Season 5 of the wildly popular series “The Chosen” hits theaters Friday, Mar. 28. This season opens the Bible to focus on the final week of Jesus’ life on earth. Jonathan Roumie plays the role of Jesus in the series and described the biblical story’s arc to CBN News.
“Steamroller. Bulldozer. Intensity. A melee of emotions and conflicts. Climax of conflicts between Jesus and the authorities,” Roumie said.
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“Climactic frustrations between Jesus and His disciples – their inability to get what He is telling them within days of it happening. It will be the most beautiful, the most complex, most intense season we have ever done,” he continued.
The production this season has grown and actor Shahar Isaac, who plays Simon Peter, sees a striking difference this season on the sound stage.
“I think what’s funny about it that everything on the surface is gigantic and bigger and more everything on the surface. The sets are bigger, there’s more people. We were in Utah three weeks with 600 people every day. Everything grows. The spirit and the heart is the same. But yes, of course the sets are huge and there’s a lot of people and the show has grown. But I don’t know. I love that we are still in the same,” Isaac said.
Paras Patel, who plays Matthew, and Elizabeth Tabish, who plays Mary Magdalene, describe their feelings as the overall series will soon end in a few years.
“I’ve been sad, to be honest, just because we’re just so close and connected and we are a big family here, so I’m not going to lie, I’ve been a bit emotional this season,” Patel told CBN News.
“It’s really mixed feelings. I don’t think I really expected it to happen so quickly. Thought maybe over the course of many years, we’ll get to season seven, but I’ve been so surprised by how quickly it’s grown and that’s allowed us to make the seasons faster. So, it’s just, at first it was this sort of slow, gradual growth and now it feels like it’s sped up and it feels like it’s going away,” Tabish said.
For Patel and Tabish, portraying the roles of Matthew and Mary Magdalene is personal.
“I’ve learned, it’s actually made me more confident. I’ve learned a lot about myself, and I give that full credit to the writers, the showrunners, just giving Matthew this kind of personality, body, and depth,” Patel said.
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