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Easter • Director Dallas Jenkins • Mar. 30-April 5 • Come, Follow Me

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Hank Smith & John Bytheway

Education, Doctrine And Covenants, Hank Smith, Christianity, Courses, Follow Him, Religion & Spirituality, John Bytheway, Follow Me

4.99.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

What if the greatest story ever told felt deeply personal again? In this Easter-focused conversation, Dallas Jenkins shares how he is bringing the resurrection of Jesus Christ to life in upcoming seasons of The Chosen. With intimacy and emotional depth, Jenkins reveals his own faith journey that reshaped his career, his creative and spiritual approach to the Savior’s final days, and what it truly means to celebrate Easter with joy that is both real and transformative. SHOW NOTES/TRANSCRIPTS E...

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0:00.0

Coming up in this episode on Follow Him.

0:03.7

We were going to be using the LDS set in Goshen, Utah. It was the only place we were going to be able to film season two because everything else was closed down during COVID, and there's no places in the states that work, and we're looking overseas, and that's not working. And then the church told us no, can't use it. And I'm like, man, that's weird. I thought God had put it on my heart to use this set, and I'd visited it, and felt like God

0:23.6

was speaking to me and telling me lives are going to change with the work you do on this set. And then they said no, and I'm like, I guess I was wrong. Hello, my friends, welcome to another episode of Follow Him. My name is Hink Smith. I'm your host. I'm here with my

0:38.5

joyful co-host, John, by the way. John, straight out of the manual this week, Easter is a joyful time.

0:46.4

If there's no Easter, there's no Christmas. And we think of joy with Christmas, but if there's no

0:51.4

Easter, it's all about Easter. It's all about the resurrection.

0:56.5

Easter is what matters. John, we are honored and privileged today to be joined by the creator of

1:01.3

the chosen Dallas Jenkins. Dallas, welcome to follow him. Yeah, thanks for having me. You guys do great work.

1:07.7

We are excited to have you. One of our team members, her name is Lisa Spice.

1:12.1

She says, this is the greatest day of her recording life on Follow Him.

1:17.9

John, when you think of Easter, what comes to mind? When I was a little kid, we would be at church.

1:25.4

And if I was having trouble paying attention, my mom would say, think about Jesus.

1:29.7

And I would think about a picture in my mind.

1:33.3

I would try to anyway.

1:35.5

Later, you get older and you lose people, you lose your grandparents.

1:40.5

My brother lost a baby.

1:42.8

More and more I started thinking about that empty tomb

1:46.3

and that he was risen.

1:48.5

That has helped me the best part to remember about Christ

1:52.3

is that he was not there when they went to the tomb.

1:55.7

You've lost both your parents, I've lost both my parents.

1:59.0

Because of the Lord, I like to say we hope for that

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