Pennywise wasn’t the only horror whose child stars This: Welcome to Derry encountered while making Season 1. Bill Skarsgård’s titular IT can be scary, but so can the natural passage of time, especially when working with child stars.
In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Welcome to Derry co-creator/executive producer Barbara Muschietti revealed how the 2023 Hollywood strikes prompted the film’s production. He the prequel series will go on hiatus for almost a year. When production finally resumed, the horrors the crew faced on the first day back were all related to the show’s young actors, all of whom were experiencing growth spurts: “We experienced it from the moment we started filming. The clothes didn’t fit, they’d grown a few inches…. We were basically bouncing around, waiting until the strike was over to go straight in front of the camera,” remarked Muschietti.
A streaming show with child stars usually doesn’t have to deal with the actors aging out of their roles during the first season; However, strikes in Hollywood were an unpredictable problem that Welcome to Derry had to deal with it. With the He With the prequel set to premiere later this month, fans won’t have to wait long to see if the child stars’ growth spurts will be noticeable enough to break the suspension of disbelief.
Audiences have become more vocal in recent years about their dissatisfaction with streaming shows, especially those that require a lot of post-production work like Stranger Things And Percy Jacksontaking several years to release a new season, as their child stars age out of their roles despite having little time spent in the worlds of the series. Even if it’s too late to Stranger Things, Percy Jackson responds head-on to these criticisms, with production well underway on the season 3 months before the return of season 2 on Disney+ in December.
Welcome to Derry probably won’t have more problems with aging child stars
Apart from any new strike in Hollywood (or other pandemic), Welcome to Derry should no longer have to deal with aging child stars, since each season of the series He the prequel will feature a new group of characters. Co-creator/director Andy Muschietti has previously revealed the anthological approach to Welcome to Derryexplaining in January 2025 how the series is based on “the interludes of [It] book,” which dealt with “catastrophic events of the past, such as the Black Spot fire…. the massacre of the Bradley Gang, a gang of bank robbers in the 1930s… and the explosion of the Kitchener steel factory. Every time [Pennywise] comes out of hibernation, a catastrophic event occurs at the start of this cycle. »
Season 1 of Welcome to Derry takes place 27 years before the events of Muschietti. Hein 1962, with future seasons set to take place even further in the past. “We are basing all three seasons of this series on each of these catastrophic events,” Muschietti added. “There’s a reason the story is told backwards. So the first season is from 1962, the second season from 1935, and the third season from 1908.”
Of course, the public will have to tune in when This: Welcome to Derry premieres on HBO and HBO Max on October 26 to ensure that the Muschiettis and Jason Fuchs can complete their final chapter in Warner Bros. He franchise.
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October 26, 2025
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HBO
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Andy Muschietti
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Bill Skarsgard
Pennywise
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