THE CHOSEN Star Reveals What’s Ahead in ‘Heartbreaking’ Season 5
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Elizabeth Tabish, who plays Mary Magdalene in THE CHOSEN, is opening up about her experience at her first ChosenCon event and dishing on what fans can expect from Season 5.
“It’s amazing. It’s really fun. This is my first ChosenCon, so it’s all kind of new to me,” Tabish said at ChosenCon last week. “A little overwhelming but it’s so much love and so much warmth, so it’s really nice too.”
“I did a meet and greet this morning, and it was wonderful. Everyone’s just so, so lovely, and some people were dressed up in costume, and I met another Mary Magdalene, and she was like dressed in the same thing. It was really cool,” she said.
The first half of THE CHOSEN Season 4 is currently streaming on the CW. Tabish says her favorite parts of the season are actually in the last half, especially episodes 7 and 8.
“[I’m] a little biased, but there’s some, one of my favorite stories in the Gospels is played out in episode 7, and then episode 8 is really sort of the beginning of the end. So it’s heartbreaking but it’s so, so beautiful. So I’m excited,” she said.
THE CHOSEN’s creator, Dallas Jenkins, confirmed at ChosenCon that Season 5 is done filming and will be released sometime next year.
In season 5, “everything is escalating. It’s Holy week so it’s just this very condensed time but so much happens as we all know,” Tabish said.
“It’s gonna be heartbreaking. It’s gonna be challenging to experience, but it’s also, I don’t know, some of my favorite stories. So I am excited.”
Movieguide® recently reported what Jenkins said about Season 5:
It “covers the most important and influential week in the history of the world, Holy Week. And so we start to see now, we start to get in Jesus’ head a little bit. We start to see what he’s thinking and feeling as he approaches the cross.”
“We start lean into the fact that the disciples are confused.. Why is Jesus dividing people here? Do we have a chance in Holy Week…a million Jews are together. Why aren’t we unifying so that we can defeat the Romans? And Jesus is doing the opposite so we really explore that. But Jesus also gets to kick a little butt this week too.”
At the event, Jenkins announced that a few new shows are underway in the CHOSEN universe.
“After THE CHOSEN wraps, for his next flagship program, Jenkins plans to next write, direct and showrun a three-season series about the life of Moses,” Variety reported Sept. 20.
Among the other projects are an animated series, THE CHOSEN ADVENTURES, a show about the Acts of the Apostles, a show about Joseph and THE CHOSEN IN THE WILD WITH BEAR GRYLLS.
Movieguide® gave THE CHOSEN series and its actor who plays Jesus, Jonathon Roumie, a Teddy Bear Award® in recent years.
