Posted by Lorrie Lynch
Although Mad Men ends its season this Sunday on AMC, its departure makes way for the miniseries event The Prisoner, a reimagining of the classic 1960s British series that airs six hours over three nights beginning Sunday, Nov. 15. The miniseries stars movie actor Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ) as Six, a man who finds himself mysteriously trapped in a place called The Village where the residents (led by the enigmatic Two, played by Ian McKellen) are known as numbers and are under constant surveillance. Our Brian Truitt talked with Caviezel way back in July for a piece in this weekend's magazine, but read below for Caviezel's thoughts on a motorcycle accident that happened just a week before the interview and how it ties into the premise of The Prisoner. Also, for more on the miniseries, download this digital comic and check out a clip from the miniseries.
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Caviezel was involved in a motorcycle wreck in July, when a man threw his 10-speed bike right in front of Caviezel’s path on a Washington state highway as he was riding his Harley-Davidson cycle at 60 miles an hour. After just missing hitting a refrigerator truck and walking away with just a scratch, he feels, “You know, it’s not my time yet.”
Caviezel finds a similarity between the modern technology in The Prisoner with the aftermath of his accident, following a brief stay at a small-town hospital. “I thought, ‘Well, shoot, no one knows. That’s good.’ And the next day, over 50 e-mails and phone calls from all over saying, ‘Jim, you’re in the news!’ ” Caviezel says. “Like The Prisoner, the surveillance is even more real than George Orwell’s 1984. Like the original [series], with the surveillance and the Cold War and whatnot, we’re all in our own prison right now. Like a good poem, people of every age will be able to take a little bit of something.”
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