NEW YORK: Kevin Costner said people “shouldn’t be attacking” Mel Gibson for ‘The Passion of the Christ’, in an interview to ‘Access Hollywood’.

“We shouldn’t be attacking a filmmaker like Mel Gibson who, number one, is an honourable filmmaker... and probably questioned himself more than anybody even knows. So, like leave him alone,” the 49-year-old director-actor said.

The film, starring Jim Caviezel as Jesus, is a bloody depiction of Christ’s final hours and crucifixion. Some Christian and Jewish leaders have complained the movie could fuel anti-Semitism by implying Jews were collectively responsible for Christ’s death. — AP