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Earlier this year, well-known Catholic actor Jonathan Roumie was a guest on the ABC talk show, “The View.”
Roumie discussed his role as Jesus on the hit series, “The Chosen,” and how his life has changed because of it.
Roumie recently joined Catholic speaker and podcast host Matt Fradd on “Pints with Aquinas” and shares what his experience was like appearing on “The View.”
“I think for a millisecond I was like, ‘Oh, I wonder how this is going to go,’” Roumie shares. “But I was never worried. I prayed about it, of course.”
The Catholic actor added that just like “everything else that I’ve committed to on this journey, I have to surrender it.”
“I’m like, ‘Lord, you’ve given me this opportunity. It must be for a reason.’ So, I’m not going to worry about the consequences; I’m not going to worry about anything. I’m just going to go authentically be who you made me to and just be present to people,” he says.
Roumie goes on to say that the response was “overwhelming.”
“People were more nervous for me than I was nervous for me,” he says. “I’m like ‘Well, they’re people. They’re just people.”
Roumie shares that after the segment, he spoke with each of the show’s hosts and gave them rosaries, which they all “happily accepted.”
After his experience, Roumie points out that he realized that “there are so many people that are just on a journey.”
“They’re searching,” he explains. “They may not necessarily believe, they may not necessarily know what to expect, but they’re searching, and they were open to what I was bringing to them through the Holy Spirit.”