When actress Elizabeth Tabish learned she got the role of Mary Magdalene in “The Chosen,” she says, the series “was not the show we know it is today.”
Initially, the show was going to be released on an app and was only set to release the first four episodes of Season One. “It felt more like a pilot,” Tabish says, adding that as an actress she knew many shows never went past their pilots, so she was trying to keep her “hopes in check.”
Up until receiving the role in “The Chosen,” a multiseason series that depicts the life and ministry of Jesus and the Twelve Apostles, Tabish was struggling in the industry and says she was “trying to quit acting.”
“I just was not very successful,” she explains. “So, I was like, I need to do something more practical. So, it was sort of like the last audition that I was going to do, and when I got the…
