Bill Skarsgard’s on His Slow Transformation Into Pennywise from ‘It’
Bill Skarsgard is quite the looker in real life, but when he has makeup on playing the demonic clown from hell, Pennywise in It, he is anything but.
“It’s such an extreme character. Inhumane,” Skarsgard said to Entertainment Weekly. “It’s beyond even a sociopath because he’s not even human. He’s not even a clown. I’m playing just one of the beings It creates.”
“I’ve been doing some clown research,” Skarsgard said. “I’m not sure if there was so much clown phobia before the novel. There’s obviously been this thing where people find clowns are unsettling, but nobody explored it the way Stephen King did… Tim Curry’s performance was truly great, but it’s important for me to do something different because of that. I’ll never be able to make a Tim Curry performance as good as Tim Curry.”
Read more at EW.