[This story contains spoilers from It : Welcome to Derry episode five, “29 Neibolt Street.”]

With each passing week on It: Welcome to Derry , Chris Chalk further proves he was the ideal choice to fill the big shoes of Stephen King-verse character Dick Hallorann.

Following in the footsteps of previous on-screen Dick Hallorann portrayals — including Scatman Crothers (1980’s The Shining ), Melvin van Peebles (1997’s Shining miniseries) and Carl Lumbly (2019’s Doctor Sleep ) — may seem like a tall order, but the North Carolina native learned long ago through working with the likes of Denzel Washington, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Viola Davis that one must command their own respect to succeed. Chalk certainly revisited these previous takes on the psychic who inherited his gif

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