(Reposted) Jonathan Roumie Instagram live

hello hello oh that's not forgetting hello scully hello hello oh my goodness 1200 what that can't be real is it whoa that's not real that is real oh hi friends i yeah there's a there's a lot of you there's a lot of you honored 1500 you don't understand i i never i never i never see this amount of people whenever i do any of these ah this is that's incredible wow um welcome to uh my humble abode um so tonight uh i just we'll just get right to it um first of all the name of the following spirit amen anything worth doing is always worth starting with prayer before you do it heavenly father thank you for this time the opportunity to get to connect with the hundreds and almost thousands of people that have been so supportive of my of me my work and my ministry to um to bring an interpretation of jesus to people so that they may relate to him more personally i thank you for the opportunity to connect in a meaningful way with all of these folks uh bless this conversation bless our video interactions in jesus name we pray father holy spirit amen so yeah uh tonight is about you guys tonight is about uh taking the opportunity to have a video a live video interaction which i've never done and i'm frankly quite nervous about i don't know how this is going to go i have no cl this might have been a really bad idea or it could be a great idea i think it's a good idea and i think um i think uh god will bless it somewhere sorry ma my mom just tried to call in um she'll get the idea um okay well uh yeah so couple ground rules um i'm gonna try to um let as many um people pop on with me live in video form like i would do like a um a live stream with uh hallow app or or the action i don't think i've ever done a live stream with the chosen here on instagram um with other people with other ministers pastors that i've uh connected with and um i think it should be the same technology i'm kind of technologically uh struggle busting at times i guess um so i'm gonna do my best to uh make sure this goes smoothly and just press the buttons i think i'm supposed to press and uh what i would love to do is give as many people as i can the opportunity to say hello and ask me one question that i will try to answer because with 900 people on uh and very many requests uh i don't know that well i won't be able to get to every one of them so i would do my best um a couple of things uh keep it classy i'm a gentleman so let's keep it classy if you do get the opportunity to pop on here um [Music] there is one question that has has i've seen on the internet that's come up repeatedly that i'll just answer um just to save whoever might ask it uh if somebody wants to ask it well it's obviously somebody's been asking it online and the internet apparently has the answer whether or not i'm married in the internet according to the internet i'm married to a woman named diane in canada i don't know who that person is i don't know where that came from um apparently we have a child i haven't met so uh yeah that's none of that's true i'm not married to anyone i'm not certainly not diane although i'm sure she's lovely and uh i don't have kids so let's just get that out of the way uh and let's just dive in i think i got about an hour here with y'all and uh it should be fun okay video requests all right i'm just gonna go in order and uh i think i pressed that no wait is that right send requests wait a minute bear with me [Music] okay i think i think i'm just gonna press that and because it says request and hi hi welcome hello hey we're working is this thing on yeah okay um my headphones aren't working so i'm out of my head uh lovely to meet you in person i've seen a number of your posts and you've reposted stuff thank you turn off the comments while we do it so i can see your face turn off commenting there we go yeah you were the first one up so so i understand this is a learning process for all of us now did you actually submit or did was it random that like because it said requests and i just pressed send request well i don't know so i would so i was requesting and i asked myself too many people to request a shutdown instagram restart it up and then as soon as i got back on it said jonathan wants to be live with you so all right well there you go here we go i got in my cat mary magdalene so she was born on easter monday four years ago so today um and i'm an author and a catholic marriage and family therapist and i wanted to know if you've had any thoughts about your book recently i know that you've been thinking um i self-published my first book a couple years ago and it was just such a journey to write kind of my autobiography and kind of write how god has worked my story so i wanted to know if you've been thinking any more about what you may be called to write yes well thank you for that um that's a great question um not a dream uh i'll just answer while you're on here um so i have thought about it but uh i've the furthest that i've been able to get is that i i don't have time to think about it um things especially with the chosen now are just kind of in overdrive um so i've begun writing and compiling ideas and stories and notes and um i've spoken to a few people that are interested in just actually happen um so i think i think it will eventually happen i don't know that it will happen um anytime in the immediate future but it is something that i'm um excited about doing and uh yeah as soon as the wheels are in motion for that but i'll be praying for you with that and get us more episodes first that's the first priority so um i loved it last night so appreciate it thank you yeah we were excited to finally see it you need the prayers you need lots of prayers to carry use they're all of this so everything i can get so much was lovely to meet you in person thank you so much good to see you i i wonder how now this would be interesting so i have to exit i think i have to exit and then i if i exit or i press the x then the whole thing shuts down right yeah i think so is there an x on my box or is there just an x on it isn't so i have to leave just in the way i do a lot so i do this a lot okay well thank you this is you're the