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 ...

Willem Dafoe in "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988). Universal Pictures Entire shelves of research are dedicated to the human side of Jesus Christ, but when Willem Dafoe portrayed him as a flawed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" opened on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2004, immediately sparking the biggest religious-based movie controversy since ... well, perhaps since Martin Scorsese's "The ...

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 ...

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 ...