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Instead, Caviezel based his portrayal directly on the screenplay and on Dumas' tome. </div> <div> <I>The Count of Monte Cristo </I>tells the story of Edmond, a guileless young sailor who is framed by his jealous friend, Fernand (Guy Pearce), and sentenced to an island prison. Not only does he lose his freedom during his 13-year exile, he loses the love of his life, the beautiful Mercedes (Dagmara Dominczyk), to Fernand. After years of torture and isolation in prison, Edmond meets a fellow prisoner (Richard Harris) who tells him about a hidden treasure on a remote island called Monte Cristo. Edmond eventually escapes, finds the treasure and transforms himself into the mysterious, wealthy Count of Monte Cristo, whose sole purpose is to systematically destroy those who manipulated and enslaved him. </div> <div> Caviezel immersed himself in researching the post-Napoleonic era in which the story is set. He also sought information about the prolific Dumas, who wrote such classics as <I>The Three Musketeers </I>and <I>The Man in the Iron Mask</I>. Caviezel discovered Dumas' affinity for Napoleon, who started out an outsider, and says he recognized a vengeful side in Napoleon and Dumas. </div> <div> "I know a little something about those feelings," says the actor, who recalls being something of an outsider himself as a youngster. </div> <div> To get into the mind-set of a man locked in solitude for years, he read Viktor Frankl's <I>Man's Search for Meaning</I>, a memoir of Frankl's confinement at Auschwitz. If that seems like research overkill, well, that's just the way Caviezel operates. "I have a very strong work ethic," he says. </div> <div> His co-stars describe him as so serious and intense that at one point during production, Harris suggested he lighten up and have a pint of Guinness. </div> <div> "Jim's very methodical," says newcomer Dominczyk, who plays Edmond's beloved. "He's like an engineer almost." </div> <div> Caviezel attributes his intense focus to his upbringing and athletic training. A onetime pro basketball hopeful, Caviezel was sidelined with a foot injury in his early 20s and subsequently took up acting, discovering that he had a gift for mimicry. </div> <div> "I started with simple stuff, like the <I>Saturday Night Live </I>characters," he reveals. "I loved Eddie Murphy, but it's hard to mimic someone like Dana Carvey doing President Bush." </div> <div> Caviezel then gives a dead-on impression of Carvey's Bush catchphrase, "Not gonna do it." </div> <div> Caviezel was accepted into the Juilliard School for the Performing Arts in New York but instead took a small part in Kevin Costner's 1994 <I>Wyatt Earp</I>. He waited tables in Los Angeles for a while and went to numerous auditions. He used to make faces at other drivers on the freeway on his way to auditions as a way to release his inhibitions. </div> <div> Then director Terrence Malick cast him in <I>The Thin Red Line</I>, a World War II drama that launched Caviezel's career. In it, he played a soldier on the front lines of the battle of Guadalcanal. Caviezel remains fond of the 1998 war drama, which was hailed by critics but overshadowed at the box office by Steven Spielberg's <I>Saving Private Ryan.</I> </div> <div> "I hadn't seen (<I>Thin Red Line</I>) in two years and happened to be watching it over Christmas," says the actor, who lives with his wife, Kerri, in a suburb outside Los Angeles. "It was like I'd never seen it before. I wept. I don't know why. I guess because I miss the guys and that time in my life." </div> <div> His performance in <I>The Thin Red Line </I>won Caviezel his role in last year's romantic drama <I>Angel Eyes</I>. Singer/actress Jennifer Lopez spotted him in the film and insisted that he play the part of emotionally wounded Catch Lambert. </div> <div> With the PG-13-rated <I>Count of Monte Cristo, </I>Caviezel has achieved leading-man status, although he acknowledges he was the filmmakers' second choice. </div> <div> "I got this one because Jude Law was unavailable," he says matter-of-factly. "I was next in line." </div> <div> Taking the lead role in a $40 million production was a little daunting, says Caviezel, who was concerned about handling a sword and learning to fence. He and Pearce trained intensively for a month. Director Kevin Reynolds wanted the sword fights to appear authentic, in the style of Olympic fencing competitions, and he acknowledges that <I>Monte Cristo</I>'s<I> </I>sword-fighting scenes were influenced by those in Ridley Scott's 1977 period action film <I>The Duellists</I>. </div> <div> Much has been made in the press of Caviezel's aversion to graphic love scenes. In <I>Angel Eyes, </I>he insisted that he and Lopez keep their clothes on. Similarly, for <I>The Count of Monte Cristo</I>,<I> </I>he insisted that Dominczyk cover her breasts during a love scene. </div> <div> "I'm not against love scenes," insists the actor, a devout Catholic who seems only slightly perturbed by the oft-asked question. "Number one, I'm married; that's the reality. . . . I just think that a lot of films have gratuitous violence and gratuitous sex, which is simply done for shock value." </div> <div> He points to his cinematic heroes Clark Gable, Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart, who could convey romanticism without removing their pants. </div> <div> "Class is what I'm after," Caviezel says, acknowledging that he has passed on a few juicy roles because he found the scripts unnecessarily violent or sexual. </div> <div> In an industry where few actors openly discuss their religious beliefs (or lack thereof), Caviezel proudly wears a gold crucifix around his neck. </div> <div> "People say to me, 'You're crazy if you think you're going to heaven when you die.' I say, 'If you're right and I'm wrong, then OK. But if I'm right and you're wrong, then you've got a lot to lose.' " </div> <div> Caviezel, 33, grew up in rural Mount Vernon, Wash., in a tightly knit household with three sisters and a brother. His father, an imposing man of Swiss-German extraction, remains a continuing source of inspiration to Caviezel. </div> <div> "The word 'hypothetical' doesn't exist in his vocabulary," the actor jokes. "They're clockmakers, so everything's always accurate." </div> <div> Up next for the actor is the courtroom drama <I>High Crimes</I>, opposite Ashley Judd. He also stars in <I>Madison, </I>a long-shelved drama about a hydroplane regatta, which recently picked up a distributor. </div> <div> Asked whether he ever took Harris' suggestion to lighten up, he gamely responds, "One time." </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>