![‘The Chosen’s’ Jonathan Roumie Talks Playing Jesus [Exclusive]](https://i1.wp.com/bossip.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2025/04/17435397421496.png?strip=all&quality=80&w=1680&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C960px&ssl=1 "‘The Chosen’s’ Jonathan Roumie Talks Playing Jesus [Exclusive]")
Taking over the position of Jesus Christ isn’t any small process, however The Chosen’s Jonathan Roumie is the right man for the job—he even flips tables higher than a actuality TV housewife.
The historic collection, primarily based on the 4 Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, follows the lifetime of Jesus Christ and his disciples below Roman rule.
Roumie, who signed on to the challenge when it was a crowdfunded collection, has been alongside for the experience, main the present to industrial success.
5 seasons later, Roumie is getting mistaken for Jesus Christ himself.
On a latest look on Sherri, Roumie mentioned the distinctive encounters he’s had with followers who’ve bother separating the actor from his character. “I’ve had folks ask me to baptize their youngsters,” the actor mentioned.
Now, as he reprises his position within the present’s fifth season, the main man ought to put together for much more fan interactions because the collection takes on probably the most eventful durations of the New Testomony: Holy Week—and the season’s namesake, the “Final Supper.“
BOSSIP chatted with the main man concerning the newest season, which features a “actuality TV second” from Jesus as he flips over tables within the temple, to revive its holy origins after witnessing corruption and exploitation of the poor.
And as one would think about, flipping tables over is enjoyable.
“It was essentially the most enjoyable I’ve had in your complete collection,” Roumie informed BOSSIP. As thrilling because it was to roughhouse with furnishings, Roumie understands the need of Jesus’ dramatic act. “Jesus, as a illustration of God within the flesh, noticed people who had been speculated to be shepherding and caring for his flock, his devotees, being taken benefit of by the leaders in cost,” he mentioned. “And he wasn’t proper with that. That wasn’t proper. And since they had been so cussed, and since they had been primarily desecrating the temple, he mentioned ‘I’m going to wash this temple out and make some extent and so they’re going to study what it’s to serve God—and what it means to maintain the temple holy.”
Roumie, who has been main the present since its pilot, shared how enjoying Jesus has impacted him as an individual.
“I hope enjoying Jesus has made me a greater human on the whole. I really feel that it has compelled me to contemplate issues in a distinct gentle, in a extra delicate gentle, in a extra forgiving gentle, and giving grace the place possibly I wouldn’t have given grace previously. So it’s made me need to be one of the best model of myself attainable.”
The Chosen: Final Supper is now displaying in theaters and can launch on Prime Video in June 2025.
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