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...look for levity in The Passion, an account of the day Jesus was crucified starring James Caviezel (The Count of Monte Cristo) as Christ and Italian sex diva Monica Bellucci (soon to be seen in Matrix 2 and 3) as Mary Magdalene. Gibson is life-after-deathly serious about the project, which his production company is financing on an estimated budget of $25 million. (He doesn't yet have a distributor.) "This has been germinating inside me for 10 years," he says. "I have a deep need to tell this story. It's part of your upbringing...
...worst offender in this regard, often literally spitting out his lines; since the Duke has several long and emotional scenes, the results range from something resembling a temper tantrum to outright melodrama. A similar lack of control hampers the performances of Marianna Owen as Isabella and John Bellucci as Claudio...
FOUR YEARS and seven productions later. Harvard audiences can bear out Bellucci's words: the sight of him with a clean face and street-clothes is more startling than any make-up and costume. In elevators and dining halls, he is greeted by stares of hazy recognition and far-off voices muttering, "Aren't you...?" The sentence never ends with "John Bellucci"--it ends with names like Vershinin (from a Peter Sellars production of "The Three Sisters"), Helena Basket (the lead in the 1980 Hasty Pudding show, "A Little Knife Music"), and most recently, Mac the Knife, from last month...
...When Bellucci speaks of acting, he treats it with the reverence and ardor of a missionary. "The expectations and hopes an audience has are sort of the hopes of the whole human race," he says. "You just can't let them down. That's the great thing about playing a lead role--you're so much involved in the fate of the show that you just push and push and before you know it, you're in this crazy realm where you're really acting. Acting is in that empyrean when it's that good. It's totally religious...
...QUESTION most people have about Bellucci's future is not what will he do with himself but when will tickets go on sale. "I don't know," he says. "I think you have to be suspicious about people who really want to be actors. I demean acting too much to be a really great actor. An actor has to love it so much, and I just can't affirm it. I wish I could do it--it would make life so much easier. But I don't know what I should do in life...