The passion is historical. You know, they had a rabbi on television on... Scarborough country going, this is historical. The Jewish historians, the Roman historians told the same story. This is what happened to the most famous individual in world history, Jesus Christ.

to read a script in advance, and they were super concerned that it seemed like the movie was setting out to make the Jewish people the primary antagonists in the film, with the Romans just Kind of being there and having their hands tied by Jewish influence.

But he was very swayed by her visions of the passion. One of the articles that I was reading points out that there's at least one example of something in the movie that is directly from those visions as opposed to being biblical.