Roumie shared that people have told him that “when they read the Bible, my face pops into their mind as they’re hearing Scriptures.”
He said the same experience happens to him with other actors from “The Chosen” when he hears Scripture being read. “Even for myself,” Roumie said, “when I’m at mass and the priest is reading the gospel and he’s talking about Peter, I’m thinking of Shahar Isaac, who plays Peter in our show.”
Describing what that’s like, Roumie said:
I’m like, okay, yeah, I can’t get him out of my head. And, yeah, but okay, I love Shahar, and he’s great as Peter, and so, yeah. It’s just you try [to separate the actor from reality], even as an artist, you still suffer that. You can’t quite make the separation because you now have this relationship with these people and these characters, and so to be the face of what is often the most important relationship in a person’s life—maybe even beyond their family—it’s like God first, and then family and then everything else. To be the face of that for people, I don’t often, I try not to think about that.
Roumie told Carlson that he believes God has given him “the gift and the grace of kind of being somewhat blinded to the magnitude of it and the weight” of playing the role of Jesus.
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“Sometimes I can feel it,” Roumie said. “[But] most of the time, I think I’m shielded from it. Because I think if I was aware of exactly what that implication was—even for a single person—it would crush me.”
As Lent begins, Jonathan Roumie of The Chosen explains the power of prayer and fasting.
(0:00) How the Call to Play Jesus Was an Answer to Roumie’s Prayers
(9:35) The Weight of Playing Jesus
(18:41) What Is Lent? How Does Roumie Observe It?
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