{"id":678999,"date":"2025-07-08T03:10:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-sandman-star-ruairi-oconnor-breaks-down-that-fatal-choice\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T03:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T00:10:29","slug":"the-sandman-star-ruairi-oconnor-breaks-down-that-fatal-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-sandman-star-ruairi-oconnor-breaks-down-that-fatal-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Sandman\u2019 Star Ruairi O\u2019Connor Breaks Down That Fatal Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bcdbe798e1\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bcdbe798e1\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-sandman-star-ruairi-oconnor-breaks-down-that-fatal-choice\/#Like_Father_Like_Son\" >Like Father, Like Son<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-sandman-star-ruairi-oconnor-breaks-down-that-fatal-choice\/#The_Song_%E2%80%94_and_Disembodied_Head_%E2%80%94_of_Orpheus\" >The Song \u2014 and Disembodied Head! \u2014 of Orpheus<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-sandman-star-ruairi-oconnor-breaks-down-that-fatal-choice\/#A_Bittersweet_Reunion\" >A Bittersweet Reunion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>[This story contains major spoilers from Part 1 of season two of <em>The Sandman<\/em>, including episode five, \u201cThe Song of Orpheus,\u201d and six, \u201cFamily Blood.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn the world of <em>The Sandman<\/em>, the Endless are strictly prohibited from spilling family blood. But in the first volume of the hit Netflix fantasy drama\u2019s second and final season, protagonist Dream a.k.a. Morpheus (Tom Sturridge) decides to break that sacred vow out of love for his estranged son Orpheus (Ruairi O\u2019Connor), even if doing so could force the former to pay the ultimate price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAdapted from DC Comics\u2019 seventh collection in the <em>Sandman<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>, <em>Brief Lives<\/em>, along with single-issue stories such as <em>The Song of Orpheus<\/em> and <em>Thermidor<\/em>,<em> <\/em>the fifth and sixth episodes of Part 1 shed light on the heartbreaking yet heartwarming relationship between Dream and Orpheus, whose mother was the Greek muse Calliope (Melissanthi Mahut).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn 1700 BC, the Endless siblings gathered in Greece to watch Orpheus marry Eurydice (Ella Rumpf) \u2014 only for Eurydice to die of a viper bite on the night of their wedding. Consumed by his own grief, Orpheus went against his father\u2019s wishes and made a deal with his aunt, Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste). In exchange for an opportunity to journey to the Underworld to plead for Eurydice\u2019s return, Orpheus naively agreed to become immortal, telling everyone he encountered that he would give anything to spend \u201ca lifetime or an hour more\u201d with the love of his life. Orpheus is even able to charm Hades and Persephone with a love song in the Underworld, but Orpheus\u2019 failure to meet their one condition for Eurydice\u2019s release \u2014 he wasn\u2019t allowed to look back at her until they were both back in the living world \u2014 meant that the two lovers would be separated forever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWith nothing left to live for, Orpheus put himself in the path of the Sisters of the Frenzy, a vicious cult of Dionysus, who attacked and dismembered him, reducing him to only a severed head. Desperately wanting to be put out of his misery, Orpheus begged his father to kill him, but Dream could not bring himself to administer the <em>coup de gr\u00e2ce<\/em>. Instead, Dream left Orpheus\u2019 head in the indefinite care of priests on an uncharted island off the coast of Greece and told his son they could never see each other again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cOrpheus was idealistic, and he hoped he could go down to the Underworld and rescue Eurydice and everything would be OK \u2014 and certainly not that he\u2019d be separated from Eurydice,\u201d O\u2019Connor, who was already \u201creally familiar with Greek mythology in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>\u201d prior to auditioning for <em>The Sandman<\/em>, tells <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>. \u201cIf he died in a normal time, he would\u2019ve gone to the Underworld and he would\u2019ve possibly been with Eurydice down there. But now, it\u2019s almost guaranteed he\u2019s one of the only people who will never see Eurydice, and he won\u2019t be able to move his body because it\u2019s gone. His father had warned him that this would h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Like_Father_Like_Son\"><\/span>\n\t\tLike Father, Like Son\t<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAs a superfan of the original <em>Sandman<\/em> comics for decades, showrunner Allan Heinberg had always wanted to adapt Dream\u2019s relationship with Orpheus, whose arrival was teased during the press run for season one. \u201cWith Orpheus, Dream is warmer and more unguarded than he is even with Calliope,\u201d Heinberg tells <em>THR<\/em>, remarking that Dream\u2019s discouragement of Orpheus\u2019 plan to sacrifice his life for Eurydice\u2019s was what any protective parent would have done in Dream\u2019s position. (<em>Read THR\u2019s full interview with Heinberg about volume one here<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAfter Orpheus was decapitated in the comics, Heinberg says, Dream always seemed like \u201can Old Testament God\u201d who was punishing his rebellious son for disobeying an order. But in his two-season adaptation of creator Neil Gaiman\u2019s comics, Heinberg has been more interested in exploring the emotional cost of the King of Dreams\u2019 job on his relationships as a brother, lover and father. In keeping with that theme, although the dialogue onscreen is nearly identical to that of the comics, the showrunner wanted to show Dream\u2019s heartbreak over not being able to help save his son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cThe reason [Dream] says, \u2018We will not see each other again,\u2019 is that Dream can\u2019t handle [seeing him like that],\u201d says Heinberg. \u201cFrom that point of view, as Dream\u2019s walking away from Orpheus, we can see that he is absolutely shattered instead of stone-faced and punishing. You understand how hard this is for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThrough his extensive discussions with Heinberg, O\u2019Connor came to understand that Orpheus\u2019 initial, childlike animosity toward Dream stemmed from feeling abandoned by his father, who had chosen to prioritize his responsibilities to humanity over his own family. \u201cIt reminded me a bit of, like, if Abraham Lincoln was your father \u2014 he belongs to you a little bit because he\u2019s your father, but he belongs to everybody else as well. I think that can be quite hard on a child,\u201d explains O\u2019Connor. \u201cIt\u2019s such a surprise for [Dream] to be at [Orpheus\u2019] wedding that it\u2019s a little bit overwhelming \u2014 and almost foreboding that he is there as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHeinberg adds, \u201cThe way that Dream and Orpheus speak to each other at the end of episode six is very different from the way they speak to each other in episode five. You\u2019ve got hundreds of years of regret and recrimination in episode five. They\u2019re very much father and son \u2014 \u2018I tell you what to do and how to behave, and you do it because I am your father, and I know more than you.\u2019 By the end of it, there are just two people who love each other enormously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tO\u2019Connor could feel the weight of that father-son relationship when acting opposite Sturridge, whom he first saw perform opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in the Broadway production of <em>Sea Wall\/A Life<\/em> in 2019. Even though Sturridge is only five or six years older, \u201cit felt like I was coming to play with someone who was a good few steps above me. I had the reverence to feel like, \u2018This man\u2019s a thousand years older than me in certain regards,\u2019\u201d O\u2019Connor says. \u201cI think that energy \u2014 that struggle \u2014 of really trying to live up to him and not being able to do it, but honestly trying to do it, helped [those scenes].\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHe adds of Sturridge, \u201cHe also looks amazing. You look at his face and you\u2019re like, \u2018Why can\u2019t my face look like that?\u2019 I really respect him and am envious of him in many ways, and I hope that gels with what we were trying to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Song_%E2%80%94_and_Disembodied_Head_%E2%80%94_of_Orpheus\"><\/span>\n\t\tThe Song \u2014 and Disembodied Head! \u2014 of Orpheus\t<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tO\u2019Connor, on more than one occasion, tells <em>THR<\/em> that he thinks the gods were smiling down on him during his time on <em>The Sandman<\/em>. Last year, after multiple rounds of self-tape auditions, the Irish actor \u2014 best known for his work in <em>The Spanish Princess<\/em> and <em>The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It<\/em> \u2014 landed the role just weeks before he was scheduled to begin filming. He began obsessively poring over all the comics involving Orpheus. He even learned how to play the lyre, even though he never had to play his character\u2019s instrument of choice on camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut the most challenging aspect of the role was learning how to sing in Greek. \u201cIt was just <em>impossible<\/em>, so I ended up chanting and listening to