{"id":7929,"date":"2004-02-15T13:08:59","date_gmt":"2004-02-15T13:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/gibson_interview.html"},"modified":"2004-02-15T13:08:59","modified_gmt":"2004-02-15T13:08:59","slug":"gibson_interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/gibson_interview.html","title":{"rendered":"Gibson Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-et-gibson15feb15,1,2135377.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">One of several we&#8217;ll see over the next few days, this one with the LATimes<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGiven that early audience tracking forecasts suggest that &#8220;The Passion of the Christ,&#8221; \u2014 even with its protracted torture sequences, R-rating and dialogue in Aramaic and Latin \u2014 could earn grosses of $30 million in its opening days, it&#8217;s strange to find Gibson so beleaguered. Yet the 48-year-old actor barely speaks above a whisper, as if trying to keep a tight fist around his emotions.<\/p>\n<p>For Gibson, to focus solely on the background of the story is to ignore the point of the movie, which in his eyes is &#8220;the sacrifice made by the savior of all mankind. It&#8217;s pre-ordained\u2026. Now, the message he brought was one of peace and love and tolerance \u2014 all the messages of tolerance that I put in there, particularly toward the end\u2026. I think it&#8217;s pretty hard to misunderstand.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of several we&#8217;ll see over the next few days, this one with the LATimes Given that early audience tracking forecasts suggest that &#8220;The Passion of the Christ,&#8221; \u2014 even with its protracted torture sequences, R-rating and dialogue in Aramaic and Latin \u2014 could earn grosses of $30 million in its opening days, it&#8217;s strange&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gibson Interview - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/gibson_interview.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gibson Interview - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of several we&#8217;ll see over the next few days, this one with the LATimes Given that early audience tracking forecasts suggest that &#8220;The Passion of the Christ,&#8221; 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