[NYer]

Jim Caviezel

A closer look at Jim Caviezel

Favorite prayers: Our Father, Hail Mary, prayer to St. Michael

Role he’d like to play: “I think I finally found a comedy, but we’ll see. I used to do Neil Simon. And [now] they go, ‘Oh no, he played Jesus.’”

Best advice he's received: “Someone told me a long time ago what a man does in private is who he really is.”

One of his favorite things to do with his family: “I like swimming. That’s when I can get physical with my kids — actually pick them up and throw them. They say, ‘Daddy, do it again!’”

What he’s learned about family from basketball: “A family to me can be a really bad team or a really good team. I refer to teams because I played on basketball teams for 17 years into college, and I played on good ones and bad ones.

I have a wife who is a basketball player, and both of us have that mentality that some days you don’t particularly want to go out and play that day or practice that day. But the only way to [succeed] is to practice. It can’t be tied to feelings. That’s not what it’s about.”

[NYer]

Did “The Passion” go too far?
Jim Caviezel on movie violence

“The Passion of the Christ” was both lauded and criticized for its brutal depiction of the Crucifixion. Caviezel’s new film, “The Stoning of Soraya M.” (from the producers of “The Passion”) is rated R for its depiction of the stoning of an innocent woman in Iran. Besides the fact that such depictions, Caviezel says, are less brutal than the realities they reflect, Caviezel says showing such atrocities is part of telling the story of what really happened.

“What I don’t understand,” he says, “is that [these events are] so horrific, but when good filmmakers try to tell a story, it’s almost as if it’s a greater evil that those filmmakers and actors — who are putting their lives on the line to show a story — are showing what really happened than for those men (depicted in “The Stoning of Soraya M.) to have taken that girl and beaten and killed her like that. And that’s what I feel we’ve become in the culture — that (people think) it is a worse evil to show the world what real evil is. It’s 'How dare you take away my naïveté.' That to me is like Marie Antoinette saying 'Let them eat cake.'”

[Maverick68]

His version of “The Count of Monte Christo” is a must see....

[spectre]

God threw away the mold after he created that face...

sw

[max americana]

Thanks for that post. JC is the real deal...Caveziel, I mean.

[Third Person]

He was excellent in The Thin Red Line as well.

Guy Pearce is quite the villian in The Count of Monte Cristo...it’s a great rental.

[Steelfish]

As always, interesting posts by you!

[Shelayne]

I agree. I watched it not too long ago. He is amazing.

I played the lead of Comte de Monte Cristo in my junior high French class; none of the boys would volunteer for the part of Dante. I remember one of my lines, “Je suis libre! Je suis libre!” Our Mademoiselle Decker filmed it, and we laughed at how “retarded” (that was the word we used then) it was, and she was not amused. It was a very condensed version. Ah, memories. :^)

[frogjerk]

Pingage!

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

You reprise your role as Jesus in The Word of Promise audio Bible.

What exactly is this? Link?

[madamemayhem]

what he said about adoption is soooo true. as soon as i saw the picture of this little girl with a port wine stain and a somber expression on her face i knew... i called my husband and said “ honey, you won’t believe this but i am right now looking at a picture of our daughter.” i sent the pic to his cell phone and he said “yep, that’s her, but why did God send her to China first?” that is really how we see it, our baby got rerouted to china and we had to go fetch her, but God made sure we found her.

[thesearethetimes...]

http://www.thewordofpromise.com/

Tatt

[jocon307]

Great post, thank you!

[AmericanArchConservative]

great profile article - warm and inspiring!

[Northern Yankee]

Thank you.

It does my heart wonders to see that there are good men out there in Hollywood who continue to live by their convictions and deep abiding faith!

[Northern Yankee]

Thank you.

This really looks good!

[Jemian]

Boy, howdy! Took my breath away, it did.

[Jemian]

Thanks for the ping. What a great story and I pray that God will continue to richly bless him and he can influence hollywood through his life.

[Northern Yankee]

Thank you, and good morning!

I really am intrigued at the Word Of Promise audio version of the Bible. (Post # 12)

It sounds wonderful.

[Tax-chick]

Thanks for the ping. What a great interview! Jim Caviezel spoke at our diocesan Eucharistic Conference a few years ago ... maybe the year I was expecting Vlad? I still have the notes somewhere. His wife spoke, too. She was charming.