Mel Gibson was in no way tempted to star as Jesus in Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ,” despite the auteur wanting to cast him. Gibson said during the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast ...

Willem Dafoe is reflecting on his controversial performance as Jesus in 1988's The Last Temptation of Christ. The 70-year-old actor recalled starring in the Martin Scorsese epic during a master class ...

The trials Martin Scorsese went through to make his 1980s passion project "The Last Temptation of Christ" are well publicized, but a new detail has been brought to light that proves how vital ...

Willem Dafoe opened up about the consequences of his most controversial performance while promoting Nosferatu on The Louis Theroux Podcast — namely, the enigmatic Dafoe found himself dropped from a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This is from the official trailer for “The Last Temptation of Christ” distributed by Universal ...

How an American Character Actor Fell in Love with Rome — and Never Left From hanging out with Andy Warhol in the 70s to bonding with Marcello Mastroianni in Rome and impressing Martin Scorsese on the ...

Willem Dafoe, who is at the Sarajevo Film Festival to receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo award as well as support Miguel Ángel Jiménez’s “The Birthday Party,” gave an in-depth career masterclass ...

"It was a drag, because it was a movie that I was very invested in," the actor said Willem Dafoe reflected on his controversial portrayal of Jesus in 1988's The Last Temptation of Christ during the ...

Willem Dafoe reflected on his controversial portrayal of Jesus in 1988's The Last Temptation of Christ during the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival "Even without seeing the movie, there were huge protests ...

The actor, who played Jesus in the movie, recalled the controversy snowballing into "an antisemitic thing." Dafoe said that the film was "too scandalous for people" who he doesn't believe actually ...