Actor Jim Caviezel will not be returning to play the role of Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson's "The Resurrection of the Christ."

Filming for the sequel to the blockbuster film "The Passion of the Christ" began last week at Rome's Cinecittà Studios, Variety reports .

According to the outlet, the entire cast has been replaced, and Finnish actor Jaakko Ohtonen, 36, will play the role of Jesus.

It has been 21 years since the first film came out, so all the original actors have aged during that time. A source close to production told the outlet that because the new film chronologically starts three days after Christ's death, "they would have had to do all this CGI stuff, all this digital stuff — de-aging and all that — that would have been very costly."

"It made sense to recast the whole film,

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