Actor Jim Caviezel said he told Jesus "get somebody else" before what Fox News describes as a heartbreaking response convinced him to accept a role in The Passion of the Christ, according to a Fox News report.
Fox News described the account as an encounter with Jesus that occurred before Caviezel agreed to star in the film. The report's summary frames the episode as the reason he accepted the part and does not describe any other factor in his decision. The summary does not indicate how long before the decision the exchange occurred, and it provides no timeline of Caviezel's involvement with the film.
The summary of the Fox News report does not say what the response was, when the encounter took place, or where it happened. It also does not say whether Caviezel described the exchange in further detail, and it does not identify an author for the piece.
The Fox News summary includes no statements from the film's producers or other participants. Because the report is known here only through its summary, no quotation beyond the one above is attributed to Caviezel in this story.
Fox News published the report on November 11, 2026. The summary describes the piece as a single account of one exchange, and the material used for this story offers no further details beyond what the summary provides.
The Fox News headline and summary present the account as Caviezel's own description of his decision, and they state no further facts about the encounter or the film's production.