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March 20, 2025 14 mins

Jonathan Roumie, Jesus from “The Chosen” joins us to preview season five release in theaters nationwide on March 28th.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on Your Morning Show with Michael Del Choano.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's the most watched show in the world, hands down,
two hundred and fifty million viewers. I am a huge
fan from the Hallow app as well as his portrayal
of Lonnie Frisbee in The Jesus Revolution and of course
Jesus in The Chosen getting ready to start its fifth season.
You're lucky to be listening right now as we say

(00:25):
hello to Jonathan Roomy Jonathan, So great to meet you morning.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Michael, how are you. I'm doing wonderful.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
We pray together a lot on the Hollowed app, so
I feel like I know you. You know, if we had
set out for a goal and we all have this commission,
go forth and do all nations and make disciples of
all men. I was sitting here thinking before you came
on with two hundred and fifty million viewers and translated

(00:52):
I don't know, six hundred subtitled languages, one hundred dubbed languages.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
We're working forwards.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Six hundred translated in one hundred languages currently, but the
goal ultimately is to get to six hundred languages. Who
we are currently, we're currently the most translated television show
in history.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Who knew?

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Who knew a great television show could fulfill the great
commission We're.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Trying, man, you know, that's we feel very passionate about
that fact, to spread this story to every corner of
the globe. And we actually know for a fact that
the early on the show, when we were just streaming
on our own native app, the show was downloaded in

(01:35):
every country on the planet, including Antarctica.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
So there's somebody in a leather station probably hanging.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Out in the snow watching episodes of The Chosen, you know,
one of the it's one of the great success stories ever.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
But I mean to think this is an indie project.
I mean, what's the message that sends to the industry too.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Let alone the way it's been a lot of folks
Silver and Hollywood have been quite baffled about how we've
pulled this off and continue to pull it off. But
we've have the greatest fans in the world, and we're
telling the greatest story in the world. So it kind
of makes for you know, an obvious result with how
it's been received, so kind of an brainer.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
So what has this done to your life?

Speaker 2 (02:20):
I mean, I know, you know, we breathe in faith,
through our relationship with God, through His living Word, through
transforming and not conforming all those buzzwords and things we
talk about, and then this happens to you. It's got
to be very rewarding from a from a standpoint of
living your faith. But it's I mean, this is an

(02:41):
extraordinary amount of fame too that is often warned about
in the Bible.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
You know, I think the Lord knew what he was
doing in allowing me to struggle for twenty years as
an actor before actually finding true true you know, career,
your success with this project, and and then to to
be able to sit down and talk about this role, uh,

(03:10):
with the widest variety and the the i'd say, the
the most interesting gamut of shows from you know, doing
Tucker Carlson one day and then The View the next day,
and then Jimmy Fallon just two days ago. It's been

(03:30):
it's been an extraordinary adventure.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
And I'm just uh and now and now and now
your morning show is it spirals down?

Speaker 3 (03:37):
All right?

Speaker 4 (03:37):
John Jonathan Man, You're awesome. I mean, like people need
to hear what you're saying to them and and the
voice that you provide for them, and thank you all
part of it.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
So thank you for having me listen. Look, I know
my place in the kingdom. I know, Jonathan Rumy, I
loved you by the way in Jesus Revolution.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Did that? Did that surprise you? What a you know?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Because it was such a sweet and power I always
say this, we've gotten away from testimonials. I love the
old man in the Bible. They're all bickering and fighting
politically and this and that, and he's like, I don't
know who he is. All I know is I was blind.
And now I see we've gotten away from testimonials. And
that was a powerful testimony in the Jesus Revolution at

(04:21):
a time we're on the brink of a cultural shift
and maybe even revival and revolution.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
And your role in that, oh my, you were terrific.
Thank you so much for me.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
That was such a beautiful story and the potency of it.
And I agree with you, Michael, I think we are
on the cusp of another revival, especially in culture and media,
and it's something that I think people have been praying.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
For and.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
It's really taking shape in so many ways now where
where you see other celebrities like that have been in
the secular side of business their entire career are now
stepping forth in faith, and hopefully, you know, this is
something that is just trending upward and more people will

