play Judas

Stone had intimated in an interview with journalist Howard Fineman that he could "play Judas" against Trump.

“He knows I was under enormous pressure to turn on him. It would have eased my situation considerably. But I didn’t. They wanted me to play Judas. I refused.”

It had always been Minchin's ambition to play Judas, he revealed.

And I’d love to play Judas someday.

Once he has refused to play Judas, the only role open to him is Jesus.