A conversation with Dallas Jenkins - S9.E12
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4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The Chosen, a streaming series about Jesus and his disciples, has vaulted creator Dallas Jenkins to the top of evangelical cultural circles. In this conversation with Warren Smith, Jenkins talks about writing the show, what it’s like on set, and how he hopes to avoid the mid-life pitfalls that plague so many popular shows.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Warren Smith, and today you'll be listening in on my conversation with Dallas Jenkins. |
| 0:08.0 | He's the writer, director, and showrunner for the streaming phenomenon, The Chosen. |
| 0:15.3 | I did not feel pressure to succeed. |
| 0:19.2 | I felt pressure to make a show that honor God and that lived up to the promise of Jesus |
| 0:26.7 | as followers when he was here on earth, and I wanted to do right by them, and I wanted |
| 0:30.4 | to do right by the story, and I wanted to live up to the character and intentions of |
| 0:34.1 | the gospels. |
| 0:35.4 | But I did not feel any pressure to be successful, and I still don't. |
| 0:40.1 | All of this has been a God-driven ride that I'm fortunate to be on, but I don't feel like |
| 0:46.2 | I'm responsible for it. |
| 0:48.2 | And because of that, it takes a lot of the pressure off. |
| 0:52.8 | Like in 2017, things were not going so great for Dallas Jenkins. |
| 0:57.1 | He'd been making his way as a filmmaker and having some success, but in 2017, he released |
| 1:03.7 | the Resurrection of Gavin Stone, which was built as a Christian comedy. |
| 1:10.1 | But there's an old saying in the acting profession, dying is easy. |
| 1:15.0 | Comedy is hard, and Dallas Jenkins found that with Gavin Stone, comedy was very hard |
| 1:22.7 | indeed. |
| 1:23.8 | The movie bombed. |
| 1:25.4 | Today, Dallas Jenkins calls it the biggest failure of his career. |
| 1:31.2 | But that failure brought Dallas Jenkins into a time of introspection and refocusing on |
| 1:38.2 | what he really wanted to do with his career. |
| 1:42.3 | Something else happened in 2017. |
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