(05:17):
feel compelled to do.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
I mean, it's funny.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
I was just going to say, it's definitely happening. I
have children. I have twenty year old daughters that are
at university sophomore year. I've got a son graduate high school. Obviously,
I've been born again since the tail end of the
Jesus Movement in nineteen seventy eight. My number one priority
was my marriage because I knew that I can never
love my kids more than I love their mother, and

(05:40):
then they were my second priority. Obviously them having a
heart for God and having a personal relationship with Him
was my greatest dream. I did the best to live
an example. I guess I gave some pretty heady, long
Bible studies at a premature two eat end of an
age that bore them step. But it didn't matter what
we did. There was just a measure of faith this

(06:00):
young generation's been born with. And it gives me pause too,
because it makes me wonder what God's preparing for them
to live. But I'm noticing there's something different in this
young generation, Jonathan, and I think that's a lot of
what you know, us older baby boomers are loving the
chosen and we're embracing it, but so are the young people.

(06:21):
For such a time as this does this seem to
be the right message in vehicle.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
There's something bruin, isn't there. That's I mean, that's amazing
to hear and so encouraging. Michael, Thank you for sharing
that with me. And I agree with you. You know,
I have younger nephews that that are our teenagers now,
and there is a predisposition to faith and to God
that they possessed that even that.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
I didn't even have it at that level.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
And you know, you wonder that when the pendulum swings
so far in one direction for the other way, can
it not ultimately return back to that same that the
original direction. And you know faith, if faith with the
Jesus Revolution was an example of faith in one direction
in an extreme sense, in a culture wide capacity in

(07:09):
the seventies, after having swung so far away from that.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Up in the last twenty years now, I.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
Think we see this dependulum swinging back the other way,
and I think ultimately, you know, people must return to
God with their whole hearts, because that's what's asked of
us as a race, as a creation.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
And if the seventies proves anything, it was across denominations.
I mean, it was a cultural movement from the hippie
movement became a cultural revolution, then the spiritual revival. My
grandmother got saved through the charismatic movement in the Catholic Church.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Then it comes back.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Through me and a coach by way of Assemblies of God.
I mean, it was a cross denomination. It was cultural
leading to a spiritual revival. I don't know that we've
reached spiritual revival, but boy, it's bubbling and brewing, and
the role that you're playing in that. Jonathan Rumy's joining
us and again we're going to get to the Chosen
season five, but real quickly. Everybody knows you play Jesus.

(08:10):
Everybody knows your work and hollowed in the app the
movie Jesus Revolution. What's your personal walk? How did you
get from the streets in New York to the Kingdom
of God. Well, I was baptized Greek Orthodox as a
baby in New York City, and then when we moved
out to the suburbs of New York. We you know,

(08:32):
finding a Greek Orthodox church was difficult, a little difficult. Yeah,
So my father, being a Christian from Egypt, having gone
to Catholic school as the only option really for Christians
in Egypt, he decided that, you know, there was a
Catholic church just down the street. He was well familiar

(08:53):
with the format of the masses and practicing of the
faith to an extent. My mother from Ireland is Roman Catholics,
so it just seemed like a natural fit. There wasn't
any hemming and hawing or any We didn't have to
go through any kind of conversion. The baptisms are recognized
by the churches, so we just started going to Catholic church.

(09:15):
I made my first communion and my confirmation as a Catholic.
And you know, as I got into my teens and
then my twenties and watched my cousins in the Orthodox
faith start to get married, and really for me was
kind of a return to the culture of Orthodoxy. As
much as romantic as it is, as beautiful as it is,

(09:39):
as sacred the liturgies are, and as unique as it is,
I never felt God pulling me back to the Orthodox Church.
I just sort of felt like, no, I think I'm good,
and I just kind of hung in there. And obviously,
once I left New York to move to LA to

