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 ...
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 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 ...