It’s: Welcome to Derry is a direct prequel by Andy Muschietti it and Chapter Two. So it’s no surprise that Muschietti and the rest of the team behind the HBO series are bringing back some familiar names and faces — besides Pennywise, of course — along the way.

Earlier in the season, Fans know the backstory of the doomed clown Bob Gray and his daughter, Ingrid. After losing her father to Pennywise, Ingrid stayed in Derry, got a job at Juniper Hill Asylum, and married the local butcher. She became Ingrid Kersh and was played in Derry’s main timeline in 1962 by Madeleine Stowe.

Fans of Chapter Two sat tall when Ingrid’s last name was revealed in episode five: Kersh, as in Mrs. Kershthe creepy old lady-slash-Pennywise disguise (played by Joan Gregson) that Beverly Marsh (Jessica Chastain) encounters during her return to Derry? Yes. It was him, so to speak. And we know this because of what was revealed about Ingrid’s later years It’s: Welcome to Derryit’s finalthe crudely titled “Winter Fire.”

In “Winter’s Fire,” we see that Ingrid becomes a permanent resident of Juniper Hill after meeting Pennywise – after finding him and doing some terrible things to tempt him to appear – and realizing, once and for all, that he is the not it’s his father. He was also caught in the Deadlights, which would make anyone angry.

The show then fast-forwards 26 years, and Ingrid Kersh meets young Beverly Marsh — whose mother was a fellow patient, recently deceased — at Juniper Hill. They locked eyes in the last moments of the end, and the teenage character was played by Sophia Lillis, Ms. “Winter Fire” itself from it movies.

Talked to differentAndy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, co-creators of It’s: Welcome to DerryAlong with Jason Fuchs, it was explained that Lillis’ cameo was added too late. In fact, says Andy, this is when they do “reshoots and pick-ups before editing.” (Andy directed “Winter Fire,” which Fuchs wrote.)

“I had an idea for a four-scene epilogue, but it was a little too ambitious, so we condensed it into one scene with only one of the Losers (Club). We always joke that Sophia Lillis is always the same. She looked 14 when she was 14 and now that she’s 24, she still looks 14, so we can say to her that there’s no need to go back she. “We also brought the actress who played the old Ingrid Kersh, Joan Gregson, in This is chapter 2. We wanted to show that those characters had met before, so in the flash-forward, we still have Kersh committed to Juniper Hill, the same place where Beverly’s mom was committed. It seems to be the perfect connection. “

Gregson died a few months ago at the age of 91, according to Barbara Muschietti, but his presence in Derry proved to be crucial during one final—as well as it story of the future.

“What I love about that scene is that it changes your understanding of Beverly’s encounter with It’s manifestation of Mrs. Kersh in This is chapter 2“Fuchs explained. “I was very lucky to work on that scene and, at the time, I thought it took the disguise of Pennywise’s daughter to victimize Beverly’s traumatic relationship with her own father. Then, I did not think that Beverly Marsh met the real Mrs. Kersh.”

However, he added, “But now, you go back and look at that scene again, and you realize that it’s on to something else. It knows that Beverly actually met Mrs. Kersh at least once and it was the worst day of her life, the day her mother committed suicide. young life. at the moment, we will see the end of our time.

You can watch everything It’s: Welcome to Derry season one on HBO and HBO Max.

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