Luke Dimyan has spent three seasons getting into the complicated footwear of Judas Iscariot on The Chosen — and the actor says he’s lastly come to know him.
“We’re very fortunate to have had three seasons with him now, for me to construct and get to know him,” Dimyan, 38, tells PEOPLE whereas discussing season 5 of the historic drama collection. “I’ve had this time to understand his in-depth viewpoints — what he cares about and what has influenced quite a lot of his beliefs and beliefs.”
Dimyan describes Judas as “somebody of very sturdy religion who cares about his individuals.” He explains, “He’s watching his whole society — his household, his family members — being abused and overtaken by this Roman society in a non secular ambiance that isn’t appreciating its individuals.”
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“He desires and wishes change so badly that he finds a messiah in somebody he can belief, and when that messiah does not ship on the salvation that he so desperately wishes, you possibly can see the very human lengths that he’ll go to attempt to trigger a catalyst to create a state of affairs for that form of salvation,” he continues.
Portraying such a controversial and iconic determine hasn’t been with out stress. To do the position justice, Dimyan says he needed to method it with each reverence and launch. “I believe it takes, first, an enormous quantity of respect for the supply materials, individuals’s beliefs and the way in which individuals view these characters,” he says.
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“However then additionally an excellent, wholesome, mild launch of these expectations and placing an excellent quantity of religion and belief within the materials offered earlier than you, by the scripts given to us by our incredible writers for this present. After which doing our homework, doing our work, realizing the historical past of those characters, understanding what is going on to occur after which portraying them as truthfully and as grounded as we are able to and giving them our personal little flavors.”
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His costars agree. Noah James, who performs Andrew the Apostle, says they “undoubtedly really feel the stress.” “We have now to launch it as a result of in any other case we’d simply be paralyzed,” he says. “They’re clearly a number of the most essential figures in our whole historical past, however discovering the character is much less so within the stained glass home windows and extra within the grit and dust and blood and sweat and tears of those individuals.”
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The Chosen: Final Supper has debuted in theaters in three components — all of which at the moment are in choose theaters nationwide. All of season 5 can be obtainable to stream on Prime Video later in 2025.
