Inside Dick Hallorann’s Epic Return in ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Episode 3

This story contains spoilers for It: Welcome to Derry episode 3.

Chris Chalk hopes people see many different spirits within Dick Hallorann. In It: Welcome to Derry , Chalk stars as the same character the late Scatman Crothers played in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining , the kind old-timer who has the uncanny ability to sense the otherworldly. Naturally, Chalk’s performance has homages to Crothers, but there are other familiar faces hidden within it too. He put a little Viola Davis in there. And Denzel Washington . And a dash of Philip Seymour Hoffman. “I learned so much from all of these people,” Chalk says.

Stephen King introduced Hallorann in his 1977 novel about the haunted hotel, but he brought him back for a cameo as a much younger man in his 1986 epic It . In that spraw