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Still can’t believe this happened: 😱 'The Chosen' Star Jonathan Roumie Takes Selfie with Pope Leo XIV people.com/the-chosen-sta… @people

How is your Lent going so far?? #StayPrayedUp

@argus03 Actually they’re friends! It was great! 😉

@JonathanRoumie saw you also on the VIEW which, of course, was a good idea, but I can only imagine how they mocked you once you were off stage.

Thanks for having us guys! 🙏🏽💜💪🏽

Impact is everything! A snippet of my convo w @frmikeschmitz on my(and Ascension’s😉) YouTube channel! It’s been a profound blessing to witness the power of storytelling and cinema on people’s spiritual lives, including my own! 🎬🙏🏽✝️🥰 Check out our full conversation 🔗:The Cost of Playing Jesus in The Chosen | Jonathan Roumie & Fr. Mike Schmitz - YouTube (m.youtube.com/watch?v=tLHZ1q…)

Wonderful convo with Fr. Mike Schmitz…Full convo link below!

Thanks Entertainment Weekly for this nice piece about my appeThe Viewn The View yesterday. Revival is happening in our lifetime, thanks be to God. 📷📷📷 tinyurl.com/54bh62kb

I’m consistently treated like gold when I get to visit the ladies of @TheView! Thank you for always making me feel at home! 🙏🏽♥️

The entire text below, of @Pontifex Pope Leo XIV's address to filmmakers, actors and executives at the Vatican earlier. What an amazing charge given to those of us working in the industry of cinema. I pray all who were in attendance will let these words sink deep into their bones and aspire to create work that examines the human condition in a way that creates community using light and hope, rather than darkness and despair. Profoundly encouraging and inspiring... Thank you, Pope Leo. 🙏🏽 --- Dear brothers and sisters, Although cinema is now over a century old, it is still a young, dreamlike and somewhat restless art form. It will soon celebrate its 130th anniversary, counting from the first public screening by the Lumiere brothers in Paris on 28 December 1895. From the outset, cinema was as a play of light and shadow, designed to amuse and impress. However, these visual effects soon succeeded in conveying much deeper realities, eventually becoming an expression of the desire to contemplate and understand life, to recount its greatness and fragility and to portray the longing for infinity. Dear friends, I am happy to greet and welcome you. I also express my gratitude for what cinema represents: a popular art in the noblest sense, intended for and accessible to all. It is wonderful to see that when the magic light of cinema illuminates the darkness, it simultaneously ignites the eyes of the soul. Indeed, cinema combines what appears to be mere entertainment with the narrative of the human person’s spiritual adventure. One of cinema’s most valuable contributions is helping audiences consider their own lives, look at the complexity of their experiences with new eyes and examine the world as if for the first time., In doing so, they rediscover a portion of the hope that is essential for humanity to live to the fullest. I find comfort in the thought that cinema is not just moving pictures; it sets hope in motion. Entering a cinema is like crossing a threshold. In the darkness and silence, vision becomes sharper, the heart opens up, and the mind becomes receptive to things not yet imagined. In reality, you know that your art form requires concentration. Through your productions, you connect with people who are looking for entertainment, as well as those who carry within their hearts a sense of restlessness and are looking for meaning, justice and beauty. We live in an age where digital screens are always on. There is a constant flow of information. However, cinema is much more than just a screen; it is an intersection of desires, memories and questions. It is a sensory journey in which light pierces the darkness and words meet silence. As the plot unfolds, our mind is educated, our imagination broadens, and even pain can find new meaning. Cultural facilities, such as cinemas and theaters, are the beating hearts of our communities because they contribute to making them more human. If a city is alive, it is thanks in part to its cultural spaces. We must inhabit these spaces and build relationships within them, day after day. Nonetheless, cinemas are experiencing a troubling decline, with many being removed from cities and neighborhoods. More than a few people are saying that the art of cinema and the cinematic experience are in danger. I urge institutions not to give up but to cooperate in affirming the social and cultural value of this activity. The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us and sometimes even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express. In this Jubilee Year, the Church invites us to journey towards hope. Your presence here from so many different countries, and your artistic work in particular, is a shining example. Like so many others who come to Rome from all over the world, you too are on a journey as pilgrims of the imagination, seekers of meaning, narrators of hope and heralds of humanity. Your journey is not measured in kilometers but in images, words, emotions, shared memories and collective desires. You navigate this pilgrimage into the mystery of human experience with a penetrating gaze that is capable of recognizing beauty even in the depths of pain, and of discerning hope in the tragedy of violence and war. The Church esteems you for your work with light and time, with faces and landscapes, with words and silence. Pope Saint Paul VI once spoke to artists, saying: “If you are friends of genuine art, you are our friends,” recalling that “this world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair [Address of Pope Paul VI to Artists, 8 December 1965]. I wish to renew this friendship because cinema is a workshop of hope, a place where people can once again find themselves and their purpose. Perhaps we could bear in mind the words of David W. Griffith, one of the great pioneers of the seventh art. He once said, “What the modern movie lacks is beauty, the beauty of the moving wind in the trees.” His reference to the wind cannot but remind us of a passage from John’s Gospel: “The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit” [3:8]. In this regard, dear seasoned and novice filmmakers, I invite you to make cinema an art of the Spirit. In the present era, there is a need for witnesses of hope, beauty and truth. You can fulfill this role through your artistic work. Good cinema and those who create and star in it have the power to recover the authenticity of imagery in order to safeguard and promote human dignity. Do not be afraid to confront the world’s wounds. Violence, poverty, exile, loneliness, addiction and forgotten wars are issues that need to be acknowledged and narrated. Good cinema does not exploit pain; it recognizes and explores it. This is what all the great directors have done. Giving voice to the complex, contradictory and sometimes dark feelings that dwell in the human heart is an act of love. Art must not shy away from the mystery of frailty; it must engage with it and know how to remain before it. Without being didactic, authentically artistic forms of cinema possess the capacity to educate the audience’s gaze. In conclusion, filmmaking is a communal effort, a collective endeavor in which no one is self-sufficient. While everyone recognizes the skill of the director and the genius of the actors, a film would be impossible without the quiet dedication of hundreds of other professionals including assistants, runners, prop masters, electricians, sound engineers, equipment technicians, makeup artists, hairstylists, costume designers, location managers, casting directors, special effects technicians and producers. Every voice, every gesture and every skill contributes to a work that can only exist as a whole. In an age of exaggerated and confrontational personalities, you demonstrate that creating a quality film requires dedication and talent. Thanks to the gifts and qualities of those whom you work alongside, everyone can make their unique charisma shine in a collaborative and fraternal atmosphere. May your cinema always be a meeting place and a home for those seeking meaning and a language of peace. May it never lose its capacity to amaze and even continue to offer us a glimpse, however small, of the mystery of God.

