![]() ![]() “He wanted to make the most Semitic Mary and the most Semitic Jesus there has ever been. On set, Gibson often sounded out Maia Morgenstern, a Jewish actress from Romania who plays the mother Mary, to make sure the film’s action and trappings fit Judaic traditions, Caviezel said. ![]() “If anti-Semitism was in any way at play here, I would have said, ‘I’m not doing this, Mel. My sins, your sins, all of our sins put him up on that cross. We’re all culpable in the death of Christ. “That crowd standing before Pilate does not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ any more than the heinous acts of Mussolini condemn all Italians or the vicious acts of Stalin condemn all Russians. Mel says this quite frequently, that this film does not play the blame game,” Caviezel said. “There’s no broad brush applied here to any particular group.
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