August 12, 1988 –
Universal Pictures released Martin Scorsese’s controversial film The Last Temptation of Christ, starting Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, David Bowie, and Barbara Hershey on this date.
Director Martin Scorsese first read Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel The Last Temptation of Christ, after being given a copy by Barbara Hershey, while he was directing her in Boxcar Bertha, his second feature film. When she read in a trade paper many years later that Scorsese was finally getting the opportunity to direct a film adaptation, she begged him to let her play the role of Mary Magdalene. To make sure she didn’t feel that he was giving her the part as a favor for having recommended the book, he made her audition.
And so it goes
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