Person of Interest and The Passion of the Christ star Jim Caviezel gave a checked-in with a rally of COVID-deniers and QAnon lunatics in Tulsa this weekend.
The “Health and Freedom Conference,” at which lawyer-provocateur Lin Wood led the assembled to furious applause by miming a Q in the air, was graced by Caviezel, one of the few proud conservative voices out there in Hollyweird.
Caviezel checked in to hype his forthcoming film Sound of Freedom, in which he portrays Timothy Ballard, a former special agent for the Department of Homeland Security whose group, The Nazarene Fund, works to “liberate the captive, to free the enslaved, and to rescue, rebuild and restore the lives of Christians and other persecuted religious and ethnic minorities wherever and whenever they are in need.” In doing so he alluded to a fringe conspiracy theory that suggests that people are harvesting adrenaline from children, an act called “adrenochroming.”
He also threw in a reminder that he starred in The Count of Monte Cristo.
The Tulsa rally will conclude with a public mask-burning. COVID-19 has killed over 3 million people worldwide, and mask-wearing is a proven measure for slowing the spread of the virus.
There have been consistent rumors that Mel Gibson and screenwriter Randall Wallace intend to make a second The Passion of the Christ film, devoted to the resurrection. Caviezel claimed as recently as last September that it was happening.
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