{"id":333989,"date":"2025-12-08T02:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333989\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T02:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:14:07","slug":"welcome-to-derry-co-creators-tease-heartbreaking-season-1-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333989\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Derry’ Co-Creators Tease Heartbreaking Season 1 End"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt\u2019s perhaps no major surprise that It: Welcome to Derry<\/a>\u2018s first season is unlikely to have a particularly upbeat ending. <\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the HBO<\/a> series\u2019 event at CCXP on Sunday in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/a>, the show\u2019s team was asked to give a single word to sum up the penultimate episode ahead of it airing Sunday. Participating in the panel for the show that is based on Stephen King<\/a>\u2018s classic horror novel It were co-creators Andy Muschietti<\/a> and Barbara Muschietti<\/a>, along with castmembers Chris Chalk and Rudy Mancuso<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEpisode seven? Devastation,\u201d replied Chalk, who plays Dick Hallorann. Filmmaker Andy Muschietti, who directed Warner Bros.\u2019 2017 movie It and its 2019 follow-up, added, \u201cYou took the word from my mouth. Devastating, like deaths.\u201d And Barbara Muschietti\u2019s choice was, \u201cHeartbreaking,\u201d which led to exclamations of disappointment from the moderators and crowd.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe went on to say, \u201cI\u2019ll tell you one thing: Rudy is great in it. So, it\u2019s OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLast week\u2019s sixth episode of It: Welcome to Derry certainly teased that devastation could be on the horizon. In that installment, Lilly Bainbridge (Clara Stack) realized that Ingrid Kersh (Madeleine Stowe), who has been stalking her as Periwinkle the Clown, is the daughter of Bob Gray (Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd), the original Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Meanwhile, the episode ended on a cliffhanger as the racist mob arrives at the Black Spot in search of Hank Grogan (Stephen Rider). <\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking of Mancuso, his character, Pauly Russo, sacrificed himself this season to save best friend Leroy Hanlon (Jovan Adepo). The actor was asked to reflect on that decision.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s interesting because I don\u2019t think Pauly was necessarily imagined as this super-selfless, self-sacrificial character,\u201d Mancuso explained. \u201cBut in that moment, at least for me, what was going through Pauly\u2019s mind was, \u2018This is what my purpose is.\u2019 All these other characters, including my partner, Leroy, has a lot to lose. He has this family, and he has this reputation, and he\u2019s battling with his own traumas. But Pauly really only has Leroy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt: Welcome to Derry is set in Derry, Maine, in 1962 amid the aftermath of young Matty Clements (Miles Ekhardt) disappearing. The cast also includes Taylour Paige, James Remar, Matilda Lawler, Blake Cameron James, Amanda Christine and Arian S. Cartaya. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn keeping with the themes of the series, the panel\u2019s participants were asked to name their greatest fear. \u201cMy fianc\u00e9e, Camila Mendes<\/a> \u2014 who\u2019s here \u2014 being mad at me,\u201d quipped Mancuso. Meanwhile, Barbara Muschietti replied, \u201cFascist government,\u201d leading to a big cheer from the crowd.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Chalk teased the daunting task for the show\u2019s leads as the season winds down. \u201cHow can you beat Pennywise, guys?\u201d the actor asked. \u201cIs that even possible for this group of ragtag goofballs? I don\u2019t know. We\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s perhaps no major surprise that It: Welcome to Derry\u2018s first season is unlikely to have a particularly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[132531,64,63,142377,11308,143821,134,9054,3389,81711,186520,22363,427],"class_list":["post-333989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-andy-muschietti","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-barbara-muschietti","tag-brazil","tag-camila-mendes","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo","tag-international","tag-it-welcome-to-derry","tag-rudy-mancuso","tag-stephen-king","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}