At Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina's End, These Are The Couples The Cast Ships

This article contains light spoilers for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Part 4.


Demon kings. Devil worship. Horned-up high schoolers. Across three parts of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Sabrina Spellman and her gang of witches and mortals overcame everything from the awkward messiness of first-time sex to going toe-to-hoof with Satan himself. Right now, because the series heads into its final installment, the crew faces a new challenge: moving on.


In July, because the coronavirus pandemic forced several shows and films to halt production, it was reported that the fourth piece of the Riverdale-ified coming-of-age series could be its last; yet not before Sabrina casts a compelling goodbye spell, certainly. In this installment, the Eldritch Terrors — ancient and immensely powerful supernatural beings known mononymously Because the Weird, The Uninvited, and thus on — arrive in Greendale. With the help of her human companions like Theo (Lachlan Watson) and Roz (Jaz Sinclair), and also her old fling, the warlock Nick Scratch (Gavin Leatherwood), Sabrina must face each creature one by one to prevent the end of all things. You know, regular teen stuff..


For the cast that's been with the series since day one, the finale drew mixed emotions. “I think it's such a brilliant way to wrap up this epic story that we've been telling for the past few years,” Kiernan Shipka, who plays the titular witch, tells MTV News. “I'm going to miss it dearly.” As Part 4 brings the story to a close, the cast of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina — Shipka, Sinclair, Watson, and Leatherwood — mirror on their preference moments, the most ship-worthy couples, and the joy of getting paid to create out.


MTV News: Knowing that this is the final installment in the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina story, how are you feeling post-filming and going into its release?


Kiernan Shipka: I am feeling bittersweet about it, as I'm sure we all are, nevertheless at the same time, I am so, so passionate about Part 4. I think it's such a brilliant way to wrap up this epic story that we've been telling for the past few years. I'm going to miss it dearly. So, all in all, optimistic, excited, sad, all of the things.


Jaz Sinclair: I'm just going to miss everybody. Yet, like Kiernan was saying, this next part is really good, and really exhilarating, and cosmic, and weird. I would love to go back and do another part, although I really think that folks are going to be happy with what we're giving them.


Gavin Leatherwood: The lovely women really covered a lot of it. I mean it, the sentiments are so similar. It is bittersweet. This part is incredibly ambitious and super creative and existential in so several ways. I feel fortunate and grateful to have been a piece of the complete damn thing. I'm stoked that the fans get one more part. It's a pretty bitchin' one.


Lachlan Watson: It's ambitious, for sure. Go out with a bang.


MTV News: In Part 4, you're facing the Eldritch Terrors. Which of the Terrors do you feel is the most terrifying of all?


Shipka: Oh my goodness. I think that ones that were not embodied by people were a little bit more scary, like The Darkness, any time it's this all-encompassing unknown. The Uninvited was a little bit scary, however he is a nice guy off set. And you also sort have a bit of an association with the people that are playing these Terrors. However any time it comes to something like The Darkness, I think that was just such a monumental terror and very, very scary.


Leatherwood: I also thought that The Weird was really disturbing.


Shipka: I love The Weird!


Leatherwood: It's probably one of my main go to Eldritch Terrors, yet seeing you get cut open and having a squid indoor you touched on that gory bit. And the squid tongue is just a disturbing thought. That one geeks me out a little, to be honest.


Shipka: The squid tongue was so fun. I sent so several selfies to my companions being like, “[I’m] at work!”


MTV News: I thought The Uninvited was sort of hot, to be honest.


Sinclair: Oh, dirty toe nails do it for you?


MTV News: He certainly reminded me of some of the guys I dated in high school.


Watson: in case you can compare your dating life to a Eldritch Terror, which one would it be?


Shipka: The Uninvited.


Leatherwood: The Perverse.


Sinclair: The Perverse is scary to me. With the other Eldritch Terrors, everybody understands something is wrong, so you're like, OK, something's certainly messed up. We’ve got to calculate what it is and fix it. However with The Perverse, where everybody's like, no, this is correctly regular and fully effed up, that's so scary to me. Like, are we stuck like this forever?


MTV News: do you know fans will be satisfied with the ending?


Shipka: Yeah. I do, I do. I really think that we approached Part 4 as our last. We wrapped it up. Whether or not people will be satisfied or irritated or happy, that is up to the viewer, yet I will mention that there really is a sense of closure. Happy? I don't know. Satisfied, probably.


Leatherwood: But is Nabrina end game?


Shipka: I don't know, we're not going to tell them. They can assume or guess.


MTV News: Yeah, which couples in the show do you ship?


Watson: Zelda and Mambo Marie.


Sinclair: Yes! Oh, they were so pretty, just gorgeous to look at. Whenever they kissed, because Miranda [Otto]'s skin is so fair and then Skye [P. Marshall]'s skin is so dark, they exchanged makeup, so Miranda could be brown, and Skye could be all white on her face. It was fantastic. I really like Theo and Robin, though. I really love their romance. I think it is so sweet and endearing, so authentic and wonderful.