perfect first guest to do this so everybody this will be a nice little lesson for everybody um feel free to uh x off yourself um so i also love piper's picture behind you piper's in our prayer community and i just love your new addition to your wall right there i can't really take a tripod so if you see that right there that is a drawing that piperclap did uh look for piperclat on instagram that i finally got and i had it framed because it's so beautiful it's super detailed i don't know how many millions of hours it took her to do it um but yeah i literally just say because this is the first chance i had yeah she's off for six months because she just joined the convent but so she's off social media for six months until she thanks jonathan all right thank you so much annie take care okay that was pretty cool all right um yeah i feel like if i press the x the whole thing shuts down uh let's see okay here's one here that's another one i recognize i'll give it a second given that a second um what else can i tell you about me in the meantime um i'm also an artist a visual artist i used to be an illustrator for uh for most of my young life and then um i decided to go study film which was pretty cool i didn't know if i wanted to be a director i had no intention of being an actor none whatsoever the closest thing i wanted to get was um being a voice over artist because i love cartoons and i thought well if there was any there was any kind of job that i think i would wouldn't mind doing as a performer it'd be for voices because i i do a lot of impressions i do accents i do an accident show the chosen as you know um and okay so that request went away so i'll find another one and um yeah uh and so i started out my career doing voiceover work so with that let's go here i think this should be our fan page and there she is hello how are you what are you doing i'm doing good christmas like yourself yeah it's good to see you uh thank you for picking me and um i hope you had a good easter i did happy easter to you too and to everyone thank you um yeah we are now in the easter season and it lasts 50 days that's right get to pentecost which is the um arrival of the holy spirit on disciples and all of them farming out to go uh um so i'm sorry your audio keeps cutting so sometimes we don't hear what you're saying let me try these again how about now all right sounds good oh yeah fantastic thank you for that sorry if you guys couldn't hear me before so ornella thank you for being here thank you for uh stopping by um of course i'm sure you may have a question and you also said you had some news that's right uh i'm gonna start with the news if it's okay with you sure um so this is on behalf of the jonathan rooney fan page um we have um we came up with a gofundme for your theater company uh so the um the fundraiser lasted for the entire time of lent wow so i just wanted to present to you and then i will also uh get in touch with maria okay i just wanted to show you what we raised i don't know if it's going to be backwards is it backwards yeah so we raised 8 000 two hundred and four dollars oh my gosh wow for you guys on behalf of the jonathan room event page wow god bless you guys thank you and anyway so the the company that uh arnela is talking about is the gk chesterton entertainment um we started out as a theater company uh with a way to uh sort of have something that officially was a a sort of a a non-profit hub for the passion play that we do every we've been doing the last several years called the last days and then last year once we covered sort of cancelled that option to to perform live in the theater um we pivoted to decide to make it an entertainment uh company doing different kinds of projects and including these devotions and so we had a fundraiser uh this lent and the jonathan rooney fan page was so gracious enough to try to uh to to go ahead and raise money for the company because we're just starting out and in order to produce projects that we feel people really want to see um thanks for raising money so thank you so much that is such a blessing for us thank you so so much yeah this is our this is our easter gift for you oh thank you thank you so much i don't even i'm so humble no i i was i was as shocked as you are because when i saw the total this morning i was like unbelievable because it went over the goal that i had put down i have put down 5 000 and we raised 8 000. it's it's just that's unbelievable yeah thank you thank you thank you well we really uh look forward to putting it uh to good use to stewarding it well and and um as uh many folks know uh the play that we had uh we we filmed it and we actually just aired it on ewtn which is the largest um catholic network um in i think in the world and uh and so that's kind of opening up doors for us as well so that the the the gift that you guys have donated is certainly going to be um helping us to uh make more content uh and future content for the company so thank you so much well you can't wait yeah so what questions can i answer for you yes so uh during mercy night that you did last year you talked about you talked about um that you do some volunteer work with special needs children or adults i don't remember exactly now so because this is something that it's very dear to my heart i just wanted to ask you if you can talk a little bit more about that exactly um what you do and i i worked and there's uh so there's a limited amount of information i can i can give only because uh of course the situation i was in was working with a private client and just um helping the the client was a young person um just kind of be um acclimated socially acclimated um in and having you know um interactions in in the outside world with with people that uh maybe were not um uh as um used to to working with people that have special needs or people on the spectrum and so uh i i i've always loved working with kids i love kids i don't have kids but i love kids and um i love working with them and just how they think in their mind and their freedom and expressing themselves and and um and so this uh this opportunity came through uh a friend of mine and i had never done it before but i