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- “I’m like, ‘There’s no f*cking way.’ I mean, I guess the lore is that you forget when you’re in Derry, but I don’t buy it.” Watch on Deadline Related Stories News Taylour Paige Had “Time Of My Life” Filming ‘I Love Boosters’ While “Pregnant As Hell”: “Lucky To Be Alive At The Same Time As Boots Riley” Agencies Taylour Paige Inks With WME Although Paige conceded that “maybe it makes sense for 1962 that you kind of shut up and you get back to business, you get back to being a homemaker, and you’re the nucleus of the family, I guess.” “I wanted more for Charlotte and this family, but I think it would have been maybe too radical for Charlotte to leave,” added Paige.
- “And also too radical for women of 1962 to be like, ‘I’m out.’ That was very rare.
- It just didn’t really happen then, right?
- Most people stayed in loveless marriages.
- Most women, I think, were martyrs had to deny themselves to keep the family together.” Taylour Paige as Charlotte Hanlon in ‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ Paige explained that she relates to Charlotte’s “incredible well of empathy” even more now that she’s become a mother after filming the series, noting how the character’s protective nature over Will drives her to help Hank Grogan (Stephen Rider) escape a wrongful murder conviction, despite Leroy’s disapproval of her “damn fool missions.” “It’s also, I think, being a mother—at least I can speak to it now after, I wasn’t a mother when I was shooting—but I think becoming a mother gives you these superpowers, and this super kind of compassion,” she said adding: “So, I was happy that was a nice way to kind of get a little bit of more of Charlotte’s inner world and the way that she thinks, and what she believes in, kind of gives you a little bit more color than just like, she’s at home cooking, stewing.” Read on about Taylour Paige’s experience bringing Charlotte Hanlon to life on IT: Welcome to Derry, as well as her serendipitous connection to co-creator Barbara Muschietti.
