Following the suspenseful season three finale, season four of SERVANT will bring the final chapter of the Turner story to an epic and emotional conclusion. Leanne’s war with the Church of Lesser Saints heightens, threatening Spruce street, the city of Philadelphia, and beyond. Meanwhile, the shattered Turner family must not only confront the increasing threat of Leanne, but the certain reality that Dorothy is waking up. As the Turner family brownstone continues to crumble, questions are finally answered: who is Leanne Grayson and who is the child in their home?

Ahead of the premiere of season four of SERVANT, Nightmarish Conjurings’ Sarah Musnicky spoke with cast members Lauren Ambrose, Nell Tiger Free, and Toby Kebbell, where they discussed where we see their characters at the beginning of the journey, seeing the series come to an end, and more.

SERVANT – The beginning of the end

With this being the final season of SERVANT, everything is coming to a head. This question is for everyone. How does it feel knowing that this is all coming to an end?

Nell Tiger Free: It’s really bittersweet. It is really bittersweet because this has been such a big part of my life. [For] the past four, five years of my life, I’ve been living in this world. So have Toby [Kebbell], Lauren [Ambrose], Rupert [Grint], and everyone who worked on the show, and it’s such a specific show. It’s so contained, and it’s so small, cast-wise, that it really forces you to spend all of your time together. As much as we have loved doing that, it means we’re really in this together from beginning to end. No one on the planet will ever be able to experience what we experienced together, and it’s been such a unique experience.

Saying goodbye to it…I think it hasn’t quite sunk in for me yet, because we’re still answering questions with you lovely people, and we have the premiere and we have the show still to come out. So it still feels like we’ve got a little piece of SERVANT to look forward to, and I think when that all comes to an end and the chapter is finally closed, I think that’s when I’ll probably hide in my house for a week and just weep.

Weeping definitely sounds like a plan. Get plenty of ice cream, and maybe steal some of Sean’s food. Sneak back into the kitchen and make yourself something. [laughs] I know we can’t discuss spoilers, so we’ll have to talk around it a bit. But where do we find your characters at the start of this season?

Toby Kebbell: Well, we start out with Nell in a car and birds and smoke and ice cream. That was the beginning. We start off with Nell. We follow that because everyone else is dealing with what happened at the end of three. Tragedy. I honestly thought Lauren was not gonna [come back]…like what? You’ve fallen off the banister from the top!

Lauren Ambrose: I was looking at my contract and was like, they would still have to pay me.

Toby Kebbell: And then, we were watching the stunt woman do these phenomenal stunts, bouncing off the things, and then they were like, all right, Lauren. So now you’re going up. This scene’s horrific! We’re all dealing with that. Basically, that’s where you find us.

Lauren Ambrose: I’m dealing with recovering in a scary medical bed. There were sort of crutches, wheelchairs, and bizarre…

Toby Kebbell: You can’t have had more props.

Lauren Ambrose: It was like a dungeon of medical aids.

To wrap things up, what was the most rewarding part of this series for you?

Lauren Ambrose: Working with these amazing actors. Working with all these incredible artists, M. Night and this production assembled an incredibly talented group of people to bring their artistry forward. Honestly, for me, in this genre, we’re doing the scene on one level, and then you go back and watch it and you realize what everybody’s artistry is adding to the feeling of making it really scary at times. So even more so than other genres, people’s artistry in every department, I feel, shines.

Toby Kebbell: And getting to finish. Getting to resolve it. Getting to answer the questions, you know? Very rewarding.

Nell Tiger Free: Yeah, I think being able to take these four characters from where they were and be able to create these entire human beings, these entire personalities who have lived lives; we all got the chance to just develop and keep creating these people. I can say that I’ve brought a character from her beginning to her natural end. There’s quite an experience.

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SERVANT Season 4 premieres on Apple TV+ on Friday, January 13, 2023. Learn more about the latest season in our review here!