just thought it was uh an opportunity to to be able to teach what you know with a similar kind of uh with a sense of patience that i have with with kids and with people uh to kind of pass that along and to teach the this person a skill um that uh in the performance realm which is how it started you know just passing on kind of what i know as a performer and uh and then it grew um more more involved um and became about uh so like i said sort of a social uh um acclimation to to the their outside world and helping them kind of um read people and and and um you know respond and things like that so that's that's pretty much what that's about that's wonderful yeah thank you so much i appreciate it thank you so much and uh i'm sure they're talking to you soon yes the jonathan vermee fan page is looking forward to praying with you yes yes no now that went here i know you're busy but yeah uh well easter is was getting to this weekend was a huge weekend for me for a number of reasons and um now as things kind of the next several weeks it'll be a little easier to try to figure out where where and when we can do this so i'll definitely touch base and we'll figure it out of course awesome thank you thank you so much god bless you god bless you thank you soon bye how do i exit do you see an x this is fun no i don't the top right corner i really don't see it i'm clicking but i don't see anything let me see i guess i'm stuck let's see if i can also if i click on a new request i wonder if it will sub it up actually that might add another person on because you can go live with four people now like you plus three yeah it's something i didn't even know that okay well apparently there's some i'm sorry i'm really looking hold on a second uh oh maybe i can remove okay try that because i i really don't see an x let me do and if i if it works i'll see you soon and if not we'll just keep trying okay okay bye all right okay that worked figured it out all right thank you again anila wow uh praise god uh thank you for that gift what what a gift to to to be supported in that way um yeah and if you if you want to see a version of the passion um that i performed live um the year before last uh but it's a brand new cut it's a it's a fresh sort of take on passion place uh you can go to gkce.org and and watch stream the program and support us so thank you so much jonathan ruby fan page love you guys all right let's go to the next one here this is a young man that i haven't been able to connect with noah hi jonathan you made it hey buddy hey how are you doing i'm good how are you i'm doing good i wasn't expecting this to happen i uh you know you're i pressed this list of requests and your name was there so i said let me talk to noah because i haven't been able to talk to him so how are you doing yeah i'm doing good i just thought saw your post earlier uh today that you're gonna be going live with some people who are coming on here and i thought i might try that so and there you are here you are you tried it and there you go and you got a lot of artwork in the back that's really cool look at that a lot of uh from maria maria forget how you say her last name she's a very talented artist yeah you got some good ones i've seen a few of those those are awesome man so how's it been going you've uh you've been keeping pretty busy interviewing um uh a number of uh cast members and stuff huh yeah and that was what i was gonna ask you tonight uh okay going to when are we gonna get an interview with you right to the hard-hitting questions uh well now now that things are a little uh more quiet um it'll be easier to be able to figure that out with you um so i think i think uh send me another send me an email or a request however you did last time or a message and um i'll be sure to respond to you um obviously now it's like there's a lot i get a lot of messages coming in so but i'll look out for yours specifically and we'll set something up thank you i might um might actually go through justin on that oh okay that's probably a good idea yeah that um all the interviews we do we go through him so uh but yeah we understand you've been very busy but we've certainly got a lot of requests for you you're like you're definitely our number one requested um well i'm honored thanks man i appreciate it and uh and keep up the good work with what you've been doing you've been doing a lot of great work and you were you at the sermon on the mount yeah i was actually i think i got a chance to to meet you at that point um but i i saw pictures of you there it's like oh man i wanted to to meet now but here we are now getting even more time to talk because at the time i probably would have been able to really talk to you then because it was just crazy and freezing and uh all sorts of nuttiness but we we made it through you watched the first episode oh yes what do you think oh yeah that was you know watch i watched it again last night well i watched it again um and i think it's my favorite episode the series i fee i've seen a few people say that i think uh it's it it i i knew it was really going to kick things off but i didn't realize i saw it last night for the first time with everybody else and i didn't i wasn't expecting to it exceeded my expectations i had no idea that was how it was going to turn out so i'm i'm really really happy about it so i'm glad you watched i'm glad you checked it out and um yeah thanks for coming on man and uh yeah i'll uh i look forward to hearing from justin and figuring it out with you uh when we can sit down together yeah sounds good well thank you thank you yes you too and i'll speak to you soon thank you talk to you soon bye see ya that was cool been a while i've been trying to talk to noah but it's just been nuts uh let's see oh here's somebody familiar it's in the request list see who this is let's see who this is uh-oh what's going on there where are we what are we doing what are we looking at there he is jonathan turn the other way hey how are you i can't hear you how are you bud i'm good how about now turn your volume up is your volume even better yes got you um congratulations on everything you know uh we've been joking about pilots airing