British independent film producer Cassian Cary Elwes is addressing protests by Christian organizations over his upcoming film Habit.
The film features Paris Jackson, the daughter of pop icon Michael Jackson, who news outlets initially alleged would be playing the part of Jesus as a lesbian woman.
As Christian Headlines previously reported, multiple Christian organizations such as Movieguide and One Million Moms started petitions calling for the film’s cancellation. Both petitions have garnered thousands of signatures.
According to the film’s official description, the movie follows a “party girl with a Jesus fetish who gets mixed up in a violent drug deal and finds a possible way out by masquerading as a nun.”
Elwes, who leads the independent film production company Elevated Films, dismissed claims that Jackson would be playing a lesbian Jesus calling the notion “absolute nonsense.”
That’s absolute nonsense https://t.co/VoIpxPRx8F
— cassian elwes (@cassianelwes) July 2, 2020
When a reporter asked Elwes about the petitions made against Habit, he asserted that the controversy was overblown.
“Of course the story has been completely blown out of proportion.” Elwes wrote last week on Twitter. “In fact, Paris appears in a fantasy moment that Bella [Thorne] has in the film where Bella has a vision of her mother (played by Paris) dressed as Jesus.”
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