Recovering from demon-hunting on All Hallow’s Eve (yes it’s a Catholic tradition) as #JohnWick. Happy Feast of All Saints! #JonathanRoumie #KeanuStuntDouble #DontTouchMyDog

Our powerful animated film is making an impact around the world and picking up accolades along the way. If you haven’t seen “The21” check it out: The21Film.com.

Full circle with this one! Hear me voicing "Jesus" in The Chosen Adventures - streaming NOW on Prime Video!! 🤩🙌🏽 youtu.be/C_DTl2ERz3c?si… via @YouTube ADULTS WILL LOVE THIS TOO!! 🥰

Saturday = cartoons! 🤩🥳
But parents, you don’t have to wait — ALL episodes of Season One of @TheChosenAdventures are streaming NOW on @PrimeVideo! 🤓✨ I’m back as Jesus 🙌 and promise it’s as fun for adults as it is for kids.
Join the adventure! 🎬 #TheChosenAdventures

RIP Diane Keaton. Legend.

Train Like Jesus…with ME! — The Chosen's Jonathan Roumie Shows The Workout He Hits To Play Jesus … youtu.be/u2YguY-soCs?si… via @YouTube @MensHealthMag

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The weight continues… No turning back. Divine destiny awaits our Hero of Heroes…⚔️🙏🏽♥️😇 #PrayForUs @thechosentv #Season5 #amazonprimevídeo

@riaanpretorius @thechosentv Thanks brother 🙏🏽

@GregBruniGB @thechosentv Thankfully, the weight is anchored in the Light, and as such is borne by Christ with me! RIP Heath…he was a legend. 🙏🏽♥️

@JonathanRoumie @thechosentv I know Heath Ledger had a tremendous mental weight when playing the Joker. I can't imagine what Jonathan Roumie must go through carrying the weight of playing Jesus Christ for so long.

@faandar @thechosentv 😱😬🙏🏽♥️

@JonathanRoumie @thechosentv It is now impossible for me to perform a Lectio Divina without seeing your face.

@draz5 @thechosentv 🙏🏽♥️

@JonathanRoumie @thechosentv You're agony in the garden scenes were magnificently done. Thank you for bringing Christ's turmoil so vividly to life.