{"id":43077,"date":"2016-03-25T17:49:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T00:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=43077"},"modified":"2016-05-22T18:10:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T01:10:37","slug":"watch-rodrigo-santoro-talks-about-playing-jesus-in-a-new-ben-hur-featurette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2016\/03\/watch-rodrigo-santoro-talks-about-playing-jesus-in-a-new-ben-hur-featurette.html","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Rodrigo Santoro talks about playing Jesus in a new Ben-Hur<\/i> featurette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The actors who played Jesus in the 1925 and 1959 versions of Ben-Hur<\/a><\/i> not only had to keep their faces hidden from the cameras, they weren\u2019t even acknowledged in the movies\u2019 credits. But the new version of Ben-Hur<\/i> is putting Jesus front-and-centre \u2014 and the actor who plays him now has a 42-second featurette all to himself.<\/p>\n

Here is the featurette, which focuses on actor Rodrigo Santoro:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J6eoABk9DwE<\/p>\n

Note how the featurette seems to show Jesus talking to Judah Ben-Hur long before the point where they first meet in the novel and in the earlier films<\/a> (given the length of Judah\u2019s hair, it seems that he has not<\/i> been arrested and sent to the galleys yet).<\/p>\n

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Dialogue-wise, in this scene Jesus says, \u201cGod is love,\u201d and Judah replies, \u201cAnd where will your love be when the Romans turn their anger on the rest of us?\u201d<\/p>\n

Incidentally, Santoro met the Pope<\/a> last year while the film was being shot in Italy.<\/p>\n

May 22 update:<\/b> I just noticed that the original video has been taken offline. Here is another version (with Portuguese subtitles), which runs only 32 seconds:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D3_HKVWlpR4<\/p>\n

Check out earlier trailers and other videos here:<\/p>\n