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The CHOSEN’s Jonathan Roumie at Movieguide® Awards: ‘Honor of My Life, to Portray Jesus’

THE CHOSEN’s Jonathan Roumie at Movieguide® Awards: ‘Honor of My Life, to Portray Jesus’

By Movieguide® Staff

After THE CHOSEN premiered Season 3 of their hit series about the life and ministry of Jesus in theaters, they became eligible to be nominated at the 2023 Movieguide® Awards Gala. 

Although Movieguide® nominated THE CHOSEN for several categories, THE CHOSEN won the prestigious Epiphany Prize for Movies. 

The show’s titular star Jonathan Roumie, who plays the role of Jesus, joined some of his cast and crew on stage and thanked them for the opportunity to be a part of a faith-filled, uplifting show. 

“On behalf of many of the cast members, but especially myself, this has been the absolute honor of my life, to get to portray Jesus, and these characters in this story,” he said. “In a way that’s never been ever done before and done with such a level of quality and commitment to God, to honor God with a level of excellence using all the gifts and talents that He’s given us. So we have the cast. Thank you. Thank you fans. Thank you, friends, family loved the ones who supported us, and continue to support us as we roll along with Season Four for several months coming up here. So please pray for us. Thank you. God bless you.”

Movieguide® previously reported on THE CHOSEN:

While at a recent conference, THE CHOSEN actor Jonathan Roumie discussed how he approaches playing the role of Jesus, and the power that TV and movies have to connect viewers to God. 

Given the divine mystery that Jesus was both fully God and fully human, Roumie explained how he approaches this aspect of the character when he is portraying Jesus.

“Grace is the first word that comes to mind,” he said. “Before approaching the role, before approaching each season, there’s always a substantial amount of prayer that goes into trying to take on, as best as I can in my own sort of feeble humanity, the mind or personage of God; which is impossible. So all I can do is bring the fullness of my humanity… to the role and then ask God to utilize me sort of like a mirror to reflect his grace, his mercy, his love, his compassion, in all of the scenes.” …

“They’re not recorded, but the mundane matters of the earthly life had to have been discussed, talked about, joked about, fretted over by the disciples, because they must of,” he continued. “And Jesus being human, fully human and fully divine, in his full humanity could still relate to them in some fashion and what were those conversations like, but He’s still God.”

The Movieguide® Awards, and Roumie’s speech, is now streaming on UP Faith & Family.