{"id":27827,"date":"2015-02-12T12:49:19","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=27827"},"modified":"2015-02-12T12:49:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T20:49:19","slug":"our-first-look-at-rodrigo-santoro-as-jesus-in-ben-hur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/02\/our-first-look-at-rodrigo-santoro-as-jesus-in-ben-hur.html","title":{"rendered":"Our first look at Rodrigo Santoro as Jesus in <i>Ben-Hur<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/02\/ben-hur-dailymail14-a.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/02\/ben-hur-dailymail14-a.jpg\" alt=\"ben-hur-dailymail14-a\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27829\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Timur Bekmambetov\u2019s remake of <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/ben-hur-2016\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Ben-Hur<\/a><\/i> is now nearing the end of its second week of production, and the unofficial photos keep on coming. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/02\/whos-holding-the-bow-arrow-in-these-new-ben-hur-pics.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Last week<\/a> we had pictures of Judah Ben-Hur, his girlfriend Esther and possibly one of the rebels who ends up crucified next to Jesus. This week\u2019s batch includes our first pictures of Jesus himself, as played <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/01\/he-played-xerxes-in-300-now-hes-jesus-in-the-new-ben-hur.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">by Rodrigo Santoro<\/a>. You can check \u2019em all out at the <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-2949305\/Bearded-Rodrigo-Santoro-protects-sick-gets-character-Jesus-Christ-set-sweeping-biblical-remake-Ben-Hur.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More pictures from the Italian set of <i>Ben-Hur<\/i>, which is now in its second week of production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[411,2202,345,2731],"class_list":["post-27827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ben-hur","tag-ben-hur-2016","tag-jesus","tag-rodrigo-santoro"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Our first look at Rodrigo Santoro as Jesus in Ben-Hur<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More pictures from the Italian set of Ben-Hur, which is now in its second week of production.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/02\/our-first-look-at-rodrigo-santoro-as-jesus-in-ben-hur.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Our first look at Rodrigo Santoro as Jesus in Ben-Hur\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"More pictures from the Italian set of Ben-Hur, which is now in its second week of production.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/02\/our-first-look-at-rodrigo-santoro-as-jesus-in-ben-hur.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-02-12T20:49:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/files\/2015\/02\/ben-hur-dailymail14-a.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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