VIDEO: Listen to Jim Caviezel’s Testimony about Playing the Role of Jesus

Jim Caviezel, the actor who played Jesus in the controversial, yet amazing movie “The Passion of the Christ” – directed by Mel Gibson, gives a powerful interview about the way he prepared for the role. The actor confessed he was deeply moved by the role and he agrees with the fact that God is the answer to all our questions. God is light, God is forever. Praise the Lord!

Here is some additional information on this incredibly dedicated actor – personal life and career, provided by Wikipedia.

Jim Caviezel was born in Mount Vernon, Washington, the son of Margaret (née Lavery), a former stage actress and housewife, and James Caviezel, a chiropractor. He has a younger brother, Timothy, and three sisters, Ann, Amy, and Erin. He was raised in a tightly knit Catholic family in Conway, Washington. His surname is of Romansh origin. His father is of Slovak and Swiss descent, while his mother is of Irish descent. His father attended UCLA and played basketball for coach John Wooden, prompting all the Caviezel siblings to play the sport.

Caviezel attended Mount Vernon High School for two years before moving to Seattle, Washington, where he lived with family friends in order to play basketball at O’Dea High School, a Catholic all boys high school. The following spring, he transferred from O’Dea to another Catholic school, John F. Kennedy Memorial High School in Burien, Washington, where he played basketball and graduated in 1987. He then enrolled at Bellevue College, where he played college basketball. A foot injury in his second year put an end to his dream of becoming an NBA player, and he transferred to the University of Washington, where he turned his focus to acting and became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.

Caviezel began acting in plays in Seattle. He earned his Screen Actors Guild card with a minor role in the 1991 film My Own Private Idaho. He then moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. He was offered a scholarship to study acting at New York’s Juilliard School in 1993, but he turned it down to portray Warren Earp in the 1994 film Wyatt Earp. He later appeared in an episode of Murder, She Wrote and The Wonder Years. After appearing in G.I. Jane (1997), he had a breakthrough performance in the 1998 Terence Malick-directed World War II film The Thin Red Line. He played Black John, a Missouri bushwhacker, in Ride with the Devil (1999), an American Civil war film.

In 1996, Caviezel married Kerri Browitt, a high school English teacher. They have adopted three children. They are both devout Catholics.Caviezel has been a featured public speaker at religious venues since the release of The Passion of the Christ. On March 19, 2005, he was the spokesman for the first Catholic Men’s Conference in Boston. Caviezel’s wife is the sister-in-law of Dallas Cowboys coordinator Scott Linehan. She and Linehan’s wife, Kristen, are sisters. In 2006, Caviezel enrolled in at least one class as a part-time student at the University of Notre Dame.

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