{"id":1704663,"date":"2022-10-20T17:34:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704663"},"modified":"2022-10-20T17:34:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:34:49","slug":"the-chosen-actress-once-skeptical-about-god-says-role-has-been-life-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-chosen-actress-once-skeptical-about-god-says-role-has-been-life-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Chosen\u2019 Actress, Once Skeptical About God, Says Role Has Been Life-Changing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-chosen-actress-once-skeptical-about-god-says-role-has-been-life-changing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704663&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cThe Chosen\u201d star Elizabeth Tabish admitted that before she landed a lead role on the hit faith-based series, she was at a dark time in her life and was suffering a depression, feeling skeptical about whether God was even there.<\/p>\n<p>Tabish, who scored the role of Mary Magdalene\u00a0in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/costs-and-confusion-the-chosen-creator-explains-popularity-of-show-and-what-fans-can-expect-for-upcoming-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series that explores Jesus through those close to him,<\/a>\u00a0said she was \u201cpretty depressed\u201d and was ready to walk away from acting before she got the part, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IJrH2A2avtk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Christian Broadcasting Network<\/a> (CBN\u2019s Faithwire) shared in a recent interview. However, now she sees there was a reason for the pain she went through and has a new belief in God\u2019s love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was not working enough to really make ends meet,\u201d Tabish said. \u201cI was barely making rent and I was in a depression at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said she had decided if she didn\u2019t get the role, she was done and was going to look for something else. However, that didn\u2019t end up happening, and she said it\u2019s \u201cbeen really\u00a0hard to ignore\u201d that this whole experience has been something very special for her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cI try to be very rational about things,\u201d Tabish explained. \u201cAnd over time, it\u2019s been really hard to ignore that there\u2019s something really special about this experience for me. I feel like I wasn\u2019t able to \u2014 I wouldn\u2019t have been able to connect with the Lilith portion of [Mary Magdalene] had I not gone through some painful things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of that, I\u2019m realizing \u2026 God has been there the whole time,\u201d she added. \u201cThere are these moments in the show where I\u2019m actually saying that: \u2018In the depths, in the heights, You are there.\u2019 So there\u2019s been these really sweet, sort of idiosyncratic things for me personally throughout this show that are constant reminders that God\u2019s love is real. It\u2019s a real thing and I\u2019ve been slowly opening up to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Season 1, which was released in 2019, \u201cwas the #1 highest crowd-funded entertainment project of all-time, raising $10 million from over 19,000 people,\u201d according to a press release, as previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-chosen-creator-answers-if-he-thinks-jesus-wouldve-used-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cOver $40 million in production costs funded for Seasons 2 and 3 via the disruptive pay it forward model.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trailer for Season 3 dropped Monday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y7z868kEl5s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> and became the number one trending video on the platform. The first two episodes of the season will be shown together on the big screen in November, with the entire series later available, free to fans to watch on the app and streaming like they always do, with a message about paying it forward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-chosen-creator-answers-if-he-thinks-jesus-wouldve-used-social-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018The Chosen\u2019 Creator Answers If He Thinks Jesus Would\u2019ve Used Social\u00a0Media<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Chosen\u201d star Elizabeth Tabish admitted that before she landed a lead role on the hit faith-based series, she was at a dark time in her life and was suffering a depression, feeling skeptical about whether God was even there. Tabish, who scored the role of Mary Magdalene\u00a0in the series that explores Jesus through those &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1704666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}