on different planets and everything else then it's it's beyond that i'm so proud of you um thank you man and uh just blown away by the by the first episode last night so what i wanted to ask you was having and and thank you for for taking the request brother of course how am i not going to take a request from moses i mean jesus and moses you know anybody who doesn't recognize stelia right now he played moses in season one so this is a rare treat i i'm so excited that you're here i miss you man no miss you too man the treat and the any the privilege is all mine thank you um so having having done obviously um the short that we did together and and having yes sir having seen some of your process and now having senior in season two um obviously dallas's being protestant is slightly more evangelical in his story telling um you've spoken often about your walk your faith you've described yourself as a born-again catholic if you will in some interviews yes what i want to know is and everybody has a different process but are you given any creative input are there opportunities that have happened over the two seasons where um you you've huddled with dallas and said you know i think jesus would do something different here or i i don't really see this going this way are you given any creative input at all and obviously if you can't answer that i completely understand and respect that no absolutely um and i think and you probably know this more than me uh having worked on more projects with dallas than i ever have it's been it's been a a few with me even though now and we're we're a number of episodes in but um dallas is extremely open when it comes to uh collaboration um and not just with me but i've seen him with with uh with everybody that he's worked with um that's one of his strengths uh one of the many strengths that he has as a director is being open to his cast and and and our artistic input and um so there i there probably were a couple of moments where i didn't quite understand his vision and i had a very specific idea about how i wanted to approach a certain scene um and i think there were times where it's like i'll have an idea and then he might not agree with maybe the you know the approach to that idea um and then he'll tell me what he's thinking as far as the bigger picture goes and then i'll have to take that into account and adjust the performance like ah okay so if i do this now in this episode then it's gonna affect this thing happening in that episode later down the road or even in another season things that i might not even be aware of so it's always this kind of give and take um but at the end of the day it's like you you feel what you feel about how the character might react um and in this case you know being jesus i i'm also taking into account um a little well a lot of my own spirituality and my own idea like you would with any character like you have your own opinions about the character and what he would do and say and think and feel and and sometimes they it may be it may gel or it may be at odds with what you feel is on the page sometimes it's like i think something is on the page i think it's it's being described in a way on the page that he wants a certain quality if by reading the script and then i when i um try to um talk that through what i realize is that even though it's written it's saying this these certain things his interpretation isn't the same as my interpretation from those words so having that dialogue having that conversation to clarify well what is the interpretation what is he actually doing here and how is he saying this because it sounds like he's saying it like this and i think it should be like this and dallas might say like no it's more like what you're saying i said oh but it reads differently on the page so a lot of the times that you know the benefit of having a director that is interested in collaborating with his actors is that you communicate a lot and um we've known each other now um seven years when when you and i first met on two thieves it's been seven years this march this past march um we we have that openness to be able to say hey dude i'm not feeling this like is he is this what's really happening or is you know and then he'll be like yes or no or whatever and usually we'll we'll come to a place where even if it's not exactly what i was thinking or exactly what he was thinking we'll come to place where we're both like all right this is the right decision for this and and we're both also you know acknowledging that like god is kind of showing us where to go and at the end of the day we just want to serve the vision that that best gets people to identify with with jesus in a way that they maybe haven't before previously it's a very long-winded answer but uh it's a big question no not at all and it doesn't surprise me at all because uh dallas is an extremely generous director definitely an actress director absolutely but i was just curious because of the tremendous humanity and relatability that you bring to playing the lord um thank you it's uncanny because it's always the way i'd seen the lord but um thank you for taking the time i'll let some other people get on here thank you very much i see your beautiful face and we'll get together in l.a thank you jonathan michaels man love you buddy and talk to you soon all right let's keep on trucking here all right this is pretty cool i think they were on a bit of a roll here uh send invites i think send invites is a list of just everybody who's a fan so i don't want to assume that that's correct oh here's the other thing okay where is it okay why is it not letting me pick that oh there we go all right i think this is valerie i think this is valerie valerie hi hi jonathan lovely to meet you you too this is amazing did you see the did you see the episode last night no we're watching it and as soon as we finish watching this oh very good very good have you finished all season one yeah we discovered it last year it was amazing oh cool awesome well thanks for popping on here so what what can i answer what burning question have do you have for me if anything well you may not have a burning question you may just be like