[jjotto]

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/03/18/history-channel-denies-satan-in-the-bible-series-cast-to-resemble-obama/

...[Executive Producer Mark] Burnett answered: “Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni is a great Moroccan actor. Probably half the cast are Moroccan because we’re in Morocco, just in terms of budgeting, to fly people in from other countries is expensive...

[VeniVidiVici]

...[Executive Producer Mark] Burnett answered: “Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni is a great Moroccan actor. Probably half the cast are Moroccan because we’re in Morocco, just in terms of budgeting, to fly people in from other countries is expensive...

Exactly. To fly Satan in from Washington every day for filming would cost too much.