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DTomlinson

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May 19, 2021

Jim Caviezel: possible Trump successor?

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.

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