it. It became hypnotic, almost like mantras in my head,\u201d O\u2019Connor recalls. \u201cI felt like I was going crazy just trying to get the Greek into me, and then knowing on the day that I was going to have to sing it and that it\u2019s going to have to certainly match my mouth movements and everything as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn addition to singing live on the day, the actor recorded the final version of Orpheus\u2019 songs at Abbey Road Studios. \u201cI\u2019m not religious, so music is probably the closest thing. My voice was a bit rough that day, so [the producers] were like, \u2018Come down to studio two where the Beatles recorded, and we\u2019ll warm up your voice,\u201d O\u2019Connor recalls, sheepishly revealing that he ended up bringing his best friend that day and the two sang \u201cHey Jude\u201d on the piano as a warm-up. \u201cI don\u2019t know \u2014 it made me feel like music does have the power that Orpheus imbues in it, that it changes lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1296px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((730\/1296)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/The_Sandman_u_S2_E5_00_39_53_07R-H-2025.jpg?w=1296\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"730\" width=\"1296\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"a-font-secondary-s lrv-u-margin-r-025\">Ruairi O\u2019Connor as Orpheus and Barry Sloane as Destruction in season two, episode five.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"a-font-accent-uppercase-xs lrv-u-color-grey-dark\">Courtesy Of Netflix<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTo play Orpheus after his body has been ripped apart, O\u2019Connor had to get a cast made of his own head. \u201cThe amazing thing with the casts is they have all the other heads they\u2019ve done over the years. I had Brad Pitt\u2019s head in my hands, and I was looking at the shape of his head to see why he\u2019s so handsome,\u201d O\u2019Connor quips. \u201cIt is a surprisingly small head! I was like, \u2018Maybe that\u2019s the key.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cThey had three heads that they made up, and one of them was impeccably me and the others were for more wide shots, and I was like, \u2018Is that what people think I look like? Hopefully not!\u2019 But the main one was definitely a better version of me,\u201d he continues. \u201cIt was great because my costume before [the decapitation] had all of these spindly bits. I was wearing four wedding dresses basically on the side of a mountain, often <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ping up over it. And now, I was just wearing a green bodysuit, but, of course, I was locked in with a thing around my neck so I wouldn\u2019t move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhile some actors in his position may have been daunted, O\u2019Connor found the experience of acting with just his head to be \u201cstrangely liberating.\u201d The crew found creative ways to maintain the illusion of a literal talking head \u2014 holes were cut into tables at perfect angles, his co-stars had to pretend to lift his head while he stood up slowly \u2014 which was then improved in post-production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cMy hands didn\u2019t have to be onscreen at all, so I could do whatever I wanted because they would take it out. It took away a lot of the avenues for mistakes you could make or for going over the top,\u201d O\u2019Connor says, adding that he\u2019d \u201cactually love to do another role\u201d like that. \u201cIf <em>Return to Oz 2<\/em> ever happens or something where they need a king that changes his heads, maybe I could get that to be my niche,\u201d he jokes.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Bittersweet_Reunion\"><\/span>\n\t\tA Bittersweet Reunion\t<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tEpisode six began with Dream contacting Lady Johanna Constantine (Jenna Coleman) in the late 18th century with an urgent request: He needed her to go to Paris and retrieve Orpheus\u2019 head, which Maximilien Robespierre had confiscated during his Reign of Terror and was planning to destroy for being \u201can object of superstition and decadence.