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Despite starring in such successful films as "The Thin Red Line" and opposite some of Hollywood's biggest celebrities like Jennifer Lopez in "Angel Eyes," Caviezel never planned on being an actor. In fact, his dreams were set on the NBA. </div> <div> A Washington native, Caviezel dreamt of becoming a professional basketball player until an injury ended any chance of him playing in the pros. With no back-up career in mind, Caviezel decided to use his talent for acting to make something of himself. </div> <div> After he lied about being an Italian immigrant to land a cameo in "My Own Private Idaho," Caviezel turned down the opportunity to attend Juilliard to move to Los Angeles and accept a small role in "Wyatt Earp." Once in Los Angeles, Caviezel spent months waiting tables at local restaurants as he waited for his big break. Just as he was about to pack his bags and give up on being rich and famous, director Terrence Malick took a chance on the then unknown actor by casting him in the World War II epic, "The Thin Red Line." While the film received mixed reviews, it was enough to put Caviezel on the map... or at least was enough for his name to be recognized in Hollywood. </div> <div> "I remember walking out of a theater one time after seeing "The Thin Red Line" and a guy walked out and said, 'worst movie I've ever seen,'" Caviezel recalls with a laugh. "He didn't know who I was since I had a hat on, so I said, 'would you say it's better than "Striptease?"' He said, 'it's about the same.'" </div> <div> Caviezel's face may have not been recognized to those outside of the business just yet, but "The Thin Red Line" was enough for his acting career to slowly take off. He has since appeared in Ang Lee's "Ride with the Devil," opposite Dennis Quaid in the time traveling drama "Frequency" and with Helen Hunt and Kevin Spacey in "Pay It Forward." Now, with Touchstone Pictures' "The Count of Monte Cristo," another director is taking a chance on Caviezel, this time by casting him in the lead. That director is "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"' Kevin Reynolds. </div> <div> In "The Count of Monte Cristo" Caviezel plays Edmond Dantes, a young sailor who is stripped of everything when his best friend (Guy Pearce) frames him for a crime he knew nothing of. Trapped on the island prison of Chateau d'If for 13 years, Dantes' loving nature is replaced by hurt, anger and a quest for vengeance against those who took away his freedom and family. Upon his escape, Dantes transforms himself into the mysterious and powerful Count of Monte Cristo to plan out his revenge. While casting an actor who had never carried a film by himself before could worry some directors, Reynolds said he knew that Caviezel could take Edmond Dantes' drastic transformation with ease and was meant for the part. </div> <div> "He's got a real sort of ambiguous and mysterious aspect to him that I thought fit the Count," Reynolds says. "The Edmond Dantes character is really transparent. He's this naive, young sailor, but as he goes through this whole ordeal through the course of the story he becomes this ruthless, driven character who is haunted by what has happened to him. There is just something about Jim that I thought served that well. The big question was could he accomplish this naive innocent and then this ruthless, hardened man of the world. Some people can do one or the other, but to do both it's really very difficult. The extra difficult thing about that too is that when you are shooting a picture you are shooting out of continuity. So one day he would be the hardened man of the world and the next day this naive innocent and then the next day the guy in prison... so emotionally he had to jump all over the place from day to day. That was tough, but he pulled it off." </div> <div> Caviezel admits that he researched his character in great detail to successfully pull off the transformation, but that the way he studied his role wasn't the way most actors would approach such a part. Rather than study the other films based on the Alexandre Dumas' novel to see how they portrayed the character, Caviezel decided to study the author of the book to see where exactly the roots of Edmond Dantes came from. Drawing direct parallels from Dumas and Dantes, Caviezel felt that if he understood where the author and the story were coming from that he would understand his character. </div> <div> "I'm looking for things that are out there that I can draw from," Caviezel says. "I read the book and I found myself not caught up in the story as much as caught up in Alexandre Dumas. Why didn't his father accept him? What then pushed him to write this story about Edmond Dantes? He had this 'I'm going to show you' attitude that he was going to make something of his life so I wanted to know a lot about him. He wasn't accepted by his father so there was rejection there. So why did he have an affinity for Napoleon? Napoleon came from Corsica where he wasn't accepted and he went to military school where he wasn't accepted by Persians. Was it the way he spoke? The way he looked? Whatever it was his response to it all was that he was going to be the most brilliant of all, and there's the Count of Monte Cristo there. He wasn't going to just be a Count, he was going to be the most powerful Count of all." </div> <div> Once he had an idea of the mindset of the author and his character, Caviezel drew from other mediums to fully execute the role of the Count of Monte Cristo. In one of the most memorable scenes of the film where the Count first introduces himself to those who betrayed Edmond Dantes, Caviezel relied on his own instincts to create the scene and not just the script. </div> <div> "My line, 'greetings,' wasn't written in the script," Caviezel recalls. "I just walked up and Kevin said to say whatever I wanted. I just kept having this vision of my teeth coming to a point and blood dripping down while I was trying to lick some of it and just saying, 'greetings. You are all dead, it's just a matter of time now.' It was just wonderful." </div> <div> Reynolds' willingness to listen to the ideas Caviezel had when portraying the character meant a lot to the actor, especially during the love scene he shares with actress Dagmara Dominczyk. Caviezel felt extremely uncomfortable that the script called for Dominczyk's bare breasts to be pressed up against his chest, so Reynolds' worked with Caviezel to make the scene more comfortable for him without losing the passion the scene called for. </div> <div> "It's not necessarily embarrassing, I just have so much respect for my wife and that's just something that I have a hard time with," Caviezel says. "Abstinence is important in my faith and to tell kids to be abstinence and to do things where my character is not... I struggle with that. I think that Hollywood just pushes it too far. I think that you can still show romance without showing nudity." </div> <div> While the role of Edmond Dantes was the opportunity of a lifetime for Caviezel to show his range as an actor, it did take its toll on him. Caviezel admits that no matter how much he loved the part, by the end of the day he was questioning the amount of time and dedication a leading role required and whether or not he would do it again. </div> <div> "You just go into another world. You go there and you film and you are continuously working on dialect, scenes, asking 'why is this being done, why is this guy here, why, why?' You are completely giving yourself," he says. "I tried not to take it home with me but it's hard not to. When the day is done I'm completely tired and fed up with it and I just want to go home and sleep-- just relax. Our schedule was so tight, we were working 16 to 18 hours a day and a week was like a long day. I remember the last day we filmed we did 21, 22 hours straight. I'm so sick of it by the end of the day I want to get as far away as I can from it because it can drive you completely insane." </div> <div> Despite the long hours though, Caviezel plans to stick with his acting career for as long as possible. He hopes that "The Count of Monte Cristo" will be the film that will finally show Hollywood that he can do more than just be moody and temperamental, and that hopefully one day he will get to fulfill one more dream he has-- the dream to star in a feature film comedy. </div> <div> "I love what I do. I love the charge out of it and trying to get it right. It's like fitting a square peg into a circular hole and doing it over and over again. But when you make a film like "The Thin Red Line" people will say 'that's what he's like' so it's easy to play that role," Caviezel says. "I remember when I was back in Seattle and I did a play, a Neil Simon comedy, and a lady came with a casting director-- I think they were doing a Cameron Crowe film up there, "Singles"-- to watch the play and told my manager, 'I think he's great, but I just don't see him as a dramatic actor.' So it's how you make it in the business. People just won't see you as something. I've been looking for a good comedy for a long time, but I just haven't found one yet or the ones that are out there I'm not the first name that comes up. It will eventually come one way or another, but I won't do anything until it's a really great script... and I'll always find a great script to do." </div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>