Actor Jonathan Roumie, who portrays Jesus Christ on screen in the critically-acclaimed and widely-popular series ‘The Chosen,’ opened up about how intense the filming of the crucifixion scene was for him and how the entire process was quite understandably a ‘one-of-a-kind experience.’
For context, Roumie has spent the better part of the last decade identifying to many fans as the Savior. The show launched in 2019 and still clings to cultural relevance as it continues exploring and revealing the world of Jesus Christ and His message. Speaking candidly in an interview about the upcoming Easter season, he said his experience filming the crucifixion and subsequent moments that followed meant this Easter would be felt differently than in the past.
“It’s probably going to be an intense Holy Week for me, because it’s the first Holy Week that I will have experienced, or that I will experience since recreating the Passion and that was a deeply intense, intense experience for me,” Roumie said in an interview with Fox News.
“You know, I spent a lot of time asking the Lord to just show me what he wanted people to see and what he wanted them to experience, and and to if it was at all possible for me to try to experience a fraction of, a fraction of what he went through that I was willing to offer myself in that way, and he gave me some really challenging experiences on set, physically, emotionally,” he added.
It was a one of a kind experience. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life, both professionally and just personally as a human being, everything that I that I experience and go through, I offer to the Lord, and he kind of guides me all the way through.
Then, Roumie shared what filming those scenes meant to him. “He is accessible to people that everything that he went through, he went through on behalf of all of humanity, and that ultimately he is love at its core, and forgiveness and mercy and compassion.”
“So I think if people have this idea of him as this, solely as this judge or this, you know, dispassionate, God, it’s that’s completely, completely wrong. It’s the inverse of that. It says he’s nothing but love and compassion and he’s worth getting to know, because your life will only be better by knowing him deeply.”
The Christian Tribune previously covered Roumie’s Lenten aspirations, where he said he wanted to cut out the noise from society, which he noted – presumably referencing cultural wars, politics, and social media in general – was just a huge distraction.
“I think every year the noise in the culture, the global noise, just seems to get louder and louder and louder. So as we mark these next 40 ish days leading up to Easter, Lent becomes a time for just meditation and peace and reflection,” he remarked in an interview with Fox News Digital.
Roumie also cited the aforementioned Hallow app that features him as the reader for daily prayer. “The 40-Day prayer challenge is essentially the epitome of what it means to take time for yourself to return to this time of meditation and prayerfulness with God. The theme of this prayer challenge that we’re doing on how this year is called the return, particularly it’s, what does it mean to return to the Father? How do we find our way back to the Lord during these 40 days?” he added.