WASHINGTON, D.C. — “Sound of Freedom” star Jim Caviezel believes that his new film will empower people to fight human-trafficking worldwide, and perhaps even bring forward some courageous whistleblowers afraid to speak up until now.
Caviezel and his co-actor Eduardo Verástegui, rumored to be pondering a presidential bid in Mexico, shared all this and more in a June interview with The Daily Signal at The Heritage Foundation studios in Washington, D.C.
Both actors, who are Catholic and vocally pro-life, stressed the connections between sex trafficking and pornography, open borders, and abortion. They hope that the movie will shake viewers from apathy into action to aid victims of human trafficking across the globe.
“This movie has a power because it goes into your heart and it asks you a question,” Caviezel said. “When this is all done, what are you gonna do? You’re going to have to meet God at some point. And I believe it’s going to move a lot of whistleblowers to come forward.”
“That will bring an end to this whole thing,” he predicted.
“Sound of Freedom” is based on the true story of former United States government agent Tim Ballard, founder of Operation Underground Railroad, a nonprofit that fights against child sex slavery. Ballard, who worked for the CIA and then the Department of Homeland Security, has worked undercover in many different countries to fight infiltrate and combat child trafficking organizations.
According to Angel Studios, which has the licensing rights to “Sound of Freedom,” the purpose of the film is to “put a spotlight on the global movement to end the trafficking of minors by successfully distributing this film to a worldwide audience.”
The film is crowd funded: “only with the help of the people” will it be a successful project, Verástegui said.
“We are against Goliath,” Verástegui told The Daily Signal. “We are like the little David against Goliath.”
The film will be in theaters on July 4, Independence Day. Both Verástegui and Caviezel stressed the importance of this date: as Americans celebrate freedom, many children are still enslaved by human traffickers.
The ticket sales are “growing and growing and growing,” Verástegui said.
“We’re outselling ‘Indiana Jones’ right now by 25%,” Caviezel added. “It’s extraordinary. We are starting to add screens. But its really important that people go buy the tickets now.”
“July 4: can we give those kids back their freedom on our Independence Day? We have a darkness around us right now. We could lose our Republic. Are we going to let our children go?” the actor asked.
Caviezel portrayed Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson’s film, “The Passion of the Christ,” one of the most successful independent movies in history (grossing $612 million worldwide with a production budget of $30 million, according to the Catholic News Agency), and the first R-rated movie in North America to gross such a high figure.
He has said that “Sound of Freedom” is the best film he has done since “The Passion of the Christ.”
“People aren’t buying the media like they used to,” he said, as he critiqued the way mainstream media misrepresents political narratives to the American public. “The stuff that happened [with] Hunter Biden’s laptop. Two years, you told us not true. OK, I believe you, you’re the media, you know. But then it’s true. Then for seven years, we learn that Donald Trump is a Russian spy, well thank you media for telling us. Durham report drops, he’s not a Russian spy…the public is going, ‘Mmmm no. You don’t have the power you used to.’
“And its the same thing with me as an actor,” he added.
Amazon video and Netflix both passed on the film, the actors shared.
“This is not for us,” Verástegui quoted the entertainment companies saying.
Why? Neither Amazon nor Netflix responded to requests for comment from The Daily Signal. Caviezel suggested that the film’s exposé of human trafficking might have something to do with it.
“We were showing it in Vegas and there were about five screenings, 1500 people that saw it. During the five screenings, each screening, there was a ton of talking that went on,” Caviezel said. “The second time it happened, third time, talking in this one particular spot. And I’m thinking, did we do something wrong?”
“One more time it happened, at the end I was asking about the movie, and I asked about that one particular part where everyone is talking, and they all cried out, ‘Epstein Island.’ And I went, oh ok. Now, I understand what we’re up against. Epstein Island isn’t the only sex island out there, and Tim Ballard takes down one in the film,” the actor added.
“There’s many people involved in this crime in every sector,” Verástegui said. “Political sector, worldwide, here, Mexico, worldwide. It’s a global problem.”
“It’s an elite problem,” Caviezel chimed in.
“Hollywood too,” added Verástegui. “I’m not saying everyone…there’s a lot of great people there who are fighting. But the guys who are at the very top…”
Asked if there are top people Hollywood involved in these crimes that the public is unaware of, Caviezel quickly responded.
“100%,” he said.
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Jim Caviezel did not kill himself.
