TV TATTLE
Netflix has found its Messiah
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Mehdi Dehbi will play the lead role in the Mark Burnett/Roma Downey-produced drama about a “man who first appears in the Middle East creating a groundswell of followers around him claiming he is the Messiah…People are unsure if he is a divine messenger or a political rabble-rouser.”
TOPICS: Messiah, Netflix, Mark Burnett, Mehdi Dehbi, Roma Downey
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