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An ex-basketball player from Mount Vernon, Washington (he wanted to be a point-guard in college; after a foot injury, his coach suggested he try acting), Caviezel has blue-green eyes and a laconic voice that makes you want to cry: "Guard me!" No wonder the cream of the directorial crop is fighting to work with him: in Malick's wake comes Ang Lee and Ride With the Devil, a Civil War drama featuring Caviezel as a bloody-minded soldier who lost his family and is out for revenge. Still, according to the actor, "This guy doesn't see himself as a bad man, he sees himself as Justice." And how does Caviezel see himself? "I'm more or less constantly searching." He also quotes Frank Capra, visits his mom, and says he feels "extremely vulnerable" every time he takes on a new role. Too good to be true? One thing's for sure: He works real celluloid miracles.</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="603" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 2339 WIDTH="17"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="2339" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="17" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="579"><div>  <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B> </b></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="049ed810.gif" border=0 width="237" height="385" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B> Jim Caviezel walking 'Thin Red Line' to fame </b></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >Web posted on:  Thursday, December 24, 1998 11:21:38 AM EST</FONT> <I>From Correspondent Ron Tank</I> LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- There's a thin line between imagination and reality, between good and evil, between peace and war in Terrence Malick's new World War II drama.  "The Thin Red Line" follows one company of men on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal in 1942. The second WWII drama this year (Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" was the first), it's based on the autobiographical novel by James Jones, who also wrote "From Here To Eternity." But the movie is as much the creation of its renowned director as it is Jones'.  "There's a little bit of awe you have in Terry, and so it makes you deeply committed to him and the process," says Nick Nolte, who plays Lt. Col. Gordon Tall, the leader of Company "C."  Malick earned his reputation with just two films in the '70s -- "Badlands," with then-unknowns Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, and "Days of Heaven" with the not-yet-famous Richard Gere.  Twenty years later, he's giving a chance to another unknown, Jim Caviezel. The young actor says he's unsure if he's prepared for stardom.  "I don't know if you could ever prepare for that," says Caviezel. "Nick Nolte told me one time, fame is like a red balloon. It just blows up, gets bigger and bigger. It's just full of hot air."  Meanwhile, recognizable faces like John Travolta, George Clooney, Woody Harrelson, John Cusack and Sean Penn all have small parts in the movie.  "I'm probably pretty much cut all the way out of that, but I don't mind," says Harrelson. "I don't mind, I just did a little part."  It's the faces we don't know that tell the main story -- a story not often heard.  "I've had family in the war (who) would never tell me about the accounts, what it's like, what it felt like," says Caviezel. "These fellas finally said, Well you're gonna make a movie about this war, we're gonna tell you what we went through."  Now "The Thin Red Line" tells us all when it opens on December 25. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Caviezel's 'Thin Red Line' Big Fat Score</b> </div> <div>  </div> <div> In ``The Thin Red Line,'' Terrence Malick's just-opened World War II epic, Jim Caviezel plays Witt, a headstrong G.I. who's pretty much the central figure in this arty ensemble piece (with a cast that includes Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Ben Chaplin, Adrien Brody, Woody Harrelson and John Cusack) about the battle of Guadalcanal. </div> <div> Caviezel, 30, doesn't just play Witt, a plain-spoken Kentucky rube with an underlying rebel streak; he seems in many respects to almost be Witt. This had to figure in Malick's decision to hire him, at least in part. </div> <div> A native of rural Washington, Caviezel (pronounced Kuh-vee-zuhl) speaks slowly and deliberately with a soft, gentle drawl. His basic attitudes have a rural bent. Beneath his exceedingly polite and gracious manner lurks, he admits, a hot temper. (It once got him kicked off a basketball team for mouthing off to a coach.) </div> <div> But one feels a sense of relief in Caviezel more than anything else. </div> <div> Before landing the role roughly 15 months ago, Caviezel was having trouble finding work and had considered throwing in the towel. He says he told Malick at one point, ``I don't know if I can keep doing this.'' </div> <div> Playing Witt was a physically grueling experience. It took up more than five months of his life, shooting in Queensland, Australia, and then Guadalcanal, running around sweating in Army fatigues. But, the actor says, ``It was better than wonderin' if I'd ever work again ... it couldn't have been any more terrible than what I was going through. </div> <div> ``I wanna have kids,'' he says, ``and I want a life where I can pay for their college and a home. It was getting so it wasn't worth it putting my family through livin' from one job to the next.'' </div> <div> Born into a family of five, Caviezel got the acting bug in his teens after getting good at impersonations. (Asked to mimic someone famous, Caviezel goes into a tone-perfect imitation of Chris Walken, croaking, ``You crazy bastard ...''). </div> <div> Seven years ago, at 23, Caviezel landed his first acting part -- a small one -- in ``Diggstown'' (1992), a boxing film. In 1993 he was admitted to the Performing Arts School at Juilliard but also got a part as one of Kevin Costner's kid brothers in Lawrence Kasdan's ``Wyatt Earp'' (1994). Forced to choose between one or the other, he took the role. </div> <div> The movie, a dud, didn't help his career much, but it did get Malick's attention, Caviezel says. ``If I'd gone to Juilliard,'' he explains, ``I never would've gotten `The Thin Red Line.' '' The Malick audition process took a long time, he says, and mostly involved sharing lunches and dinners with the director in which they rarely discussed the film. </div> <div> ``He just took his time, getting to know me and building up a trust,'' Caviezel recalls. ``He'd ask me about bailing hay ... he wanted to see if I knew the difference between a square bale and a round bale, and the difference between alfalfa and just regular grass.'' </div> <div> When Malick finally offered him the part, Caviezel assured him that he had made the right choice and wouldn't be disappointed. Malick, he says, ``could have gone with a lot of other guys with far, far more credentials ... but he had the courage to go with me. He stuck by his guns and put his reputation on the line for me.'' </div> <div> Caviezel closely resembles the late Montgomery Clift, whose performance as Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt in ``From Here to Eternity'' (1953) is closely linked to his own. </div> <div> Both ``Eternity'' and ``The Thin Red Line,'' for one, are based on novels by James Jones. Although Prewitt died at the end of ``Eternity,'' Jones resurrected Prewitt as Witt -- i.e., Prewitt minus the ``Pre'' -- when he wrote ``The Thin Red Line,'' a sequel to ``Eternity'' that featured some of the same characters. </div> <div> Nonetheless, according to Caviezel, Malick ``never talked about Clift's performance at all. I'd seen `From Here to Eternity' before but not during filming. I didn't want to pick up on any gestures of Montgomery Clift's. I didn't want to touch that.'' </div> <div> Next up for the actor is an Ang Lee drama, ``Ride With the Devil,'' in which he plays ``the leader of a group of Civil War-era bushwackers'' who fight Union troops. ``It's about guerrilla warfare,'' he says. ``We're playing some pretty mean-spirited fellows.'' Talk about performing. </div> <div> One of the few problems Caviezel currently has is one with magazine editors: His last name doesn't sound like anything. (In the current issue of Vanity Fair, a one-page profile of Caviezel is titled ``Pop Goes Caviezel.'') Other than that, things are looking sky-high for him. However ``The Thin Red Line'' does with the critics, Caviezel's performance will do better. </div> <div> And that seems just. </div> <div> by Jeffrey Wells, L.A. Times Syndicate</div> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>