“Daunting” is one word Ewan McGregor used about stepping into the role of Jesus in the new film “Last Days in the Desert.”
“Freaked out” is another way he described his feelings about the task, McGregor said.
That’s why the Scottish actor, who has played the pope’s administrator in “Angels & Demons” and a familiarly robed and bearded Jedi in the Star Wars prequels, chose instead to focus on the humanness of Jesus — the Jesus who still is working out his mission; who audiences see dying, but not resurrected.
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