It: welcome to dery We will be floating your nightmares soon, and while the children’s thrills – will pass and center, the characters of adults also play a prominent role in the story. Many of the people we meet were created for the HBO series, which is set in 1962 and is the setting for the events of It movies. But every Stephen King Fan who has walked into the Overviewlook Hotel knows Dick Hallorann.
Chris Chalk (Newsroom, shiny girls) he plays a character with a mental gift – seen mostly from within To shine– There is It: welcome to dery. As he told IO9 at the recent HBE Press, he is well aware of the legacy created by Scanman Chithes – that they brought Hallorann to mind with the 1980 movie STANNY KUBRICKI – and 2019 Doctors Sleep) and Melvin Van Peebles (1997 Done miniseries). But he is here to deliver its interpretation of the character.
“To create and show this version of Dick Halloran, I saw what was being done, but I didn’t-‘study’ is too strong a word, because that’s not what we do. “If we were doing Stanley Kubrick’s To shine In 2025, then I will learn that it works in a different way, but all I have to do is to see who he is now and break him back to who he was before, then it is creative freedom and text. So it’s amazing that all these options for people who didn’t get their own version, but since they had their version, I knew I’d get my version. No one asked me to imitate anyone. “
A subspecies of Hallorann we meet It: welcome to dery Is the airman stationed in the air force and they take us outside the city. This military installation is mainly in the “special” area, where Hallorann’s skills are pressed to work for General Shaw (James Remar). There are no flaws in what they are trying to achieve, but Hallorann receives certain privileges because of his unique importance in the mission. The reconciliation is that, all those mental exercises pay off a lot.
“I think the fact that the dick is involved in this [mission] “It’s proof that they can do anything to avoid getting caught,” Chalk said. The worst thing he can do to himself, he finally has to do is to escape this idea of being trapped by General Shaw. He has to cry out about the trauma and re-open the Trauma and re-open the Trauma and re-open the Trauma. But you want to get away so bad that you’re like, ‘Okay, I’ll cut myself if it’s going to get me out of this.’ It is a very good thing to find a person at their weakest, most fragile and desperate points. Like, that’s what we’re looking for: Getting to dig deep into the person. “
Elsewhere in the story, we meet Hank Grogan, played by Stephen Rider (Daredevil, Luke Cage). He is the single father of Woung Ronnie (Amanda Christian) and Projectise’s at Derry’s Downtown Movie Theatre. In the beginning It: welcome to deryHe is drawn into the confused drama that binds to the screening of an American show, circa 1962 – a place full of problems even if there are no demons in the picture.
Hank is a new character, but the rider had many points of reference or not from King’s novel to consider.
“The thing about the backstory, it’s not like he’s going to tell you,” he explained. “It’s more and more clear about his vision and the world he comes from and what he knows. And there’s a lot of his parents where they came from, or where they came from, or they were slave traders. But where the background stuff comes out. Favastical. So when I’m suddenly like, ‘What do I do with this? It sounds good, but I don’t know what to do with this.’ So I had to make sure that it served Hank, not Stefano’s wonderful world. “
Newcomers to It: welcome to dery played by Jovan Adepo (3 physical problem, remaining) and taylor paige (Toxic avenger)or their last name is different It Fans will know: Hanlon. As the show begins, Major Leroy Hanlon has just been transferred to Dry, with his wife, Charlotte, and their son, son (Blake James), in Tow.
Major Hanlon, we soon learn, has a quality that was not unique in any context, but it is very funny in such a magnificent place as Dry: He is really a man without fear.
“It’s something that happens with a brain injury, and I think it’s something that he wants to throw out every time someone brings it up,” Adepo said. “I spoke to him [director] You are targeted [Muschietti] About the specifics of the injury and what really puts out the fear in this town where the show is about fear. I lean more on the side of not being completely immune to fear but just having a higher threshold for it. And if it’s too big a fear to be insecure, other things are magnified to the point of, you know, insecurity, anxiety, doubt, shame, and any of those little things. I’ve never played Leroy as he engages in any kind of encounter; Just being able to withstand a lot without it being something really, really caring, what we can think of is his family. “
Charlotte was active in the civil rights movement in Louisiana, where the Hanlons lived before moving to Maine. Leroy would have preferred his wife to keep a low profile, especially when he was trying to further his military career. But Derry has its share of injustices that catch Charlotte’s interest, and it’s hard for her to resist the right appreciation.
“I think you’re kind of bursting at the seams,” Paige said. “Living in that is very uncomfortable. Like he is at home being closed and thinking about what he has to give to the world, and no one cares, and he is lonely, and he is always sad, so his inner world is challenging and lonely.”
He added, “I think Charlotte knows her husband’s heart is in the right place, but she’s also dealing with it [him about] To protect the country [that hasn’t given us anything back]and that is a challenge. So it is [part of their marriage is] kind of understanding [that] This is our life as black people in 1962 and what opportunity and how to get out of what you were born with. “
It: welcome to dery Premieres October 26 on HBO.
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