Castle Rock: Jane Levy confirms Jackie’s relation to famous Stephen King character 

Castle Rock: Jane Levy confirms Jackie’s relation to famous Stephen King character

Jane Levy tells us that her Jackie character on Castle Rock indeed shares a relationship with a famous Stephen King character...

This article contains spoilers from the first several episodes of Castle Rock.

In a series set in the enigmatic and mysterious world of Stephen King, enigmatic and mysterious easter eggs abound. Yet few might be as curious as Jane Levy’s Jackie. Introduced briefly in the first several

episodes that Hulu has so far released, we can at least gather Jackie is something of an amateur historian for her menacing hometown… and that her last name is Torrance. It’s a blink and you miss it name drop during the second episode, however it is evident that Jackie Torrance’s name shares a lot of similarity to one of King’s most famous creations: Jack, Wendy and Danny Torrance of

. And as Jane Levy confirmed to Den of Geek\'s US site during an interview at San Diego Comic-Con, this is not a coincidence.

“Yes, Jackie does have a close relation with a famous King character,” Levy cryptically smiles when I ask if her character’s last name is intentionally familiar. When we follow up with whether that relationship is familial, her smile only widens, “Possibly.”

Jack Torrance, and Jack’s son, Danny Torrance, were the lead characters of

. In that early and iconic King novel, Jack is driven mad by the presence of ghosts (and ghostly alcohol) in the Overlook Hotel, eventually chasing his son with a croquet mallet. Danny, meanwhile, has since grown up and appeared in another King nove

, (which is being adapted into a movie with Ewan McGregor attached to star). While Levy certainly kept it vague if Danny might be visiting his distant cousin in Castle Rock any time soon, she does give us some further context for her character, who we only have a cursory introduction of in the early episodes.

“She is the town taxi driver and she\'s also the self-proclaimed historian of Castle Rock,” Levy explains. “And I think in a way she chose to be a taxi driver, because she could just get into other people\'s business all the time.”

Yet when we ask how she reacts when the legend of Castle Rock’s supposedly supernatural past comes true, Levy adds, “Her wish does come true in the series of this 10-episode time period, where the things she’s grown up hearing about start to materialize in front of her. And I think she does feel a little conflicted about that. Definitely excited, but maybe also a little bit scared.”

continues with more surprises, more King references (Levy’s favorite involves

…), and more episodes. The next hits streaming on Wednesday, Aug. 1.

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