'Trainspotting' and 'Moulin Rouge!' star Ewan McGregor's controversial 'Last Days in the Desert' film recently debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, where the famed actor played both Jesus Christ and mankind's greatest tormentor and adversary - the Devil.

McGregor's latest film setting takes place during "an imagined chapter," where the Son of God was harassed by Satan while Christ tries to help a troubled family in the desert.

"The desert is a big setting, but the story is super interpersonal about these relationships," said movie director Rodrigo Garcia, according to an ABC News report.

"In some ways it is a kitchen sink drama, even if one of the dads is God."

The director also addressed the potential controversy regarding 43-year-old Scottish star who played Jesus, the Son of God born in Bethlehem two thousand years ago.

"I am sensitive to the fact that so many times and in many egregious ways white actors have played non-white characters. But I felt like I could take that liberty because I was not doing the historical Jesus, I was not doing a divine Jesus. I was doing a parable," said Garcia.

"I understand the question. I can only put myself at the mercy of the court. I myself couldn't care if I go see an all-black 'Hamlet' for example."

At the film premiere, McGregor gave his thoughts on playing to polar opposite characters in the film that currently has critics buzzing about his out-of-this world performances.

"It's quite an extraordinary situation to be playing two roles in any film. It's quite daunting when one of them is Jesus," said McGregor at the film premiere of the film on January 25.

Previously, McGregor explained in another interview that he believes that his role as Jesus could be viewed as just "another holy guy, a rabbi" searching for answers in the desert.

"I'm not playing Jesus; I'm playing a man whose dad is God and he's trying to speak to his dad. It's really a film about the relationship between fathers and their sons. In every scene of the film, that's at the heart of it...I played Yeshua [Jesus] with total conviction that he was the son of God and that his father had asked him to go on this path, which would lead him to death-to die for people's sins-and I tried to imagine what that might be like for a man," said McGregor to Time Magazine last year.

"And then when I played the demon, I was trying to chip away at that conviction. The demon's trying to drag him away from that."