{"id":2118877,"date":"2025-10-27T18:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2118877"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:50:07","slug":"mel-gibsons-resurrection-of-the-christ-casting-kasia-smutniak-as-mary-sparks-backlash-from-polish-far-right-groups-over-abortion-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mel-gibsons-resurrection-of-the-christ-casting-kasia-smutniak-as-mary-sparks-backlash-from-polish-far-right-groups-over-abortion-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Gibson\u2019s \u2018Resurrection of the Christ\u2019 Casting Kasia Smutniak as Mary Sparks Backlash From Polish Far-Right Groups Over Abortion Views"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The casting of Polish-born actress Kasia Smutniak<\/a> as Mary in Mel Gibson<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThe Resurrection of the Christ<\/a>\u201d is sparking controversy from far-right Catholic groups in her native country, where Smutniak is known as a pro-abortion activist.<\/p>\n

As reported exclusively by Variety, shooting started in early October at Rome\u2019s Cinecitt\u00e0 Studios on Gibson<\/a>\u2019s long-delayed follow up to 2004\u2019s \u201cThe Passion of the Christ<\/a>,\u201d with its main ensemble cast having been entirely recast. Finnish actor Jaakko Ohtonen<\/a> (\u201cThe Last Kingdom<\/a>\u201d) is playing the role of Jesus, replacing original star Jim Caviezel<\/a>. Mary Magdalene<\/a>, a role held in \u201cPassion<\/a>\u201d by Monica Bellucci<\/a>, is being played in \u201cResurrection<\/a>\u201d by Cuban actress Mariela Garriga<\/a>, and Smutniak is replacing Maia Morgenstern<\/a> as Mary.<\/p>\n

Polish media are reporting that supporters of the country\u2019s conservative pro-life Law and Justice party (PiS<\/a>) have written to Gibson\u2019s Icon Productions<\/a> banner to protest Smutniak\u2019s casting,…<\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The casting of Polish-born actress Kasia Smutniak as Mary in Mel Gibson\u2019s \u201cThe Resurrection of the Christ\u201d is sparking controversy from far-right Catholic groups in her native country, where Smutniak is known as a pro-abortion activist. As reported exclusively by Variety, shooting started in early October at Rome\u2019s Cinecitt\u00e0 Studios on Gibson\u2019s long-delayed follow up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2118878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2118877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Mel-Gibsons-\u2018Resurrection-of-the-Christ-Casting-Kasia-Smutniak-as.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2118879,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118877\/revisions\/2118879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2118878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}