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Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson are getting sentimental as filming wraps on "The Conjuring: Last Rites."
Here's to one of the realest fakest marriages out there.
The Conjuring's two lead stars, Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, are getting sentimental about their onscreen relationship as they close up shop filming The Conjuring: Last Rites, their last movie together in the franchise. Wilson, in particular, noted how their "fake marriage has lasted longer than many real ones."
"As the sun sets on the Conjuring franchise…I am overwhelmed," Wilson, who plays Ed Warren, a renown demonologist alongside his clairvoyant wife, Lorraine (Farmiga), wrote in an Instagram post published Friday. "There aren’t enough thanks to go around for the thousands of people who’ve contributed to the making of these films…and the millions who’ve watched them."
To his onscreen ball and chain, Farmiga, "What to say?" he continued. "Our fake marriage has lasted longer than many real ones. I adore you."
He also paid tribute to filmmaker Michael Chaves, who directed previous franchise installments The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) and The Nun II (2023), and now helms Last Rites, coming to theaters next year. (He also directed The Curse of La Llorona, but as Chaves previously explained to Entertainment Weekly, it's not technically part of the Conjuring-verse.) "You have beautifully taken the reins and I can’t WAIT to see this one put together," Wilson wrote, in addition to calling out other key figures, like the franchise architects James Wan and Peter Safran.
On Thursday, Farmiga shared a framed wedding photo of Ed and Lorraine to Instagram. "Roundabout 5,000 days ago, this guy and I signed a WB contract and said 'I do' to embodying Ed and Lorraine Warren. Today, he wraps. I have another 12 hours of laughter and insanity with him and then abruptly, he will walk off set, peel off sweat-soaked demonologist garb, shave off his side burns, flash that dazzling smile and bid our fake marriage adieu," she wrote. "Yeah…I got them feels today. It was a match made in heaven, PWilz. A hell of an era. Here’s to 12 years."
Related: What The Nun II post-credits scene means for the Conjuring universe
Wilson and Farmiga first appeared as the characters in 2013's The Conjuring, directed by Wan, and that film became so successful it erupted into an Avengers-like cinematic horror universe with a global following. That includes standalone Annabelle movies about the creepy doll from that first entry, as well as two The Nun films, starring Farmiga's sister Taissa as Sister Irene.
Plot details about The Conjuring: Last Rites are being kept under wraps for the most part, but Chaves previously confirmed to EW that the post-credits scene of The Nun II, which saw Ed and Lorraine receiving a call about a possessed priest, Father Gordon (Steve Coulter), will lead directly into the events of Wilson and Farmiga's last film.
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"This is going to be that final chapter, so it is a little bit of a tease of that," Chaves said in an interview conducted last year. "I think what makes this film so cool, makes The Nun so cool, is that, from the very beginning, the possession of Maurice was one of these center point elements in the Conjuring universe," the director added. "It was in the first Conjuring, it's definitely a pivotal event in the entire universe."
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Responding in the comments section of Wilson's Instagram post, Wan wrote in commemoration of his actors, "The characters that you and Vera have breathed life into will endure forever. Not every day we get to create this kind of cinematic legacy. Thank you, buddy. Forever indebted to you. Though Connery taught us to never say never!!"
