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    Friday, April 18, 2025

    My interviews with The Chosen's Vanessa Benavente and Shahar Isaac

    It's usually a busy few weeks for me in the run up to Easter and this year has been no exception with me trying to keep on top of three biblical dramas coming out and culminating in the same week (The animated film The King of Kings which had a strong opening weekend; Amazon Prime's series The House of David whose season finale dropped the previous week; and three instalments of The Chosen: Last Supper (season 5) which began the week before that).

    As part of the build up to those releases I've been able to do some interviews, the first of which I posted on YouTube on Sunday, but I've not had a moment to share it here until just now. I got to speak to Vanessa Benavente (who plays Jesus's Mother Mary in The Chosen) and Shahar Isaac (who plays Simon Peter). Anyway, here's the video.

    This is more or less the first time I've had the opportunity to interview actors, so apologies if I'm not yet at the level of Michael Parkinson / Oprah / François Truffaut. The set up threw me a bit and I need to work on how I deliver my questions, but hopefully you'll find what they had to say interesting.

    I have another interview with James Arnold Taylor from The King of Kings coming shortly, so if you want more of the same, then subscribe to my channel, or keep an eye on the blog. 

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