Get some popcorn ready for Season 4 of “The Chosen,” the stars of the hit series told The Catholic Channel host Katie Prejean McGrady in an interview on Tuesday, January 30.

New episodes will premiere in cinemas only beginning Thursday, February 1. Episodes will be shown three at a time successively for two-week periods.

Actors Jonathan Roumie, who plays Jesus, and Elizabeth Tabish, who portrays Mary Magdalene, joined McGrady for a town hall-style interview at Sirius XM headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, including a small, invitation-only audience.

Roumie has been moved by fans’ reaction, especially the “intensity of their devotion to the characters, to the story, and to our portrayal,” he said.

Tabish described her unique approach to her character. “Anytime I get too nervous about it, I just refocus on the script and look at [Mary Magdalene] as a person. We are depicting her in the first episode as a woman who has gone through a lot, who has suffered trauma, who struggles with addiction and depression, and who has suffered from suicide attempts,” she said.

Tabish cited a scene from season two, where Mary Magdalene returns to Jesus after a relapse, as one of her favorites. “It was this very human moment where you’re going to make mistakes, and this shame that she’s holding onto, it’s so human, it’s so relatable,” she said.

“Who wasn’t crying when they saw that,” McGrady said.

Roumie echoed that moment as a favorite scene. He added that a scene of Jesus walking on water in the season three finale was also one that he enjoyed the most. “The complexity of that scene, not just the technical complexity but the emotional and narrative complexity of that scene, made it one of my favorites.”

In season four, we will see the narrative of Lazarus’s story. Beyond that, the cast members didn’t give away much about the next nine episodes.

Both actors discussed their paths to working on the show, including Roumie’s moment of “surrender,” when he had overdrafted his checking account and wasn’t sure how he was going to buy food the following day, and Tabish’s education at Oklahoma State University, followed by a move to Austin, Texas.

“The Chosen,” which traces the life of Christ, began as a crowd-funded television series that will appear only in cinemas for its fourth season. Growing by word-of-mouth, the show has streamed on The CW network and is now available on multiple platforms, including Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Its audience is now estimated in the hundreds of millions. Roumie and Tabish were in New York to promote the new season, after events in Los Angeles, London, and Poland.

Episodes in the new season will be released to cinemas three at a time, for two-week periods, beginning Thursday, February 1. The format encourages people to see the fourth season of “The Chosen” with family, friends, or church groups, Tabish said.

Roumie and Tabish did not take questions from audience members.

McGrady’s interview with “The Chosen” cast premieres on The Catholic Channel, Wednesday, January 31, at 1 p.m. on Sirius XM Channel 129. “The Chosen” season four opens Thursday, February 1, at select cinemas. Visit the show’s website for tickets and information.