00:00To be honest with you, I would have loved to have continued, but I just don't see how
00:04that's possible after like, like we would have to explode.
00:13I mean, it's been an incredible journey.
00:1512 years is really an impressive thing.
00:17And so thank you for the movies and thank you for taking the time today.
00:20Eric, I've loved aging with these characters.
00:23It's like, it is so rare for you to be able to do that, you know, and to grow with the
00:28character and have an audience grow with you and like grow in comfort and in friendship
00:33with him.
00:34And it's, it's, it's been, it's, it's been awesome.
00:37And to be honest with you, I would have loved to have continued, but I just don't see how
00:42that's possible after like, after the stakes that we, that we hit with this one, like we
00:48would have to explode.
00:49We would have to, on camera, we would have to combust.
00:54We felt the most important thing was to be able to say farewell to the cinematic Anne and
01:01Lorraine in a way that felt emotional and that justified, you know, the franchise and what
01:08fans have come to love about this particular series, right?
01:12You know, I always say people come to the Conjuring films for the scares, but they really stick
01:17around for Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson's right there, their version of Anne and Lorraine.
01:23And, uh, and that was basically mission one was to, uh, be able to wrap up this series
01:29in a way that was emotional.
01:30Um, and, uh, but one that also felt uplifting as well at the same time.
01:36There was, we, we had a couple, you know, kind of, uh, round table sessions where we were
01:41like, you know, just opening it up to all the ideas of what it could be.
01:44And one of them was a kind of an end game, sort of like, let's throw all the demons in
01:49there.
01:50Let's kind of do, do everything.
01:51There is something about that that feels kind of natural as like, okay, we're going to just
01:55do the, the full rogues gallery.
01:57But one of the things that I kept on coming back to is I love Logan and I love how with
02:01Logan, it has this great sense of conclusion through the characters and through this great
02:07emotional relationship.
02:08I always just use that as like a, um, a North stars, you know, that I wanted to have that
02:13same emotional conclusion.
02:15It's hard for us to grasp the end because it has been that, like you said, nomadic lifestyle,
02:23which we have as actors anyway.
02:24But yet there was always that constant, like every couple of years for me, it's like, all
02:31right, start growing the sideburns, getting ready for, you know, you, you knew it was coming.
02:35Like, that's, what's going to be the strangest to me is to just like, go like, when, when
02:42am I going to see her, you know, it's not over yet.
02:45Like we're still in it.
02:47Like we're, we're holding this thing and we haven't shown it to the fans yet.
02:51Right.
02:51So the pearl, the pearl, like the, the clams in our hands, but we haven't shown them it.
02:56So we're in it.
02:57We don't feel like it's over a couple of years from now.
03:00We'll be like, did not call it.
03:02That's it.
03:02It'll be like in a year and a half, it'll be like, that's my tartan skirts.
03:07Like where's, where's, like, what's going on?
03:11What's the new idea?
03:12Yeah, that, that, that's true.
03:13It'll be them.
03:15St. Michael defend us, be our safeguard against the devil.
03:22The great thing about this genre is you get to really, really stretch out if you get a good one.
03:28Right. And we've had a bunch of good ones here to, to play a romance and this epic Greek tragedy and
03:36damning things to hell.
03:38I mean, you just, you just talk about chewing the scenery.
03:41These movies demand that of you and rarely as actors, certainly in contemporary film,
03:46so much of it, you're usually very stated and steady.
03:51And even if your character is a little wacky, you rarely get to show the colors that you get
03:55to do on these movies.
03:57And that's just, and it's not for everybody.
03:59Like it's.
04:00No, it's not for everyone because there's whole levels of exploration.
04:03Like you don't get to explore spiritual aspects to people, to this degree or psychic aspects.
04:10Like you get the physical, you get the emotional, you get the cerebral, you get, you know, but this
04:15is a whole dimension and going down those rabbit holes is like taxing.
04:22Knowing that this is going to potentially be Vera Farmiga's last time playing Lorraine.
04:27I mean, were there conversations about just trying to find some way to get sister Irene
04:32in play and have Taisa and Vera on screen?
04:35Oh man, we were dying to, I was like, I've been dying to try and get them together.
04:39And, you know, I was even trying to do that in The Nun 2 and bring them together.
04:44It's, um, it's funny.
04:45It just never quite lined up.
04:47I mean, we were so, it's so tantalizing too.
04:50You kind of just feel like, oh my God, why haven't we closed the loop on it?
04:54I know some people are going to be like, why didn't you do us?
04:56You robbed us of the two sisters.
04:59If anyone like it, fans of the series should go see Vera's movie Higher Ground if they haven't
05:05seen it because they actually get to see it's, it's a movie that
05:09Vera directed and she's, she's in it.
05:11And then Taisa plays her, her younger self.
05:14And so they don't play opposite each other, but it's kind of amazing to see them
05:17like in the same movie.
05:19And, you know, I recommend that to anyone.
05:21When I visited the set of Annabelle Comes Home a few years ago,
05:25I remember being in the artifact room and learning about a certain secret door
05:29that had been put in there to kind of like potentially seed for future stories.
05:34Were there discussions about that?
05:35Well, can you take me through the kind of like the full creative history of that door?
05:38Uh, you know, I don't really have too much to say about the secret room,
05:44but, uh, but who knows?
05:46Maybe the secret room could be its own spinoff one day if we do establish it.
05:51But, uh, you know, I, I think the mindset was that the secret room was going to potentially
05:57contain things that were even too big to be displayed.
06:00If you get once we start, there's no going back.
06:05Man! Man! Man!
06:08Anything can happen.
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