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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: How It: Welcome to Derry’s Chris Chalk Was Influenced by Every Single Actor Who’s Played His Character in Past Stephen King Projects · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: If you caught last night's premiere, Chris Chalk in the
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  Speaker 2: new IT spinoff series Welcome to Darry is the gifted
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  Speaker 2: actor who plays Dick Halloran, a character who's already been
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  Speaker 2: woven into many Stephen King's adittations. He's the psychic head
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  Speaker 2: Cook in The Shining, played by Scatman Cruthers in the
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  Speaker 2: iconic nineteen eighty movie, Melvin Van Peebles in the nineteen
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  Speaker 2: ninety seven mini series, and by Carl Lumbley in the
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  Speaker 2: spinoff Doctor Sleep, and Chris Chalk referenced all of them
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  Speaker 2: for his vision of Dick in the Welcome to Dairy prequel,
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  Speaker 2: telling TV Guide, to be able to show Dick in
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  Speaker 2: a different era is the best part, because I've already
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  Speaker 2: got his groundwork. The earlier actors did the hard part
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  Speaker 2: by building a fan base for Dick. So my acting
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  Speaker 2: is supported by a great text, a great process, great actors,
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  Speaker 2: a great network, and great creators. I just have to
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  Speaker 2: fill in the blinks of when he was younger. Chris
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  Speaker 2: adds that it's exciting to now be a part of
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  Speaker 2: the legacy it. Welcome to Darry drops new episodes Sunday
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  Speaker 2: on HBO.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.