Watson: I mean, @we could be with each other for eternity. It's the ultimate end game while you literally never die.


Leatherwood: I'm happy that Harvey noticed Rosalind because someone needed to hold his love away from Sabrina. I think that that relationship is damn good.


Sinclair: Well, also bad we have no chemistry, me and Ross [Lynch].


Leatherwood: You guys faked it so, so well.


Sinclair: I know, all giggles, all of the making out — horrible, hated going to work and making out with Ross day-to-day. It seemed like, oh, y'all don't pay me enough for this.


Shipka: Tough, really tough.


Watson: Yeah, I did have a couple days where I'd spend 16 hours making out with someone, and I'd be like, I get paid a reasonable quantity of cash to just show up and make out with somebody. It's pretty cool.


MTV News: Across all four parts, each of your characters had their own personalized challenges that they had to face. What do you feel was the greatest obstacle your character had to overcome?


Shipka: At points, Sabrina genuinely feels like the full world is resting on her shoulders, and it also honestly might be. That's naturally a big burden for a young woman. I think that her story is, witchiness aside, deeply relatable. It’s about finding yourself within a global that says you need to be one way based on how you were raised. She is just attempting to be herself and balance everything she wants in life without being constricted. The way that she has come into her own as a young witch, young woman, along with a friend is really inspiring to me.


Sinclair: Roz began off as just a mortal best friend and was routinely a little bit curious about the witchy stuff although sort of terrified, because her dad was super religious. Roz evolved to love that and then eventually become that... Which I love, because I'm such an enormous Harry Potter fan. I'm working on a film now [Please Baby Please] with Harry Melling, who played Dudley. I've never been starstruck before, and it also took me two days to mention hi. Every time I saw him, I would gush, leave, and then avoid him for, like, two days. Getting to be a witch and have the scene where they're like, “You're a wizard, Roz,” was literally a freaking dream come true for me.


Watson: [For Theo], I think finding their true self and really allowing themself to come into their own, and to be weak, and to break down their little caramel-shell exterior was a really interesting thing. I had a lot of that being a queer kid growing up and having to defeat my own expression of myself. It felt like I may just reach back inside time and, and have a bit of a do-over and do everything right, and to give myself over to the process.


Leatherwood: Nick is learning about how to love, for sure, and the variation between lusting right after someone and loving someone unconditionally. He was such a big flirt in Part 1, which I loved to play. As he continues, he's also learning about how to love himself. We visualize him self-destruct in a lot of Part 3, we visualize him lose his mother figure in Part 2, and there's routinely this tension or resistance to completely loving himself and giving himself over to Sabrina entirely.


MTV News: And what was your preference moment to act?


Leatherwood: I had the most enjoyable in Part 3. I got to beat up Richard [Coyle], I got to beat up Luke [Cook] with brass knuckles — and shirtless, mind you. I got put in chains numerous times, I was painted gold, I was made into a wall, I had a devil foot, I got to yell at Kiernan.


Watson: Well, anytime you get to yell at Kiernan is a good day.


Leatherwood: I don't know why, although that scene [in the woods while in the hair moon episode in Part 3] was just so fun. We got to conjure some crazy energy. It's not I'd like to yell at Kiernan, nevertheless having a certain emotional release and feeling something that isn't yours come through you is categorize kind of cathartic as an artist. While you have the freedom of a place like set and through a script, you get to go to a certain emotional level that you don't normally go to in your everyday life. I just really felt like that day was pulsing and alive.


Watson: Theo and Robin have a big climax moment and that scene was really, really brutal for a lot of reasons. There was a battle for closure for everybody, for me and [Jonathan Whitesell] and our characters. We had a hard day, going back and forth between having to be angry at each other and then, off scene, making sure that we were both OK and still functioning. It’s a tough balance, as an actor, keeping your mental health in check along with serving the character.


Sinclair: Probably my main go to scene to shoot was with the new weird sisters — me, Tati [Gabrielle], and Skye. It’s the scene where I’m proving that I'm witchy enough for frigging Prudence, immediately after she's pretending like she doesn't know who I am. That scene was just so cool because it felt so powerful on the day. We were in this spooky room and we were all just so in the zone.


Leatherwood: You can feel that in the scene also, Jaz. As soon as I watched, I was like, damn, Rosalind is a badass and that scene is super electric.


Shipka: I will constantly hold that first dark baptism pretty close to my heart. I know none of you guys were actually there for it, which is—


Leatherwood: We didn't get the invite. Must have got lost in the mail or something.


Shipka: It's order kind of like, I don't know, a family member thing. Anyway, that was one of my first night shoots that I'd done on the show. We were all just delirious also it was hilarious. Nevertheless Mandrake Sabrina was probably my main go to to play.


Watson: I like that once you had the contacts in, you'd cross your eyes a little, also. It was amazing.