\u201d Upon being found out, Johanna was thrown in prison and even faced the threat of being executed by guillotine, but she had cleverly chosen to hide Orpheus in a pile of heads belonging to Robespierre\u2019s other victims. At Dream\u2019s suggestion, Johanna asked Orpheus to sing in front of Robespierre and his men, who were then left frozen in their tracks, allowing Johanna to flee with Orpheus\u2019 noggin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAs they began the journey back to Orpheus\u2019 temple, Johanna and Orpheus took a special liking to each other as friends. In fact, Johanna\u2019s sole request for successfully completing her mission was to spend more time with Orpheus \u2014 a wish that Dream clearly granted, since she was buried near the temple after her death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSpeaking about what Johanna saw in Orpheus, O\u2019Connor points out that his character seemed to have \u201cfound a peace, a maturity and an acceptance to living and existing possibly forever with no means to do anything for himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI think Johanna comments that there\u2019s something inspiring about what he\u2019s been able to do,\u201d O\u2019Connor says. \u201cI watched that [documentary] recently with Christopher Reeve, and of course he had his horse accident and you can see it\u2019s awful, but there\u2019s a liberation as well in knowing he could overcome that for so long. Orpheus has been doing something akin to that for thousands of years, and he can appreciate Johanna because she\u2019s the opposite. She\u2019s alive and vivacious, and moving and tricking people. I think they appreciate the opposite in each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHeinberg adds, \u201cOrpheus, at that point, is so philosophical about his fate and trying to spend his days as best he can. Even though he longs for the peace of death, he\u2019s not an unhappy man. He\u2019s not suffering, and Dream is suffering and has been suffering since he left him on the beach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn the present day, Dream has no choice but to visit Orpheus, because he is the only living person who can locate Dream\u2019s brother, Destruction (Barry Sloane), who abandoned his realm some 300 years ago. While Orpheus would have good reason to be angry or resentful with his father, he chooses instead to be \u201cloving, accepting and forgiving,\u201d Heinberg says. \u201cIt\u2019s such a relief for Dream in that moment because he\u2019s been dreading having to face the biggest mistake he\u2019d ever made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn exchange for Orpheus\u2019 help in locating Destruction, Dream agrees to grant Orpheus the one boon he has always wanted. So, after Dream and Delirium (Esm\u00e9 Creed-Miles) track down Destruction to confirm that he will <em>not<\/em> helm his realm again, Dream returns to the temple and \u2014 out of love \u2014 ends his son\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI think him saying, \u2018I\u2019m ready now, father,\u2019 was the important thing \u2014 for him to have agency,\u201d O\u2019Connor says of shooting Orpheus\u2019 final moments. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t begging him to kill him. He knows that he will do it for him, but he gets to finally make a decision and be the adult, and asks his father to do it. His father was robbed of being a father because of who he was, and in this moment, it\u2019s clear that he\u2019s doing something that only a father would do for his son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDream solemnly bids farewell to Delirium and returns to his palace, where he instructs his librarian and property manager Lucienne (Vivienne Acheampong) to relieve the priests of their duties after they bury Orpheus\u2019 head in an unmarked grave. He then returns to his own room and finally breaks down while washing Orpheus\u2019 blood off his hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHeinberg reveals that Dream\u2019s decision to hide behind a bookcase while delivering the orders to Lucienne was not scripted: \u201cIt was our DP Will Baldy\u2019s idea in the moment, like, \u2018What if it\u2019s too much for him and he can\u2019t face her? And his not showing himself to her shatters her.\u2019 It was such a lovely collaborative idea, and it sets up that scene in his private quarters where he\u2019s washing the blood off his hands in such a beautiful way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn volume two, Dream will inevitably have to answer to the Fates \u2014 a.k.a. the Furies \u2014 for spilling family blood. But, true to form, he will not take his fate lying down. \u201cDream is going to do everything he possibly can to keep his life and his kingdom, and the people who work with him, whole and safe and alive,\u201d Heinberg teases. (He is specifically hinting at a line in the season premiere where Dream says he has made arrangements for the Dreaming to survive, even if he does not.) \u201cHe\u2019s going to fight for the next five episodes, because that\u2019s who he is. So it\u2019s not over, and there are lots of surprises along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t***<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Sandman<em> is now streaming on Netflix. The next five episodes, which will conclude Dream\u2019s story, will drop on July 24, with a bonus episode centered around Death dropping on July 31.<\/em> <em>Read THR\u2019s full interview with Heinberg about Part 1.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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