Jim Caviezel: I Lost Two Agents Over ‘Sound of Freedom’https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/jim-caviezel-lost-agents-sound-of-freedom/Jim Caviezel agreed to star in a fact-based story about child sex trafficking, exposing an ongoing crime many people don’t know about.
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The star of the summer’s indie smash “Sound of Freedom” is no stranger to bucking Hollywood wisdom. He’s an openly Christian actor in an industry that gets “freaked out” by people of faith. He starred in one of the most successful, and controversial films of the modern era with 2004’s “The Passion of the Christ.”
And he suspected that starring in a movie about child sex trafficking might come at a professional cost in Hollywood.
And, by his account, he was right.
“I want this to be so huge that they’re forced to look at this. I lost my agents over this. Yep, 17 years, 15 years. I lost my lawyer over this, and now I understand why all these actors didn’t want to do the movie because of this. Listen, you do ‘Schindler’s List’ 50 years later, you’re a hero. Try doing ‘Schindler’s List’ when the real Nazis are right there. Understand how that becomes more dangerous? I don’t understand why people are willing to let children be hurt, but in this time, Hollywood says, ‘No, no, let’s kick that down fifty years from now and then [see where we’re at]. That’s crap.”
Hollyweird is learning the meaning of the old proverb about how people escape between the fingers of those squeezing them. There are enough content producers outside of Hollyweird - geographically and business-wise - that Caviezel and others bucking Hollyweird will get revenge by simply doing well.
