 Stars Christian Bale (qv) and Willem Dafoe (qv) have both played  Jesus in previous films: Bale in  _Mary, Mother of Jesus (1999) (TV)_ (qv) and Dafoe in  _Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988)_ (qv). In  _English Patient, The (1996)_ (qv), Dafoe played opposite  Jürgen Prochnow (qv), who played Jesus in  _Seventh Sign, The (1988)_ (qv).