When Joaquin Phoenix took on the role of Jesus in the new film 'Mary Magdalene,' he did many of the expected things: Grew long hair, adopted an intense and otherworldly stare, even meditated on a mountaintop. But there was one thing he would not do.
When Joaquin Phoenix took on the role of Jesus in the new film"Mary Magdalene," he did many of the expected things: Grew long hair, adopted an intense and otherworldly stare, even meditated on a mountaintop.
But there was one thing he would not do. Near the beginning of"Mary Magdalene," which opened Friday in the United States, the script called for Jesus to heal a blind woman by rubbing mud in her eyes, an echo of John's Gospel. "I knew about that scene from the Bible, but I guess I had never really considered it," Phoenix told CNN in a recent interview. "When I got there, I thought: I'm not going to rub dirt in her eyes.
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