Jim Caviezel

“When you watch the end of the movie, I'm blue for a reason. My body's blue. There's no fake stuff there.”

Jim Caviezel · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-11

Caviezel explained that his body appears blue at the end of the film due to the physical effects of hypothermia during production.

“About five something in the morning, this presence came over me, and I know it was him,”

Jim Caviezel · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-11

Caviezel told Sean Hannity on his podcast that a presence he believed to be Jesus came over him early one morning.

“I said, 'Get somebody else,' and his countenance changed, and then he says, 'I don't have anybody else,'”

Jim Caviezel · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-11

Caviezel recalled that after he refused the role, the figure's countenance changed and the figure said he had nobody else to play it.

“Immediately, I was like, okay, this is part of the plan. I'm in,”

Jim Caviezel · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-11

After the encounter, Caviezel said he was convinced the role was his to play and accepted it.

“I was awake, but my eyes were closed, and he was sitting Indian style on the foot of my bed, and he said, 'It is not a requirement of you as a Catholic… to play this role.' And I said, 'Good, I won't. Get somebody else.'”

Jim Caviezel · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-11

Caviezel described a vision in which a figure he believed to be Jesus told him playing the role was not a Catholic requirement, and Caviezel initially refused.

“It nearly killed me,”

Jim Caviezel · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-11

Caviezel recalled the hypothermia he suffered while filming The Passion of the Christ.