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Stars Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson are joined by filmmakers James Wan and Michael Chaves to discuss the end of the Warren's storyline in "The Conjuring" universe in "The Conjuring: Last Rites." Wilson and Farmiga discuss the bittersweet nature of their final days on set as Ed and Lorainne Warren, and why the horror genre is so fun to play in. James Wan teases some secrets that still remain uncovered in the Warren's artifact room, and the priorities he and the team behind "Last Rites" set out to fulfill in Ed and Lorraine's final chapter.

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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.

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