|
MARTY BOWEN (Producer) on Keisha Castle-Hughes’ real pregnancy at the age of 16:
“She’s really wonderful in the movie and we all grew to love her as a person, so all we can do is pray for her, love her and support her. Ultimately we hope people will embrace the movie for its merits.”
WYCK GODFREY (Producer):
“I admire her; I think she made a very courageous decision to keep this child, that’s not an easy thing for a young girl to do. There’s a great line in the movie, ‘There’s a will for this child, greater than my fear of what they may do,’ and Keisha’s stood by that, and I really respect her and admire her for it.”
CATHERINE HARDWICKE:
“When I did the research and found out that Mary was 13 or 14 years old, I immediately thought of my girls at 13, like Nikki and Evan [Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood, who starred in Harwicke’s Thirteen] what if they were in this circumstance where everybody else scorned them, nobody believed them, it just started drawing me in. I wanted to explore what it would it feel like to be going through this amazing journey, and how do you find that inner faith to continue?”
OSCAR ISAAC (Joseph):
“I just tried to approach Joseph like any other character. How is he a real person? How is he like me? How is he not like me? I didn’t know anything really about him. He was always in the back, you never really knew how integral his role was and how it almost wouldn’t have happened had he made a couple of different choices. So it really brought him to the forefront for me playing him.”
SHOHREH AGHDASHLOO (Elizabeth, John the Baptist’s
mother:
“When I was offered the role, I started to do research on Elizabeth and unfortunately there isn’t much said about her. There are only a few lines in the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament and also an A to Z Bible with 3500 characters. It says in the Bible that although she was barren, God gave her a baby in her senior years, and I assume that senior means when you don’t produce eggs, so she must have been somewhere between 45 and 55.”
HARDWICKE on the movie premiering at the Vatican:
“I don’t know if it’s even sunk in yet. I knew there was the possibility, but I really didn’t want to believe that it was going to [happen]. I just couldn’t dare to dream about it. It’s an incredible honor. What do you wear to the Vatican?” [she laughs]
| 
THE CONCEPT:
