Article: Culture: Caviezel counts his blessings; Playing the Count of Monte Cristo touched the spirituality of actor Jim Caviezel, writes Mike Davies.(Features)

Byline: Mike Davies

In an attack of the Laurence Fishburnes, Jim Caviezel now likes to be known as James. It denotes that he sees himself as a serious 'ac-tor' and others should do likewise. He's 6ft 2in of serious young man with an intensity to match his high cheekbones.

You would have got that much from seeing him in The Thin Red Line, his breakthrough role in which he played the film's spiritual centre, Private Witt. He'd impressed director Terence Malick, not with his CV (at that point just no-count roles in G I Jane, The Rock and Wyatt Earp plus a ...

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