He Let Jesus Christ into His Body | Jim Caviezel’s Portrayal of Jesus – A Performance of Pure Faith

one of the things that I thought was uh

fascinating was reading uh and listening

to Jim cavel talk about his experience

playing Christ in your film yeah that it

just truly changed that guy's the course

of his whole life well it was

fascinating to watch him work actually

and most of the time I just like backed

away because he was doing something that

and I've seen a lot of people

portray Jesus in films right and I never

buy it

you can't quite buy it something Creeps

in the color it that's not something

something's not right or discordant he

did something I think that nobody else

did and I think he pulled it off because

I to I totally like believed it I

believed it too and it was like what did

he do he emptied himself out yeah and he

invited something else in and he left it

he he just he didn't try anything just

he emptied himself out and he

meditated and he let Christ in when I

was trying to cast it I thought who

could play this and I saw the opening

shot from Terry Malik's film which was

The Thin Red Line

MH um and uh and it was just a big

closeup of cisel and there was something

otherworldly and childlike going on

there in the closeup and I thought who's

that guy he's amazing of course you

couldn't keep the blue eyes you had to

you had to trade him out so I I changed

the color of his eyes to Brown and and

all that stuff so it looked like he came

from the region right but uh um amazing

what he already had a quality an

ethereal kind of Otherworld space cadet

quality yeah that and he's he's still

kind of like that he's still like wow

yeah he's I want I want I wish I had met

him or I haven't met him still but I

wish I'd seen him before and then after

you to see like what did that role

change him because it seemed to have

strengthened his faith sure it did yeah

yeah he got he got in real tight with it

and I think he had some experiences

while he was doing it he suffered a

little you know and uh didn't he get

struck by lightning well there's two

times there was these lightning strikes

happening on the set