hey what's up this is both both of those things i just would love to know maybe this is so long though maybe it's hard to answer but how how did you find the lord i'd love to know that uh it's actually that's a pretty short answer uh actually i well initially i was baptized um greek orthodox so i was raised with faith um but my faith really kicked into overdrive and i really i sort of as as some my friend steli who was just done before you um quoted from interviews uh i i i consider having had a sort of a born-again catholic uh experience in that i had a deeper conversion um three years ago in where i essentially surrendered my uh my will and my life and my work and everything every area of my life that wasn't quite committed and dedicated to um serving god i kind of just turned that over because i uh i pretty much hit rock bottom in a lot of ways um emotionally financially spiritually and i thought that was just i was just kind of you know burning uh energy and seeing nothing come from it and then once i actually committed to surrendering and just saying hey god show me what you want for my life and at this point i'm going to leave all of these anxieties all these worries all of these problems that i have i'm going to leave them with you and i'm not going to worry about them and i'm just going to trust you to take care of them and um that day uh it was like uh i literally received a miracle a financial miracle in my life that that got me i mean i had i was in debt i was like 100 bucks uh overdraft in my checking account i had no food and i didn't know how i was gonna pay and i was you know from for my bills coming up and and uh i was doing everything i could to try to like maintain control and to try to like work and create opportunities and and work side jobs and and drive ride share car and and wow handyman job like any anything you can think of i was juggling like six or seven different jobs and i realized i couldn't do it anymore and i i had no control over my life in that aspect and the minute the day that i surrendered that to god i was blessed with three checks that came in the mail that set me straight and changed my life it just changed my opinion and and um in in how i handled my life and how i handled the stress in my life and how i handled problems and anxiety and from that point i committed to never stress about the same things i was stressing about for the previous you know several nice in this case eight years that i had been in la um and uh and knowing that i was well taken care of and three months after that day um i got booked on the chosen so wow how that happened now and now look how he's using you that's amazing it's uh it's pretty i scratch my head every day valerie and thank god that um you know uh that for everything he's given me and uh you know things could change on a dime and i take nothing for granted so i'm grateful to be here and and have this opportunity to um to get to talk to folks like you and and say thank you for being a fan of the show and and for watching and for um yeah just just being a part of this whole experience for me oh man wow well i want more people to get a chance to talk to you but it is so exciting uh thank you so much and hear your heart thank you thank you thank you god bless you talk to you soon bye all right i'm going to take a sip of water here for a second let me turn the comments back on for a minute while i do that how you doing out there everybody hanging tough 284 requests remember that scene in episode 8 the chosen where where fatina's at the well and i tell her you are right you you are not you don't have a husband you've had five husbands and the man you are living with now is not your husband and she's like i see you're a prophet that's what i feel like i feel like that reaction right now it's like okay so not today satan that's what that says um happy easter again uh i created my first tick tock video i haven't posted it here yet but it's an easter themed thing and with all the posting and and running around i had to do this weekend i couldn't get it out on time but it's okay because easter lasts 50 days so uh yeah so at jonathan rooney if you want to go see a tick-tock video my first it took a lot to get me to commit to that and uh i don't know if i'll continue it i might depending on how many views it gets uh if people are interested in that sort of thing um but it's i have a hard time with tick tock it might be a generational thing i don't know all right let's uh let's see view request ah go live in a room oh what's over here oh who's this over here what's going on here let's see who might be popping on now sent the request if you sent a request check your instagram come on dude i'm talking to you you know who you are okay i'll give you a little hint if there's an opportunity to push you off a cliff i will do it that sounds terrible let me see i might have to try another one jay pick up the phone jay all right i'm off to go i'll come back to you dude i'll come back to you jordan um let's go talk to jordan all right he's gone he i didn't have to cancel he canceled himself let me try this other one about this one about this one oh there it is there we go there we are let me get up here i have sleeping kids so i'm going in the closet okay okay so i have a two-part question for you okay okay two-part question who is your favorite apostle and why is it little james see how i uh how i removed i think this was a mistake i think oh jordan it's breaking up man i'm here to stay sorry oh sorry bro i just uh oh oh dang it oh man that was that would have been a great question to answer okay i love it bro i just have to leave it like that i'm so funny let's see if she picks up now oh my gosh hi [Laughter] oh my gosh hi i'm good i'm good how are you i'm excited to get to talk to you finally i i'm so giddy i'm literally shaking right now it's okay it's all right you're with family you're with friends i know i know oh my gosh this is awesome huh um yeah and i'm still on it currently so well it takes time um they drag it out yeah of course of course well the question i wanted to ask you um so i know you've played jesus in a lot of different productions and