‘The Chosen’ Star Luke Dimyan Says Taking part in Judas Required a ‘Launch of Expectations’ (Unique)

Luke Dimyan has spent three seasons moving into the complicated footwear of Judas Iscariot on The Chosen — and the actor says he’s lastly come to grasp him.

“We’re very fortunate to have had three seasons with him now, for me to construct and get to grasp 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 numerous his beliefs and beliefs.”

Dimyan describes Judas as “somebody of very sturdy religion who cares about his folks.”  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 folks.”

“He needs and needs change so badly that he finds a messiah in somebody he can belief, and when that messiah would not ship on the salvation that he so desperately needs, you possibly can see the very human lengths that he’ll go to attempt to trigger a catalyst to create a scenario for that sort of salvation,” he continues.

Portraying such a controversial and iconic determine hasn’t been with out strain. 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, folks’s beliefs and the way in which folks view these characters,” he says. 

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“However then additionally , wholesome, light launch of these expectations and placing quantity of religion and belief within the materials offered earlier than you, by the scripts given to us by our unbelievable 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.”

His costars agree. Noah James, who performs Andrew the Apostle, says they “undoubtedly really feel the strain.” “We’ve to launch it as a result of in any other case we might simply be paralyzed,” he says. “They’re clearly a number of the most vital 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 filth and blood and sweat and tears of those folks.”

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The Chosen: Final Supper has debuted in theaters in three components — all of which are actually in choose theaters nationwide. All of season 5 will probably be accessible to stream on Prime Video later in 2025.