Along with an intense midseason trailer for *It: Welcome to Derry*, Chris Chalk offers some interesting insights into the character Dick Halloran. Don’t worry—we won’t be dropping any heavy spoilers for the filmmakers Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, or the showrunners Jason Fuchs and Brad Caleb Kane’s work on *It: Welcome to Derry* Season 1, Episode 4: “The Great Swirling Apparatus of Our Planet’s Function.”
That said, with the release of the midseason trailer, it’s painfully clear that the horror has only just begun. Before diving into what’s ahead, we want to share some intriguing commentary from this week’s edition of *The Official IT: Welcome to Derry Podcast*.
Speaking with hosts Marc Bernardin and Princess Weekes, actor Chris Chalk provided valuable insights into who Dick Halloran is when we first meet him, and how that characterization sets him up for some harsh reality checks on multiple levels.
> “I’m gonna tell you something about Dick. He don’t really care that much about other people. At this stage of his evolution, it’s very much me, me, me, because imagine if you could read everyone’s mind, who you gonna hang out with? Nobody, you know what I mean? He’s at a stage where his power is all or nothing. So it feels like he has to get away from everybody,” Chalk explained.
The actor continued:
> “It’s cool to have the freedom of what other characters don’t have. You know what I mean? Like when you meet Dick and he’s with Reggie, and he says, like, you really are, you really do do something special. There is like a power that comes, like, you know, standing up tall, he feels very proud of that. But then there’s the flip of that, thinking I’m in full control of that machine. And then they go, ‘Boy, you just a little black boy to us.’ So it was a cool thing to be able to play so confidently that one end of arrogance, almost, so that then when the rug gets pulled from underneath me, I’m like, ‘Oh, oh, I’m not. Not only am I not powerful in this military world, I’m not even powerful in the other reality that I can partake in, considering the entities that I meet in this show.’”
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### It: Welcome to Derry S01E05: “Neibolt Street” Preview
Next weekend’s episode, *It: Welcome to Derry* S01E05, titled “Neibolt Street” and written by Brad Caleb Kane, currently lacks an official overview. However, the episode trailer for Sunday’s release offers a glimpse at what to expect.
*It: Welcome to Derry* stars Jovan Adepo, Taylour Paige, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe, Rudy Mancuso, and Bill Skarsgård. The series is produced by HBO and Warner Bros. Television and developed for television by Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti, and Jason Fuchs. It is based on the novel *It* by Stephen King.
Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, through their Double Dream production company, along with Jason Fuchs, Brad Caleb Kane, David Coatsworth, Bill Skarsgård, Shelley Meals, Roy Lee, and Dan Lin serve as executive producers. Fuchs, who wrote the teleplay for the first episode, and Kane are the show’s co-showrunners.
Stay tuned for more updates as the horror unfolds in Derry.
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