shows so like the last days the living stations the chosen um so the question i kind of wanted to ask you is how do you mentally and spiritually prepare yourself to portray jesus since you played them in like so many things and then is it hard for you so like once the director yells cut or the production is over is it hard for you to go back to it's odd to say this work does it offer you to go back to being normal because the holy spirit kind of i know it really moves on you when you play so i just yeah that's a great question thank you for asking um so the preparation for me well the whole playing jesus so yes so i originally first played jesus for um a traveling one woman show that had a video element so my creative partner maria vargo who is the founder of gk chesterton entertainment she and i met eight years ago um when she was doing this one woman show about saint faustina and divine mercy and so i i played jesus um so she was her on stage and then behind her was this giant screen and then a couple of basic very simplified set pieces and some lights and she would travel from place to place uh church to church school to school wherever whoever was putting up the money to to bring this show to their community um it would just be her and an assistant and this equipment and and the show was like 90 minutes or something and so she would be acting with all these other actors but they were all on screen behind her in this pre-taped format so playing jesus in the divine mercy story involved like recreating that image behind me and having uh just doing these scenes we filmed for three days and so um so that was my first time ever playing jesus so going and eventually they're going to release i think a film of of that with me playing jesus in that and so i i look at some of it now well i don't know if i'm as excited as you might be because i look at it now i wanted to see it so it's in the very early stages of my development i had never done it before but i i did pick to use the accent i wanted to use my dad's accent my aunt with a mix of the two accents my aunt's from palestine my father's from egypt and uh and so i was kind of figuring it out and then six months later i did the film with stelio who was just on with dallas my first film with dallas called the two thieves and i was still kind of like figuring it out and then as i started to go forward with dallas he started figuring out the character jesus and and the the personality and and we talked a little bit about it on the video we just released uh when we were in in nashville over the weekend doing uh the huckabee show and and so by the time i think the last project i did for dallas was in 2017 and i think by that point the version that you all see in the chosen now was pretty much formed by that point so it was like a three four year process three and a half year process and then now playing him in all these other scenarios uh and and with much more material um i i i can certainly imagine that if people look at season one and then they look at season seven when we get to it god willing um there might be more development there might be more slightly subtle changes that happen over the course of the person just an actor just kind of settling into the character um that said one coming out of it um i think for me it's not it's not like i'm playing something that is so jesus is impossible to identify with absolutely but what i bring what i know that i can bring to it is my own humanity so for me coming out of my own humanity isn't too difficult um okay uh the accent dropping the accent that that's very easy to do and then when i get into it it's a little harder to kind of jump back into it because it's it's the mouth works very differently when you saying words with that with that accent than it does speaking english um of course of course but um yeah i think i think i i sort of it becomes like the work becomes it's a sort of a prayer and then when i'm not doing it it's like i've finished the prayer for now and then i'll come back to it so it's not like if i was to play like some sort of a possessed person or somebody that was like kind of broken or in some way uh or like a killer i played those as well uh spoiler look folks i played killers and i might play more at some point right right all depends on the material so um but at the end of the day you know i'm an actor i do different roles some roles are harder to get out of than others um fortunately i think because jesus is so positive and so uh uh there's so much love and compassion it's like there's you kind of want to stay in that mind space then you do get out of it you know so getting out of it is not really a thing just like okay i do there's just less people for me to love in the context of my day-to-day life than on a film set with all these other things so you're using your you're using much less energy so it's it's it's easier to get out of than it is to get into if that makes sense that that does and thank you so much i wanted to say one final thing to you if i can because i know you're trying to get other people on sure but i i've posted this to you a lot and i've i've like made it public on instagram but honestly for me i just want to tell you thank you um you really have been the catalyst since i kind of started my catholicism journey um you were the first person that kind of got me started on it um and i really want to thank you for your yes to god back in march because honestly if you wouldn't have given god your yes back in march to start praying online i wouldn't be doing what i'm doing online like doing rotaries in the dmc and rca and and just the prayer communities i've i've i've um come into the family the second family i called my friends i've i've grown into you really you really were that person that kind of pushed me to be like hey you know actually do some research really look into catholicism and just you're really awesome for that and i just honestly from the bottom of my heart thank you so much for teaching this you know non-denominational christian that catholics are some of the coolest people in the world you all have so much history and so much knowledge and i'm i'm slowly still