No red carpets unfurled as the stars and creator of “The Chosen” joined Bear Grylls for a new adventure series.

In “The Chosen in the Wild With Bear Grylls” the famous survivalist guides actors Jonathan Roumie (Jesus), Luke Dimyan (Judas), Noah James (Andrew), Paras Patel (Matthew), Elizabeth Tabish (Mary Magdalene) and showrunner Dallas Jenkins through challenging American landscapes, including Castle Valley and Canyonlands in Utah and The Great Basin Desert. All six episodes, each featuring one guest, are now streaming on Prime Video. Season 6 of “The Chosen,” depicting the Crucifixion, will premiere on the platform Nov. 15.

“It had been a life dream to do one with Jesus, and I guess this is about as close as I’m ever going to get,” Grylls tells USA TODAY of the episode with Roumie.

Grylls, who wrote last year’s “The Greatest Story Ever Told,” an account of the life, death and Resurrection of Jesus, relies on his faith daily.

“It helps me in the small moments, in the big moments,” he says. Grylls remembers he talked to God as he plummeted thousands of feet in a skydiving accident in 1996 when his parachute failed to deploy. He broke three vertebrae in the fall.

“To be honest, there were some expletives coming out as well,” Grylls, 52, jokes. “But there were plenty of dark moments in the hospital afterwards of praying, and … that spirit of needing something beyond myself has never left me, and my faith has never let me down.”

Roumie, for his part, thanks Jesus before landing in the Adirondacks after jumping out of a helicopter at 10,000 feet. Nothing was off limits for “The Chosen in the Wild,” Grylls says.

“There wasn’t an actor from ‘The Chosen’ who at the end of this didn’t say, ‘That was one of the hardest days of my life,’ and I love that,” Grylls says. “That’s what the show is.

 “We never pick the easy route,” he says with a chuckle. “We’re always crossing rivers and climbing up ravines. We make the routes dynamic and exciting and challenging, and that’s part of it. But then there’s time to sit down and cook up a snake, or whatever it is, round a campfire and talk about life and talk about their journey and their faith.”

As is customary on Grylls’ shows, guests dine on animals found during their escapades – each far less appetizing than loaves of bread or fish. Tabish and Grylls split a lifeless tarantula. James found removing a locust’s head and legs before ingesting it to be “a little serial-killer like.” Roumie crunches down a beetle he initially thought might be fake. But another Grylls delicacy proves tougher to swallow. While walking in the forest, he and Roumie happen upon a ravaged dead deer. Grylls cuts off the animal’s tongue with a knife and boils it over a campfire.

“A tongue is like one of the last bits of a carcass that’s going to rot, because it’s all protected in the skull,” Grylls tells USA TODAY. “Generally, the animals are devouring all the soft organs, all the blood, all the innards pretty quick. But the bone marrow and what’s inside the skull tends to last the longest. So the rest of it was a little stinky, I’m not going to lie, but the tongue was just on the turn. But we cooked it hard, and it was a bit chewy, but it was fine.”

For Grylls, the true spirit of the series shines in moments of intimate conversation.

“The power of ‘Chosen in the Wild’ is you get to know these actors in a way you never would do just sitting on a chat show couch,” he says. “You’re not just getting a story. You’re actually getting their heart and how playing this role has changed their life.”

In Tabish’s episode, she opens up about being enveloped in hopelessness before being cast as Mary Magdalene and dealing with neck and back problems stemming from a pair of car accidents about a decade ago.

“I was numbing [my chronic pain] with drinking a lot, and there were days where I just didn’t get out of bed,” she says. “There’s a depression that comes with it if you don’t take care of it.”

Dimyan shares that his acting ambitions made his father nervous.

“He was like: ‘No, stay safe. Get a desk job. Find a nice, tiny, depressing cubicle and stay there. Get paid.’” Dimyan recalls in the episode.

“Safety is an illusion,” Grylls says during the interview. “The path less trodden leads to all the good places in life. If you want to achieve anything, you have to step out in faith. It’s just the way life works.

“And even for those that think … ‘I’m going to play it safe and stay put,’ it’s actually not safe. You decay. Humans are designed for challenge and to move forward.”