People said it felt spiritually charged — like there was pressure in the air that didn’t come from the weather.
And then the injuries began.
It happened during one of the film’s most iconic moments: Caviezel carrying the cross.
Not a foam prop.
A heavy, real cross.
The kind of weight that bites into your bones and pulls your body forward no matter how strong you think you are.
The cameras were rolling. Gibson wanted realism. He wanted the pain to look real.
What he got was pain that was real.
Caviezel fell.
Hard.
And in one brutal second, his shoulder popped out of place.
People who witnessed it say the cry he let out wasn’t acting. It wasn’t performance.
It was the kind of sound your body makes when it realizes something has broken.
Someone off-camera shouted, “Cut! Cut!”
But Gibson’s face, one assistant later claimed, went pale.
Caviezel was on the ground, grimacing, teeth clenched, trying to breathe through it.
“You dislocated it,” the medic said.
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