According to director Gerard Johnstone, the upcoming horror film is actually scarier despite being toned down in reshoots in order to acquire a tamer rating.
dramatic. woven through it is the beauty of the love story of god s love for humanity, that he sends jesus for us. and the actor who played jesus i thought he did a really obviously that s a hard role to play. i thought he captured what i would in my mind think jesus would be like. confident, strong, loving. he seemed to have it all put together. we wanted an actor that could portray the lion and the lamb. and i think that the compassion and tenderness that he brings to it on the one hand and then the strength and the charisma, it was a beautiful job. this went back to the passion of the christ, very graphic, the crucifixion scene obviously the lashes being given out prior to that, carrying the cross, it s hard to watch. yeah, it is. we worked hard to get a pg-13
it is we worked hard to get a pg-13 rating. but it still is really hard to watch. especially because unlike the passion which i dealt with three days in jesus life, so when he is arrested you pretty much have the backstory. in this time, by the time he is arrested you have fallen so love with the humanity of jesus. it s god on earth but you ve fallen in love with humanity. when he is arrested, people who have known the scriptures their whole life are watching the movie saying in one way i wish the story would change. of course, they don t really wish it. it also shows jesus knowing that peter would betray him as peter said he wouldn t, and then he told him, or seeing in his own mind the vision of the crucifixion that was upcoming. that was something he obviously knew, father take this cross from me. et cetera. one thing that also struck me, and i want to get my audience s take on this in the next segment is how events today are similar to back then. you have got corruption pol