learning a lot of it um so just honestly for me thank you so much and thank you for praying for me um you awesome jonathan and i'm definitely praying for you so thank you so so much thank you this is all about the glory of god and and it's like i i the only credit i will take is that i said yes and somebody saw me say yes like yourself and the spirit put that in you and you decided to check it out and see if it felt truthful to you and if it feels truthful to you you went for it and when i got the note that piper who's once again planning to see piper's drawing is right there i just got it back today it looks amazing uh piper awesome i got a note saying piper joined an order and that you were you joined rcia to start your journey officially and it it made it brought tears to my eyes so i was just so oh yeah i didn't mean to make you no it was beautiful it was it was a good thing and i i just thought and some of my cast mates were there they're like hey there's somebody drop this off you i think you should read it i'm like okay because you don't you never know what's going to be in a note like that well interesting when somebody when they say so a fan gave you a note i'm like okay you're like well we you know it was vetted to make sure it was okay and i'm like i once i read i was like ah man that just really got me here so god bless you on your journey um i'll be continue to praying to pray for you and um and uh yeah and i'm sure i'll see you uh uh on one of the pages you know someone thought just one final thing i'm gonna let you go your st patrick's day picture with rogue and the st patrick's prayer card yeah why did everybody when you post that immediately messaged me like did you send jonathan to grogu to let everybody know no i am where is he he's i have i have a cup i bought a few of them there's like one of them somewhere i have a lot of them there you go that's awesome beautiful rocco will may the force be with you and may the holy spirit and peace be with you thank you again so so much my pleasure take care of yourself talk to you soon you too bye bye bye that was awesome just want to check my uh let me just check here no jordan i can't uh it's not letting me uh pick you up again bro sorry bro sorry oh well um [Music] here's another person i think i might have connected with once before anusha hello how are you how are you how are you doing so good to see you you know i had my divine message here and i just said jesus i trust in you if i meant to go on with you because the odds were not in my favor well you were at the top of the list there and i said how can i not say hello thank you so much for joining thank you for being here oh thank you for having me on let's just see get the chance because of covid and um i wrote a prayer for you i hope you liked it um the small prayer that i wrote and um is it where did you send it it went through the jonathan ruby fan page and you re reposted it actually but that's okay oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yes yes thank you thank you forgive me i there's i'm i'm still kind of coming down from the last uh several months and uh it's it's been a whirlwind but i'm glad you're here and you've been so lovely in your support and encouragement and thank you for everything uh thank you uh you have no idea the the uh the um the wildfire effect you have had on people and uh i wanted to mention the scene i watched episode one and the scene of the tilling of the fields i've been telling everyone about it i thought that was really beautifully metaphorical of dallas to actually show this um planting of seeds and the reaping of the harvest that's going to come from season two and beyond i love that symbolism of that it was just beautiful okay so my question is not i was i had all these holy questions to ask you i'm not doing that what do you really want to know okay so you know i think you know i'm a librarian right i don't know if you know you know but i'm a librarian yeah okay yeah so um are you in the library now i am this is my kingdom this is my domain and this is my kingdom and are you working i am i am oh my goodness do they know what you're doing right now do they know you're shirking your librarian duties to be here talking to some dude is an actor this is funny and this is this is part of the new evangelization you have to go into the deep and be bold that's it this is what i have learned from you this is what i've learned from you um so i have to ask you because this has been like burning a hole in my brain um i'm getting it's a triple barrel question so okay i hope you're ready um if you were stranded on a deserted island what three books would you take what three items of food would you take and what t-shirt would you take that's a that's a tough one can i narrow it down to one of each yes for the sake of for the sake of brevity yes uh food t-shirt and book well i'd have to bring a bible for sure and uh probably this is one of my favorites right now bishop baron's bible it just yep beautiful pictures explanation uh explanations uh food stake yeah okay go with the protein go with the protein steak yeah and and what was the what was the third a book no i said the book yeah what was the other t-shirt t-shirt t-shirt because we know you oh because you know you've got a good collection you've got a really good collection i got a good collection this is an old one this is a this is a percussion i've actually had this since i was in middle school if you believe it i it's it's crazy um i think my shroud of turn t-shirt that's one of my favorite t-shirts yes yes yes it's just so kind of like yeah i think yeah i think that's what i would do i'll also give you a dessert yes chocolate i'd have to bring chocolate okay and if we're counting coffee as a food i'll put that in there so i'll give you three of the food the other ones there's too many other ones to choose from between the books and the shirts there's there's a lot of good ones but yeah but thank you so much for saying hello it's lovely to get to talk to you in person and i'm sure i'll be praying with you guys on the fan page at some point i'm looking forward we're consistently praying for your