Actor who portrayed the chief scourger in TPOTC to mount a one-man play about it.

Mr. D’Ambrosi — burly, bald and blue-eyed — has had enough. “Everyone shut up; it’s my time to speak,” he said in heavily accented English while sitting in a downtown restaurant. “I am a father of two kids. I am not a bad man.”

Mr. D’Ambrosi, a practicing Roman Catholic, is to mount a one-man play about the bizarre experience of whipping Jesus (Jim Caviezel) for 20 days of filming. “La Passion del Flagellatore” is to begin on Dec. 6 at La MaMa E.T.C. in the East Village.

“I’d go to Mass every day and say I’d be a good person,” he said. “Then I’d go and kill Christ.” In the production he will show videos of Mr. Gibson’s coaching him as well as clips of his own meeting with the pope, scheduled for next week.