![]() So from that moment on, I played it objectively without any recourse to giving him any particular idiosyncrasies, quite deliberately avoiding the normal human things. With this story, the most important element that this character has to be is extraordinary. You go as an actor and work subjectively but the moment you start to try and play him as a real person you lose the divinity completely. Franco Zeffirelli and I originally thought that we could combine the divine Christ with the human one and that we would be able to show the human side of him, but we discovered that it was just not possible. Originally, forty years ago, I was avoiding Jesus completely. This was one of the reasons I wanted to do the series. "It's been very different returning to the story of Jesus because I was returning in a completely different way.
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