but none were so controversial as The Last Temptation of Christ, Martin Scorsese's 1988 religious epic. Believe it or not, Dafoe was a relatively small-time actor before being cast as Jesus Christ ...
Dafoe opened up to Louis Theroux on The Louis Theroux Podcast revealing that he was removed from the cast of a movie ... on to explain that The Last Temptation of Christ, as a movie adaptation ...
From an exchange of letters last summer between Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, and Pat Robertson, chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network.
Willem Dafoe says he was ‘uncast’ from movie due to hugely controversial past role - ‘It’s just strange, in a world of slasher films and porn, that people got so upset about this,’ he said ...
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 ...