Jim Caviezel: possible Trump successor?

[DTomlinson]

For most people—i.e., those who didn’t enjoy the actually quite excellent Person Of Interest—Jim Caviezel is probably still best known as Jesus from The Passion Of The Christ. Now, though, Caviezel is apparently launching a dramatic and ambitious career reinvention, seeking to wrest the coveted title of “Worst opinion held by someone involved in making The Passion Of The Christ” from his old friend Mel Gibson. Specifically, Caviezel popped in this weekend to the Health Freedom Summit in Tulsa Oklahoma, a right-wing meeting of the quote unquote minds designed to super-spread a whole lot of really terrible ideas about vaccines, COVID, etc. to everyone involved, in order to add his own particular semi-famous spin to the proceedings. (And, re: the conference: If you want to get a handle on its politics and factual rigor, you don’t have to look much further than the fact that Andrew Wakefield, the man who pretty much single-handedly crafted the old “vaccines cause autism” lie, is one of its most prominently listed speakers.)

Talking to host Clay Clark, Caviezel was ostensibly discussing his new movie about Tim Ballard, the former Department Of Homeland Security agent who’s spent the last decade or so investigating child sex trafficking rings. While talking about the film—including the fact that Ballard was so moved by Caviezel’s performance as Christ himself that he thought he might have the chops to play Ballard, too—Caviezel dropped a delightful little nugget of PizzaGate-style rhetoric into the conversation when he mentioned “the adrenochroming of children.”

https://film.avclub.com/jim-caviezel-drops-in-on-right-wing-conspiracy-theorist-1846705677

The guy literally played Jesus Christ! Long-standing credibility with the white evangelicals and right-wing Catholics, big QAnon promoter, is a Hollywood/pop culture guy (see: Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Donald Trump), by all accounts a total narcissistic asshole in Hollywood (but I repeat myself)...

All I'm saying is: watch this space. Jim could win Republican primaries if he wanted to.

[SoCalNative]

1. To be fair

he played Jesus Christ according to Mel Gibson and the wacky Catholic sect he and Caveziel follow.

[DTomlinson]

2. Which is exactly why he'd be attractive to Republican voters.

[jimfields33]

7. What a movie. Dramatic.

I only watched it once at the theater. Couldn’t imagine watching it again. If he runs, he’ll have to work for the nomination just like everyone else. I just don’t see it. I’ve seen a few interviews and he is boring.

[Midnight Writer]

12. Folks around here flocked to that movie, some seeing it over and over.

Then they wouldn't shut up about it.

I've never seen it, but I feel like I could write a knowledgeable review just because I've heard so many people talking about it.

They even had screenings in a lot of the Protestant Churches.

[EYESORE 9001]

3. AKA The Golgotha Chainsaw Massacre

[XanaDUer2]

13. I call it the Jesus Chainsaw Massacre nt

[Turbineguy]

4. He sounds highly qualified

to replace trump.

[UTUSN]

5. Neh, too literal. A Drumpf replacement has to be out-of-the-box?

[dawg day]

6. Nah... he actually believes and cares about his idiocy

The GOP wants a total cynic, able to twist and contort like Trump


This guy is too dedicated to his crazy. He will spook them. When he was talking about children being killed for "adenochrone," he's crying and vowing he's witnessed it. He clearly believes it all.

They'll find he's a rusty nail too far for them.

[RockRaven]

8. Anyone who wants to know how weird and incompetent this guy is should listen to the most recent

episode of the "QAnon Anonymous" podcast. Episode 143. I just listened to it, and holy shit this dude's brain is totally melted and dribbling out of his ears...

[brooklynite]

9. As mediocre an actor as Reagan was, he had far more public presence than Jim Caviezel....

Caviezel could walk down Hollywood Blvd and not be noticed.

[prodigitalson]

10. Jesus

Christ

[nuxvomica]

11. I have long disliked the guy as an actor

He barely registers emotion in his performances and he ruined an otherwise wonderful film called Frequency with his dead eyes and vacant aspect.