He's No Ordinary Joe ; How the Unknown Playing Jesus in the Bbc's Easter Blockbuster Overcame a Secret Disability to Win the Greatest Part Ever Played
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THE pain was excruciating. With the Moroccan midday sun blazing down actor Joseph Mawle was lifted on to the cross. He could hardly breathe.
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He's No Ordinary Joe ; How the Unknown Playing Jesus in the Bbc's Easter Blockbuster Overcame a Secret Disability to Win the Greatest Part Ever Played
'They had to make sure I was able to bend my legs so I could push myself up to breathe. You actually have to push yourself up in order to take a breath out. You can breathe in but you can't breathe out, so the air gets stuck. That's what would have happened to Christ. He would not have been able to move his legs and would have been asphyxiated because he wouldn't have been able to breathe out.' In every sense this was the hardest scene to film of the new multi- million pound BBC1 production The Passion, which will dominate our TV screens in the run-up to Easter.
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