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‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Ending Cameos Explained: The One That Got Away

The wedding reunion brings back selected faces from earlier Conjuring films, while Taissa Farmiga’s Sister Irene remains the cameo that got away. Here’s what the ending and credits mirror reveal mean.
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Spoilers for The Conjuring: Last Rites. The wedding at the end brings back familiar faces from the earlier Conjuring films, but one hoped-for guest never appears: Taissa Farmiga’s Sister Irene. Director Michael Chaves said Farmiga was unavailable, and that Irene’s family connection to Lorraine and the timeline made the cameo difficult to fit. The final mirror image, meanwhile, is a credits epilogue—not a new scene announcing a specific sequel.

Who returns for Judy and Tony’s wedding?

The wedding gathers characters from the three earlier Conjuring films. Recognizable returning guests include:

  • Lili Taylor as Carolyn Perron and Mackenzie Foy as Cindy Perron, from The Conjuring.
  • Frances O’Connor as Peggy Hodgson and Madison Wolfe as Janet Hodgson, from The Conjuring 2.
  • Julian Hilliard as David Glatzel, from The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.
  • Franchise filmmaker James Wan.

These are returns by selected actors and characters, not the entire cast of the earlier films. Chaves told CinemaBlend that the reunion was in the first draft. New Line executive Dave Neustadter encouraged the filmmakers to bring as many familiar faces into the scene as they could. The invitation list was wider than the final gathering: scheduling and travel prevented some people from participating.

Why isn’t Sister Irene at the wedding?

The cameo Chaves wanted but could not film was Taissa Farmiga as Sister Irene, the lead character of The Nun films. According to GamesRadar+, Chaves said he texted Farmiga about appearing briefly, but she was shooting another project. That is the practical reason the cameo did not happen.

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Chaves also described a separate story problem. Irene is a distant relative of Lorraine, and fitting her into the wedding across the films’ timelines risked expanding the scene and complicating its chronology. As reproduced by GamesRadar+, he said: “The idea of bringing in this long-lost relative in Sister Irene, and then also dealing with the difference of age, was too complex once you did the math. It would’ve become too big and too sprawling.”

So Irene was not left out because the wedding’s fictional guests rejected her. The reported explanation is a combination of Farmiga’s schedule and the creative difficulty of making the relationship and ages work in a brief reunion.

What the wedding ending means for Ed and Lorraine

After the Smurl haunting, Judy and Tony’s wedding shifts the focus from the case to the family’s future. Lorraine imagines the life she and Ed might share: grandchildren, a book, and growing old together. ComicBook.com describes her accompanying reflection as expressing the faith and love that enabled the Warrens to do good in the face of evil.

Read as an ending, the scene gives the Warrens a personal, family-centered farewell. The returned families make it a broader farewell to the series, too: people the Warrens encountered across the films gather for Judy’s milestone, while the reunion recalls the franchise’s history. That is an interpretation of what the scene accomplishes, rather than a definitive statement of the filmmakers’ intent.

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What the final mirror image reveals—and what it doesn’t

The mirror appears in the credits epilogue, alongside archival photos and video of the real Ed and Lorraine Warren. The closing image shows Ed standing before the mirror, followed by text identifying it as a “conjure mirror” kept in the Warrens’ home museum. ComicBook.com and Us Weekly describe this as the credits’ final reveal.

The tag links the mirror in the film to the franchise’s “conjure mirror” label. It is an epilogue, not a new narrative scene that names or sets up a particular sequel. The label and the film’s supernatural story are part of the movie’s presentation; they do not establish supernatural claims about the real object.

The movie also frames the mirror in its main story: it revisits an earlier Warren case at the opening and returns to the object through the Smurl family. The Associated Press says the film opens in 1964 and later moves to the 1980s; Us Weekly identifies the main story’s year as 1986. Those dates describe the movie’s timeline, not proof that the fictionalized events happened exactly as shown in real life.

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