Instead of a normal mother and child you have an androgynous figure holding a 40-year-old 'baby' with hair on his back. What is more tender and beautiful than a mother and a child? So the Devil takes that and distorts it just a little bit. "Again," said Gibson, "it's evil distorting what's good. We dubbed in a man's voice in Gethsemane even though the actor is a woman … That's what evil is about, taking something that's good and twisting it a little bit." Then we shot her almost in slow motion so you don't see her blink-that's not normal. The actor's face is symmetric, beautiful in a certain sense, but not completely. "That's what I tried to do with the Devil in the film. It looks almost normal, almost good-but not quite. When asked why he portrayed Satan-an androgynous, almost beautiful being played by Rosalinda Celentano-the way he did, Gibson replied: "I believe the Devil is real, but I don't believe he shows up too often with horns and smoke and a forked tail.
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