Jim Caviezel: Hollywood Is A 'Cesspool Piece Of Crap'
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy, Newsstand
We all love to cry and gripe in our cocoa. This is definitely the case when it comes to our begrudgingly beloved Hollywood. We continue to patronize Hollywood movies, and people keep working on them, even though no one seems to be happy with how things are going. While doing press for his new movie, Deja Vu, actor Jim Caviezel became the latest to jump on the Hollywood-bashing bandwagon. When asked to characterize his career so far, the actor couldn't help but slide a dig at the system: "I spent 10 years living in Hollywood -- which is just a cesspool piece of crap -- and then I got The Thin Red Line."
It's a cesspool that's been pretty good to him, finding him roles in films like The Rock, Frequency and Angel Eyes. (Perhaps he was just too tarnished by his participation in G.I. Jane to be able to look at the land of stars in anything but a disrepectful manner?) Still, the words are a bit surprising from a man whose career was made in Hollywood. In addition to the Hollywood films Caviezel has made, he was also set to take on Cyclops in X-Men, which he had to back out of, and publicly lobbied to take over the blue tights from Christopher Reeve. Just like Seagal keeps making movies he thinks are crap, Caviezel will probably continue to cling to his spot in the cesspool.
Is Taylor Lautner Our Next Superhero?
100 Greatest Films Beyond the Canon
'Entourage' Movie in the Works?
Spielberg Backs Out of 'Harvey'
Discuss: Should Gay Actors Stay in the Closet?
_thumbnail.jpg)
_thumbnail.jpg)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1-21-2007 @ 6:35PM
I Hate Movies said...
Hollywood may be crap, but it sure does pay the bills for actors like Caviezel, who continue to wade through the cesspool.
Reply
1-21-2007 @ 7:40PM
Elrond Hobbert said...
Not quite proper English though. He should say- "just a piece of cesspool crap", "just a piece of crap in a cesspool", "just a cesspool of crap", "just a crappy cesspool" or "I suck." Whatever he prefers...
Reply
1-21-2007 @ 8:00PM
ukeuke said...
Remember, Caviezal was Jesus in Mel Gibson's "The Passion" He's a saviour, of sorts!!
Reply
1-21-2007 @ 9:27PM
tom_squick said...
Yeah baby!
Reply
1-21-2007 @ 10:03PM
Jack Burton Says said...
Jim is wrong. The correct description is, "Hollywood is a morally bankrupt, self-righteous, and intellectually challenged cesspool of mediocrity."
Reply
1-22-2007 @ 5:26AM
I'm no Mel Gibson thank God. said...
Hey Jimbo, stop peeing in your same stream you drink out of.
Reply
1-22-2007 @ 1:06AM
RLP said...
Oh, so you think his career is crap, so he has no right to make those statements. Let him say whatever he wants. Its his life. Maybe he thinks Hollywood is a cesspool. Who cares.
Why is this a post. Who cares about some random actor's opinion. His opinion matters to me as much as your opinion about him.
I think Hollywood exists because millions of Americans support it. Studios who want to make money pump out films that will sell the best. Ask the millions of ticket buyers to get better taste or save their money and stay home.
Reply
1-22-2007 @ 1:14AM
GhaleonQ said...
He utterly butchered his insult, which is really not advisable.
Reply
1-22-2007 @ 12:45PM
stormko said...
How do you know that he wasn't referring to living in Hollywood--the city--as oppossed to working for the studios?
Reply