I think that's a huge 'unknown' and a huge 'half-truth.' It's PROBABLE to say that middle easterners IN GENERAL have a predominancy to dark hair and brown eyes. I'm sure that in antiquitythat even amongst full blooded Semitesthere were likely many exceptions to hair and eye colorwithout changing the GENERAL RULE.

I noticed all the blue eyes too, but all those actors had dark features. It's like that all over TV, movies, modelsblue eyes dominate, even though only 8% of the world has them, because people find them more attractive than brown.

Yet the story she's supposedly telling is the one of how the apostles spread the word. If the word was spread already, what's the big drama of their efforts? She sabotaged her own story AND wasn't faithful to the historical truth.
All around bad storytelling.

True. But I think Downey as story-teller has compressed some elements (in this case, the time element) to emphasize what for her is the larger truth that Jesus' life and death have significance for everyone. One way to do that is to show from the get-go that followers of the risen Lord have different skin colors, different eye colors, etc.

But the bits you quote precisely demonstrate how the movement didn't START internationally but developed as such instead. In the beginning, all of its members were Middle Eastern Jews. And while today Jews are as varied as the human race, back then they were not.

Roma Downey has remarked in several interviews that she and Mark Burnett wanted an international group of actors for the series because they wanted to show the global diversity of the movement.
The 'movement' is intended to be global and diverse:
Go therefore and make disciples of ALL NATIONS, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit . . . .
(Matthew 28:19)
There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for ALL OF YOU ARE ONE in Christ Jesus.
(Galatians 3:28)

Has anyone else noticed how many blue eyes are in this movie. Middle Easterners, Jews, are not known for their blue eyes. Yet, Downey has chosen to use blue eyes over brown, or dark. I wonder why.
Since idiot boy Lewis decided to go on about some hate filled blabber and not even address what you asked, I'll try.
I am sure it was just a matter of those people, as in the actors that they chose, having those eye colour. Who knows really though.

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