Chucky’s Devon Sawa Calls Season 3’s Back Half ‘Our Best Work,’ Breaks Down That Gory Episode 5 Ending
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The following contains spoilers for Episode 5 of Chucky Season 3.
Devon Sawa realizes how special his gig on Chucky has been. Just one day before the premiere of Season 3, Part 2 — the episode where Sawa (you were warned!) gets killed off the series for the fourth time — the actor tells TVLine that this could be it. For real this time.
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“This could be the last interview I ever do for Chucky,” he says. “I hope it’s not. I hope that we get a Season 4 and I hope that I’m in it.”
In Chucky’s big return, President Collins and his family are reeling from the tragedy that occurred in the White House on the night of its big Halloween celebration. As Collins hears the ghostly voice of his dead son, supernatural visions begin to flood 1600 Penn’s walls, leading him to start believing Henry’s stories about what’s really going on in Washington. But in the episode’s final moments, the killer doll smashes a piggy bank over his head, rips his face open and plucks his eyeballs right out.
And with that, it’s lights out for Collins… and possibly Sawa, too. But the actor isn’t numb to the fact that Don Mancini’s horror tale has been a privilege to work on.
“When I got Season 1, it was one and done,” he says. “I was dying in Episode 1. I was dying in Episode 7. ‘Let’s just go up to Toronto. Let’s have some fun and I’ll go look for something different after this ends.’ After they killed me in Episode 7, that’s when Don approached me and said, ‘Hey, how do you feel about coming back for another season?’ It’s flattering and man, it’s just been such a ride. It’s just so interesting to see what he’s going to give me next. I’m very aware that it’s a once in a lifetime kind of gig. I don’t think I’ll ever get [another] job where I play multiple characters throughout the show.”
As he fondly remembers his time spent, well, getting repeatedly murdered, Sawa clues us in on how much work goes into just a single kill on a show like this. Filming Collins’ death scene alone took “three or four” days of work to complete, he says.
“We do it over multiple days,” he says. “We obviously start with just me and the puppet, and then I went through prosthetics and a makeup day. You do it in stages. To see it all put together is very cool.”
Sawa, who was a fan of the Child’s Play franchise before boarding the show, says his time spent on Chucky feels most like his experience on the 1999 teen horror-comedy, Idle Hands.
“Idle Hands was the most fun I ever had shooting a movie,” he says. “We shot it for two months. We were young. It was buckets of blood and jokes and fun. There’s obviously drama and serious stuff and deep scenes [on Chucky], but we also have a really good time shooting it. It’s so bizarre, sometimes you can’t help but laugh. It feels good to get in the van every morning and go off to work because that day you’re running from a doll, or you’re getting splashed in the face with a bucket of blood or just something wacky. It’s not a hard day. It’s a lot of fun to do.”
While the fates of Jake, Devon, Lexy, Caroline and Old Chucky still hang in the balance (the Season 3 finale is set to air Wednesday, May 1), Sawa is already on board for more, should Mancini come calling again.
“I hope we do five or six more seasons just because I want to see what other people he puts in front of me to become.”
He adds: “Everybody says this, obviously, but I truly think this back half of Season 3 is our best work, collectively, as a cast and crew. We just go for it and it works. I think people are going to be really happy with it.”
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