ZFG, out.
P.S. gut them all.
I will say also neither did Chris Cornell of Soundgarden or Chester Bennington of Lincoln Park,they were working on a project abbout child abuse and child trafficking and bot suddenly decided to end it all………,right!
I can’t say you are wrong, but I will say it is quite odd that these people were not bright enough to have some form of ‘deadman’ switch.
I find it extremely doubtful that people who have the information about the level of evil in ‘the system’, would be so naive.
Anon,lawyers,they don’t want to lose estate to family,they had to 100% sure,that said that had just spoken about it and dead within 2 months of each other/early in the project.
The forces behind child trafficking are more than human. They are highly intelligent and while I credit Jim for making it and I’m sure it will show a lot of evil, it will never go into the depths of evil that is behind this.
It will show enough that the first thing Disney did when they bought FOX Studios was to cancel this film. It’s been in the can for three years.
I reserved tickets for a July 7 showing.
LGBT Galas sure as hell are not opposition to this subject, only more enablement of the entire fag scenario.
Tex,let us know if worth supporting financially or not,one of those deals I am sure can stream free but if good want em to make a few bucks,real good part 2.
I’m only going because I’m invited. But I had to pay for the tickets. A bargain though, $7.50 each in advance. Old fashioned movie theatre.
Watched Nefarious through some internet source and it was about $19. Not a subscriber to Netflix. It’s likely much cheaper. Don’t know, don’t care. The thing is we had access to Nefarious on big screen TV for 48 hours so we invited neighbors from far away as three miles and viewed it twice. Neighbors brought the popcorn and Jr. Mints. So not a real bad deal.
My movie watching basically consists of Grit with the advertisements and I rarely sit through and entire oldie but often goodie movie. “Free Range” the other night but I turned the TV off after a commercial asking for $$$ for a Ukraine food bank. All that joo whatever crap I suppose. Anyway, perhaps free stream on Sound of Freedom. .
The wise man knows, actors are paid to say things.
Very much like hookers. This is why they are worthy of the same respect.
I trust Heritage Foundation to be as Satanic as can be, so I am a bit skeptical of this.
Not seen the flick yet so I’ll wait to critique. Mentioning CIA and Trump is a concern. A lot of people talk about human trafficking when mentioning the the influx. I suppose it’s just talk.
I’ll not plug for the Heritage Foundation because most associated with that organization are wall ass kissers IMO. It’s the same types that hail Donald Trump when he says “Bible”.
It’s impossible for me to keep up with everything. Wiki what it is to some, nonetheless a quick reference and referenced. I ask anyone to dispute this:
The Heritage Foundation had a major influence on Donald Trump’s presidential transition and administration.[44][45][46] The foundation had a powerful say in the staffing of the administration, with CNN noting during the transition that “no other Washington institution has that kind of footprint in the transition.”[44] One reason for the Heritage Foundation’s disproportionate influence relative to other conservative think tanks is that other conservative think tanks had members who identified as “never-Trumpers” during the 2016 election whereas the Heritage Foundation signaled early on to Trump that it would be supportive of him.[44][45] At least 66 foundation employees and alumni were given positions in the administration.[45]
Food for thought:
WHY are these two pissant Catholics doing the POPE’S job for him? Why is Fag Francis not running POINT on this issue DAILY? In fact, I’m not seeing ANY religion rallying under the flag of Righteousness these days.
It’s ALMOST like we were in the middle of a great falling away.
Whatever could the significance of that be?
We’ve gone from “No child left behind” to “No child’s behind left alone” in the space of one generation.
Jesus wept.
So are you saying Trump will turn this around? /s
Jan 18, 2016 … “We’re going to protect Christianity. I can say that. I don’t have to be politically correct,” he said. “Two Corinthians, 3:17, that’s the whole …
I think Trump has been turning things around all his life. If you want to call that a good thing? That’s on you.
Gnome sane?
Romans Chapt. 1 (26), For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: (27) And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Sounds like what may have taken place at Mar-a-Lago for those LGBTers that stayed overnight.
That must be it. Trump wants to be the gay version of Hugh Heffner! It all makes sense now!
Could be. Funny. Some say Trump is “entertaining” anyway. I suppose.
While I’m at it, Donald must have missed the memo by one of his top religious advisors published July 2016. Where was the advisor in 2021?
11 JUL WHY GAY IS NOT OKAY