The Chosen cast roundtable: The spiritual backstory

you're crazy you know that yeah it's like when you realize that history is not just written in a book it's like people lived that some of you have talked about how I you know I've become more spiritually connected from doing this Shore I've learned more about the Gospels from this show talk about that a little bit I don't know how you guys felt but for me I genuinely felt like everything about this production from being on set to reading the script to getting to know everybody while we were shooting it I felt like I was actually living in those times interacting with the people of those times for me but my background has always been Christian my grandfather was a priest but this being around him being in this project was very similar feeling wise to what being around him was as far as feeling spiritually connected for me and it kind of brought all that together and so I was like wow I was like this is like this is really special not only are the people awesome but there's something really pleased with what we're doing here it was almost like I was living a double life like when I was doing Zebedee and I'm back at Nick with the hotel with you guys and then I felt like you guys really were my sons in like another dimension almost like this is what the family would be like so this has been an amazing amazing experience and what what people are seeing on screen is only I feel like half of what we experienced when we were actually doing it there's like there's also an aspect to what I learnt as well as on and this is great you know for people watching it who who might you know like myself who grew up sort of Greek Orthodox but you sort of especially a lot of people get that thing where they separate it just becomes religious and then that sort of becomes a little bit sort of I don't know it becomes a little rigid and then watching how the how this TV show how it portrays not only Jesus but also his followers there was something practical about it the way he talks is a really cool quote about look at the flowers how they don't sort of toil or and it's that connection to I guess the world and and that aspect of it brought back the practical aspect of spirituality for me because I always saw religion as this sort of very rigid structure the way that you've made this more real the way that the show has made it more real was eye-opening to me because that's how it would have that's how it was done back then that's what that's what he was trying to do well and he came into a very very extraordinarily rigid structure I think that's what's also very relatable to today whereas when you see certain religious structures that are obsessed with the law or with the rigidity of it and they lose the relationship and Jesus was speaking against that he kept saying yeah yeah the rules are good they're had they're there to help you but you're you're using them and you're manipulating them and you're using them as a weapon you lose I thought I did you teach answer to me and I'm about breaking all that down and breaking down those barriers and so we we've we've seen a lot of people who grew up in a rigid religious structure who have seen the show and felt almost the freedom or the permission to now see God in a much more personal way and see the scripture is much more personally and spiritually than as a tool in a building that they have to behave to access it won't be all about Mountains or temples soon just the heart I had never before working on the show had a kind of inside track in a personal way into that kind of aspect of of religion you know the characters were character you know we're really kind of one-dimensional maybe in maybe that's just the representation the way that we've seen them in other movies or in other things or whatever but then it was really being like oh you know there's nothing statuesque about loading your camping gear up into a thing you know what I mean it's like like they did that you slept outside like these people dealt with the bugs the way we dealt with the bugs and so so like there's nothing there's no that they don't put that in the statue you know in the one dimensional kind of thing it's like people were people and people have always been people and so the kind of things that you have to deal with with the elements with the institutions around these people with the government everything it's like dad I was like Oh like it just opened my eyes it's like when you realize that history is not just written in a book it's like people lived that that was real to them and it didn't just go away the second you read the sentence and it was gone it was like no that was like you know unev enter in so that kind of stuff to me was was really special to to be a part of and to find out yeah

Channel: The Chosen

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Length: 5min 21sec (321 seconds)

Published: Tue May 26 2020