How Mary Magdalene Changes in THE CHOSEN Season 5
By Movieguide® Contributor
Actress Elizabeth Tabish appreciates how “complicated” her character Mary Magdalene is, as well as how the character has developed throughout the seasons of THE CHOSEN.
In an interview with Movieguide®, Tabish shared what drew her to this special character in the first place.
“I was really impressed with how complicated this character is and how messy she is,” she explained. “It’s a historical figure and we see these saints usually depicted as, just sort of these like untouchable and already ‘saintly.’ It was the first time I really saw who Mary was before Jesus healed her, and as an actress I had been really frustrated with the sort of roles I was auditioning for or not auditioning for.”
Tabish shared how she didn’t like the unrealistic portrayals of women in films, and she felt that THE CHOSEN showed a more realistic view.
“[I] felt sort of just frustrated with the quality of like how realistic the depictions of women in general,” she said.
“When I read this, I was really excited about how they made her fully human fully messy um and also like just a fully dimensional person.”
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This season, Mary has learned to take the focus off her own troubles and fix her eyes on Jesus.
“For Mary’s journey this season, she’s doing some things that are very different from what we’ve seen before,” Tabish explained. “She’s finally like not thinking about her past or herself in any way. She’s completely focused on a mission to help Jesus, and so that’s exciting to be able to have new types of scenes written for Mary challenges.”
Movieguide® previously reported on Tabish’s character in the upcoming season 5:
“Elizabeth Tabish believes that season 5 of THE CHOSEN is going to show a new side to her character. ‘It’s been an empowering thing because usually a woman that has gone through that sort of trauma doesn’t always have a happy ending,’ she told YouTuber Ruslan of her character Mary Magdalene, ‘and I can’t imagine a happier ending than being the first person to witness Jesus resurrected, so I just I think hers is such a joyful story, and it’s a privilege to get to play her.’ Regarding the season, she added, ‘Everything’s just ramped up…like the stakes are so much higher. The very first episode Mary really hears what Jesus is saying and is really starting to put pieces together of this puzzle and realizes that He is not making a metaphor; He is going to die. It is such a shock and real. I think she starts a grieving process in this season that, I think the way it’s written, is sort of preparing her to stay at the cross.’”
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