(10:00):
pursue acting full time, the first thing I did was
was find the church, and I think my faith, funny enough,
really started to grow in Los Angeles, where it's not.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
Part of the culture right really, you know, like you
find it. The people that go to church are serious
about church, and so I found the community there and
my faith continued to grow, and I started an entertainment
ministry ultimately in Beverly Hills, which which ran for about
seven years. And all that time I struggled to work

(10:31):
as an actor until I hit The Chosen and then
things really changed.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Funny how you get your faith in line, you focus
on God, get everything straight. Then he starts doing the
heavy lifting in life, and now you're a household name.
Jonathan Rumy is Jesus in The Chosen Season five, coming
the Last Supper.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
That's going to get dramatic. What I love is we.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Talk about denominations, we talk about political differences in partisanship.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
In this story, we avoid all that.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
The focus gets on Jesus from the perspective of the Apostles.
They think they're getting a king. Something else is brewing.
This is a magical season and it all starts in theaters.
That's different.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Yeah, yeah, we uh well, we dare to be different.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
I mean we are. One of our phrases is get
used to different.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
That's it's something we tend to do pretty well. I
think for us on a practical level, you know, doing
releasing theatrically helps us fund the rest of the series
since we are an independent TV show, but on a
cinematic on our artistic level, the show is meant to

(11:37):
be seen in theaters. In fact, the first time it'll
be it is the first time it'll be actually screened
in Imax as well at select theaters.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
So every season we seem to be able to have this.

Speaker 4 (11:49):
You know, God grants us the ability to to level
up our production values and the cinematic.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
I love it because what would be what was necessary
for funding became your uniqueness. And explain to them how
it works, because you know, what do I do? I
go sit there and I get every episode of the season.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
Basically, March twenty eighth, you have part one. We break
up season five into three parts. Part one episode is
the first two episodes March twenty eighth, and then Part
two's episodes three, four and five, which begins a fourth
If you've missed part one, they'll still be there, so
you can kind of binge the first two parts, and

(12:27):
then on April eleventh through Easter weekend, we will have
Part three, which is episode six, seven, and eight. And
if you've still not seen the first five episodes, you
can binge the entire season of five in theaters over
Easter weekend from starting from the eleventh.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
So probably one of the only ways you get me
and see me at a theater. And I look forward
to it all Part one, Part two, and Part three.
Jonathan Rumy is Jesus in The Chosen. Season five debuts
with Part one in theater on March to twenty eighth.
If you have never seen The Jesus Revolution, you need
to see it. Kelsey Grammer does a terrific job in
that movie. You play Lonnie Frisbee through the roof, And

(13:09):
of course we look forward to this debut and I
just wanted to personally say to you, and by the way,
when you and Mark walked us through the c S Lewis.
Month Oh followed Boyd to introduce C. S. Lewis to
this generation in the way that you did. Thank you
so much. What you're doing for the Kingdom of God,
what you're doing for the what they think is a
kingdom of entertainment. I wish you nothing but the best

(13:32):
and the continued transformation and success that you're enjoying.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Jonathan, I love you, my brother. Thank you, God bless you. Michael.
What an extraordinary guy, terrific actor. There's no question, you
know what you see this.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Sometimes as people get older, you stop living in reality,
you stop living forward, and you start looking back. Your
best days are behind you and your focus is behind you.
We talked earlier about the illusion that people are watching Fox, MSNBC, CNN.
They're not compared to Joe Rogan or Theo Vaughan. I mean,
and the young generation, like Robert DeNiro is coming out

(14:07):
with a movie Altill Nights this weekend.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
Nobody's gonna go.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
If you're still living like Robert de Niro is the
it guy, he's the influential. He's not Jonathan Roomy is
two hundred and fifty million viewers. That's the reality. What
an impressive I mean, the making of the Messenger is
always so revealing to the message and how he was fearfully,
wonderfully made and journeyed and created by God for such

(14:35):
a role as this, for such a time as this.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
One of my favorite visits ever.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Jonathan Rumy Don't miss the Chosen in Theaters Part one
March twenty eighth, Part two April fourth. How about the
timing of Part three April eleventh through Easter.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
will miss you. It's your Morning Show with Michael del Churno.
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