{"id":44973,"date":"2021-08-11T16:56:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T14:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2021\/08\/11\/actor-and-director-of-the-chosen-meet-pope-francis-at-the-vatican\/"},"modified":"2021-08-11T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T14:56:00","slug":"actor-and-director-of-the-chosen-meet-pope-francis-at-the-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2021\/08\/11\/actor-and-director-of-the-chosen-meet-pope-francis-at-the-vatican\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor and director of \u201cThe Chosen\u201d meet Pope Francis at the Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Jonathan Roumie and Director Dallas Jenkins were among the crowd at the Pope's General Audience in Paul VI Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Roumie plays Jesus Christ in \u201cThe Chosen,\u201d a multi-season series directed by Jenkins.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When it was their turn to greet the Pope, Roumie asked Pope Francis to bless some rosaries. Then the actor assured him of his prayers.<\/p>\n<p><em>-\u201cI don't speak a lot of Spanish, but I pray for you all the time.\u201d<br \/>\n-\u201cThank you very much.\u201d<br \/>\n-\u201cEvery day. Every day.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A smile materialized on the Pope's face when Roumie told him of his role as Jesus in \u201cThe Chosen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>-\u201cI have the honor of playing the role of Jesus in the TV series, 'The Chosen.'\u201d<br \/>\n-\u201cWell, may you imitate Him, may you find Him, and may He make you happy.\u201d<br \/>\n-\u201cThank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then the series director Dallas Jenkins introduced himself, and the Pope couldn't hold back his sense of humor.<\/p>\n<p><em>-\u201cThis is Jesus. You are Judas?\u201d<br \/>\n-\u201cYes- No! No no no.\u201d<br \/>\n(laugh)<br \/>\n-\u201cI am Protestant, but I am making a show for everyone who loves Jesus.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chosen\u201d is the largest crowd-funded media project of its kind, and it's also the first multi-season series about the life of Jesus.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>CT<\/p>\n<p>VM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 11, 2021. Actor Jonathan Roumie plays Jesus Christ in the TV series directed by Dallas Jenkins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ut4n0LUnb1w","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bthechoseneng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bthechosenint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}