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Jonathan Roumie

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The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

They don't often, nobody really releases figures in streaming for viewership and any of that kind of data. But we do because we're like, well, we don't care. We want to tell people like it's been estimated right now that about 280 million people have seen the show globally.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

They don't often, nobody really releases figures in streaming for viewership and any of that kind of data. But we do because we're like, well, we don't care. We want to tell people like it's been estimated right now that about 280 million people have seen the show globally.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

They don't often, nobody really releases figures in streaming for viewership and any of that kind of data. But we do because we're like, well, we don't care. We want to tell people like it's been estimated right now that about 280 million people have seen the show globally.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

In the first season I did, there was this moment, especially, which I've kind of talked about at times where, and it's still, I think it's still sort of affects me. I actually like telling the story because it's a reminder for me to remember what it's all about and who I'm serving as I endeavor to portray this role. And so we were about midway through the first season.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

In the first season I did, there was this moment, especially, which I've kind of talked about at times where, and it's still, I think it's still sort of affects me. I actually like telling the story because it's a reminder for me to remember what it's all about and who I'm serving as I endeavor to portray this role. And so we were about midway through the first season.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

In the first season I did, there was this moment, especially, which I've kind of talked about at times where, and it's still, I think it's still sort of affects me. I actually like telling the story because it's a reminder for me to remember what it's all about and who I'm serving as I endeavor to portray this role. And so we were about midway through the first season.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

And the time came for me as Jesus to start preaching, you know, full on sermons. And we started filming sermons. And then as I was going through these words, I suddenly, it's like I kind of felt I was outside of myself, listening to myself preach to a crowd outside the doors of, in our story, Zebedee, James and John's father, Zebedee's house.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

And the time came for me as Jesus to start preaching, you know, full on sermons. And we started filming sermons. And then as I was going through these words, I suddenly, it's like I kind of felt I was outside of myself, listening to myself preach to a crowd outside the doors of, in our story, Zebedee, James and John's father, Zebedee's house.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

And the time came for me as Jesus to start preaching, you know, full on sermons. And we started filming sermons. And then as I was going through these words, I suddenly, it's like I kind of felt I was outside of myself, listening to myself preach to a crowd outside the doors of, in our story, Zebedee, James and John's father, Zebedee's house.

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

And there was a crowd of people that was growing, a crowd of onlookers, you know, our wonderful background actors that participate in the show, and many of whom have participated for years. This crowd starts growing outside the house as Jesus begins preaching, and the scene's not specifically about Jesus, it's about other stuff that's happening in the background,

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

And there was a crowd of people that was growing, a crowd of onlookers, you know, our wonderful background actors that participate in the show, and many of whom have participated for years. This crowd starts growing outside the house as Jesus begins preaching, and the scene's not specifically about Jesus, it's about other stuff that's happening in the background,

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

And there was a crowd of people that was growing, a crowd of onlookers, you know, our wonderful background actors that participate in the show, and many of whom have participated for years. This crowd starts growing outside the house as Jesus begins preaching, and the scene's not specifically about Jesus, it's about other stuff that's happening in the background,

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

that becomes the foreground of the story. And in the background, Jesus is preaching, but I still have to preach. I still have to say these lines from scripture convincingly and try to mesmerize and galvanize the people that are listening to me and get their attention. And they seemed really attentive, so much so that it made me really self-aware. And I thought, what am I saying?

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

that becomes the foreground of the story. And in the background, Jesus is preaching, but I still have to preach. I still have to say these lines from scripture convincingly and try to mesmerize and galvanize the people that are listening to me and get their attention. And they seemed really attentive, so much so that it made me really self-aware. And I thought, what am I saying?

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

that becomes the foreground of the story. And in the background, Jesus is preaching, but I still have to preach. I still have to say these lines from scripture convincingly and try to mesmerize and galvanize the people that are listening to me and get their attention. And they seemed really attentive, so much so that it made me really self-aware. And I thought, what am I saying?

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

What are these words? Like, these are holy, holy words set by the holiest being that ever walked the face of the earth. I shouldn't be doing this. This, this feels wrong. And so I would have those feelings and then, you know, we would stop and then move on to the next setup and put the camera in a different place. And then as it, as it went on, I just had to stop

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

What are these words? Like, these are holy, holy words set by the holiest being that ever walked the face of the earth. I shouldn't be doing this. This, this feels wrong. And so I would have those feelings and then, you know, we would stop and then move on to the next setup and put the camera in a different place. And then as it, as it went on, I just had to stop

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

What are these words? Like, these are holy, holy words set by the holiest being that ever walked the face of the earth. I shouldn't be doing this. This, this feels wrong. And so I would have those feelings and then, you know, we would stop and then move on to the next setup and put the camera in a different place. And then as it, as it went on, I just had to stop

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

the production for a moment to talk to the director, to Dallas Jenkins. And I said, can we just slow down a second? And he said, what's going on? And so I took him aside. I said, listen, man, I'm having a hard time right now. Like,

The Tucker Carlson Show
Jonathan Roumie: The Weight of Playing Jesus in The Chosen, & How to Raise Your Spiritual Awareness

the production for a moment to talk to the director, to Dallas Jenkins. And I said, can we just slow down a second? And he said, what's going on? And so I took him aside. I said, listen, man, I'm having a hard time right now. Like,