little daily prayers every day not just for you in the chosen but also that you're spiritually sustained throughout this and i hope you had a wonderful beautiful holy easter thank you thank you i did it was very very blessed and and likewise for you and everyone watching so thank you so much awesome i'll show you around if you have a visit here yeah i come out my library in australia yeah if they let us americans in there we'll be all right of course i'll make it happen fingers crossed all right take care god bless you so much thank you bye it's 709 pacific i think i can maybe try to squeeze in one or two more and uh this has gone pretty well i think i'm really excited about how this is gone and i might just have to do more of these um where is it okay see them all and come on pressing it okay see if this guy's around let's see if he picks up see if he picks up dude that'd be joey hey hi joey hi i'm kind of worried that you selected i'm me to like mix it up you know and uh and get a variety of people and faces some people i know some people i don't so uh how are you thanks for uh for taking the time to be here oh thank you thank you for choosing me and i just want to say someone said it earlier but uh thank you for saying yes i'm a big fan of the chosen big fan of your work and it really helps uh with my bible study because it's hard to like it's hard to for me it's hard to personalize the characters the different characters like peter john even jesus are the like person and with the chosen you really help bring the bible to life and it just really helps and like i love how they portray matthew john especially this last episode of the beginning like the contrast from the beginning and then you bring it back in the end when you're reading uh when you're reading genesis in the beginning and stuff and contrasting it so it's just it's just amazing and it's a huge blessing so just thank you for all your work and thank you for that all you do you're tremendous thank you man thank you i'm so lucky to have such wonderful writers and a director and just a team that just um to comes together to make uh such an extraordinary piece of uh work that we get to do as as actors so i'm humbled and and honored and and thank you for your for very kind words i appreciate everything is there any kind of question you might have had uh if you're not it's okay a couple of couple questions sure um one question is uh how many seasons is it going to be and then the second question is what's been the biggest challenge for you seven seasons is the plan that's the uh seven seasons and the biggest challenge um i think is is not thinking that it's getting in my own head about whether or not i'm worthy enough to be doing what i'm doing and playing jesus because it's jesus and it's people's connection to the most personal spiritual connection they have uh and i'm kind of becoming the face of that for a lot of people and and that can be really daunting um and so not letting the the the dialogue the the enemies dialogue kind of get in my head and and question it i have to remind myself and and people fortunately are kind enough to remind me that um i was selected to do this for a specific reason and as i look back on my own journey in my own faith uh it feels like god has certainly brought me through this to to learn a lot more about myself and to um to be able to um create this portrait that for whatever reason um he wants me to create and the give people this um as part of my work in being able to allow people to connect and relate more closely to him so um i have to honor that it's me that was given the opportunity to do this and not another actor um so i try not to question it so much and uh and just be grateful and and thank him for uh allowing me to do what i love to do for this character which has been my my favorite character i've ever played so what you're doing you're doing a fantastic job portraying it in my opinion like the way thank you man responding like just the way look at like when someone like when you feel that man's i forgot his name but when he killed the man not you but the character right yeah when he stands leg and you're just looking at him with such peace and love like you portrayed it like perfectly so you're doing an awesome job with that and you had mentioned that you learned uh something like you've been learning more about yourself in this process what what is what have you learned about yourself in this process um i think uh and i'm i'm just concerned i don't want to get cut off here for the whole thing but um i think uh i'll try to make this brief um i think it's just it's just try it's been learning to trust myself and my relationship with god and that god is is looking out for me so um yeah i think that's the biggest thing awesome well thank you joey thank you appreciate it god bless all right you take care god bless and speak to you soon bye oh i lost the light that's what happened okay well uh we're about an hour in and i don't want this to just get cut off so i'm going to sign off uh now in the meantime and say thank you so so much i'm sorry for all of you who are um waiting that i couldn't get to but um maybe i'll try to make uh a thing you know every every certain milestone maybe every 5 000 people or something i'll i'll do another one of these um and uh yeah i'll figure out a reason to do this stuff more often because this is pretty cool um thank you so much thank you for for being such a supporter of of my work and a fan of the show um uh we couldn't do any of this without you as you well know um your financial contributions to the chosen um to my ministry to gk chesterton entertainment uh again if you want to watch the passion play we're streaming it there at gkce.org all of all of the everything that you guys have put into to supporting all of these arts ministries is uh i think really helping to give people hope and and encouragement at a time where the culture is just so um very very uh rooted in things that are not glorifying god so thank you god bless you happy easter and uh i'll see you sooner than you think all right

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Published: Fri Jul 16 2021