The Weight of the Empty Cross: The Chosen’s John, Mary, and Andrew on Season 6

On a Texas set under a heat advisory, George Xanthis (John), Vanessa Benavente (Mother Mary), and Noah James (Andrew) sit in Caiaphas’s office—a room none of their characters have needed before—and talk about the work that has brought them here. Season 6 of The Chosen captures the final twenty-four hours of Jesus of Nazareth. Streaming begins November 15, 2026 on Prime Video; the season culminates in the theatrical film The Chosen Crucifixion on March 12, 2027. In conversation with Paul Salfen and Ronald Paul Salfen for AMFM Magazine, the actors discuss organic connection, the limits of what Mary understood, the weight of playing people who become history, and the moments—empty cross and all—that will stay with them.