Noah James, who portrays the disciple Andrew within the streaming sequence “The Chosen,” says he has loads of questions for the brother of Peter — however not essentially something he would say aloud.

“I really feel like I might simply should seize his arms. Simply seize his arms, no phrases wanted to be shared,” Mr. James mentioned in an interview with The Washington Occasions.

“I might need to know what it was like, in these years after the crucifixion. That’s an enormous piece of the puzzle,” he mentioned. “I can take into consideration that query … for so long as I’m lucky sufficient to play this character.”

Fortune has smiled on the actor and on “The Chosen.” The fourth season of the hit streaming sequence on the lifetime of Jesus and his followers reaches the general public in February, first in theaters, and can later transfer to the present’s streaming app.

Momentum has been constructing ever because the sequence first aired, and theatrical displays have typically bought out venues as lots of of followers collect for communal viewing. This fall, a “ChosenCon” occasion drew hundreds to Dallas, Texas, to listen to from the celebrities in addition to the present’s creator, Dallas Jenkins.

Mr. James, 34, says season 4 shall be suffused with drama and ache.

“I believe that the beauty of season 4 is that as you’re on the lookout for the nice issues, the sunshine, generally the darkness can assist body the nice,” he mentioned. “I do assume that’s a kind of ongoing theme with season 4.”

Though he and the remainder of the forged know, from historical past and the Bible, the place the story of Jesus is heading — a trial earlier than Pilate, scourging, crucifixion and resurrection — they have to play every season as if the storyline is unknown.

“You at all times need to be, in a manner, as naive as doable. You need to are available in with as clear a imaginative and prescient as you possibly can. If something, the job is to attempt to neglect all of that [future], and simply be within the second,” Mr. James mentioned.

“We all know the way it’s going to finish, as an viewers,” he mentioned. “However these characters, nearly all of them, you understand, clearly have no idea what’s on the horizon.”

Uncertainty in regards to the quick future additionally dogged Mr. James through the manufacturing of season 4 earlier this yr, as strikes by the actors and writers unions loomed. Although “The Chosen” in the end obtained a waiver permitting manufacturing to proceed when the labor motion hit, there was anxiousness all through.

“You’re pulled in two completely different instructions,” mentioned Mr. James, whose IMDB tv credit embody roles on “Shameless,” “S.W.A.T.” and “Gilmore Ladies: A Yr within the Life.” “We’re actors. We’re part of this union. And this union protects us. [But] there’s additionally the facet of ‘Wow, I’m a member of this manufacturing of this present. I hope we get to complete the season earlier than a strike occurs or one thing.”