Cynthia Erivo Cast as Jesus

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What Jesus REALLY looked like - as Cynthia Erivo is cast as Christ

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Cynthia Erivo , 38 , will play Jesus in a new production of Jesus Christ Superstar .

Biblical and religious studies expert Dr Meredith Warren says Jesus would have looked like any other member of Judean society in the first century AD .

She says he would have had brown skin, brown eyes and brown hands and feet, like the local population.

In 2015 , medical artist Richard Neave used forensic techniques to reconstruct the face of a Judean man by studying Semite skulls.

The portrait revealed a wide face, dark eyes, a bushy beard and short curly hair, as well as a tanned complexion which might have been typical of Jews in the Galilee area.

In first-century Judea , long robes like these would have been seen as women's clothing.

Instead, men from the region would have worn a short woollen tunic made up of two pieces.

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