Passion of the christ: jesus star’s injury that made movie 'beautiful'

Today is Good Friday when Christians around the world celebrate Jesus Christ’s death on the Cross. The bloody scenes from The Bible’s gospel accounts were adapted in 2004 for Mel Gibson’s

biblical epic, The Passion of the Christ. Now in a new interview, Jesus star Jim Caviezel has opened up on a painful set injury that ended up captured in the final cut of the movie – one

that he feels as a devout Christian made the movie "most beautiful". Speaking with Fox News, the Jesus actor revealed the mistake happened while shooting carrying the cross through

Jerusalem. But when he fell he actually injured himself in real life and it was captured in the movie’s final cut. Caviezel revealed: “As I went down, the cross... it actually struck my

head and buried my head in the sand and I bit through my tongue. “Now, in the tape, you'll see streams of blood coming down from my lip. That's actually my own blood.” READ MORE: 

PASSION OF THE CHRIST 2: WHEN IS JESUS RESURRECTION SEQUEL RELEASED? The Jesus star had also hurt his shoulder but still managed to act in the scene with Virgin Mary actress Maia

Morgenstern. Caviezel explained how at the time his shoulder was out and he was trying all he could to get his arm over the wooden cross. He added: “And it looks like it's the most

extraordinary take because it looks like I'm cherishing our cross, which is our faith, and hugging it but in the most beautiful way. “It wasn't beautiful to me because it hurt like

hell," he laughed, "My AC joint had been torn.” For a number of years, The Passion of the Christ was the UK’s highest-grossing foreign-language movie. After all, the Mel Gibson

movie is shot entirely in Hebrew, Latin and reconstructed Aramaic. At its 2004 release, the biblical epic took £11.1 million at the UK box office, but that’s now been topped by Bong Joon

Ho’s Parasite. The Oscar winner was the first foreign-language movie to ever win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Meanwhile, Gibson and Caviezel have Passion of the Christ 2 in the works.

The movie will focus on Jesus’ resurrection, which was briefly teased at the conclusion of the first movie. In 2018, Caviezel teased to USA Today: “There are things that I cannot say that

will shock the audience. It's great. Stay tuned.” _THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST: RESURRECTION’S RELEASE DATE IS TBC._