environment | December 30, 2025

Who did Christo Jivkov play in Passion of the Christ ? Cause of death explored as actor dies aged 48

Notable Bulgarian entertainer Christo Jivkov died on Walk 31 after a long battle with disease. He was 48. He was referred to for his appearance as St. John in the 2004 scriptural show film, The Energy of the Christ.

Italian entertainer Maria Grazia Cucinotta took to Facebook to declare the news. She shared an image of Jivkov and composed:

Another entertainer and TV moderator, Eliana Miglio, likewise honored Jivkov by posting a still from one of his tasks and composing:

“Christo Jivkov. This wonderful entertainer with whom I worked in an Italian-Romanian film The best arrangement, E mai bine asa by Luca Mazzieri has been missed youthful.”
Further insights regarding Christo’s disease are yet to be uncovered, and his relatives are yet to give an assertion on his demise.

Born on February 18, 1975, Christo Jivkov sought after graduation from the Bulgarian Film and Theater Foundation, following which he made his presentation with The Calling of Arms in 2001.

Jivkov in the end earned respect for his exhibition as St. John in The Enthusiasm of the Christ, which was delivered in 2004. Coordinated by Mel Gibson, the film zeroed in on the last 12 hours before Jesus Christ’s demise, and regardless of being a hit in the cinema world, the film got a blended reaction, with acclaim for the exhibitions however analysis towards the realistic content.

A continuation of the film was affirmed to be being developed for quite a while, and Gibson uncovered in 2016 that the spin-off was booked to deliver soon. While addressing Minister Greg Laurie at the SoCal Reap Campaign in California, Jivkov uncovered that Randall Wallace was recruited to pen the screenplay and referenced:
“Obviously, that is a tremendous endeavor, and you know, it’s not the Enthusiasm 2. It’s known as The Restoration, obviously, that is an exceptionally big subject and it should be taken a gander at on the grounds that we would rather not do a basic delivering of it – you know, read what occurred.”
Talking about his advantage in dealing with a spin-off of The Enthusiasm of the Christ, Wallace referenced to The Hollywood Journalist that he generally needed to recount the story and that there are a ton of stories left to tell.

Christo was accounted for to be a piece of the spin-off, however further subtleties on the situation with the continuation are yet to be unveiled.