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Article: Extreme Jesus If it wasn't going to be done right, to the violent 'fullness of the truth,' actor Jim Caviezel wasn't interested in portraying Christ.
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 22, 2004
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LOS ANGELES -- Playing Jesus meant a world of torment for Jim
Caviezel, who stars in Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ."
Caviezel dangled nearly naked on a cross in bone-chilling winds
through weeks of filming. He was struck by lightning during a re-
creation of the Sermon on the Mount. An actor playing a Roman
torturer cut a 14-inch gash in Caviezel's back during scenes of
Christ's scourging.
He dislocated his shoulder carrying the cross, caught pneumonia
and a lung infection, endured cuts, scrapes and backaches from the
chains he bore.
A devout Roman Catholic, Caviezel, 35, would not have had it any
other way.
He previously had turned down the role of Jesus in a play and two
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