Some actors find that the only literal way to rightfully bring a fibre to life on the big filmdom is to give part of themselves over to the fictitious identity — produce blank within themselves so that the other being might exist . Actor Bill Skarsgård learned the backbreaking way that sometimes , that process has consequences .

When you watch interview with Skarsgård in his everyday human pretense , it becomes immediately vindicated that the affair that made Pennywise so unsettling was that beneath all that makeup and prosthetics , the histrion was incarnate the character . Many of Pennywise ’s queerness are really his . That weird back talk thing and Pennywise ’s lazy centre , for example , are both things that Skarsgård can make his face just do on bidding , something that delighted It conductor Andy Muschetti .

But Skarsgård ’s commitment to doing original Pennywise Tim Curry proud was not without its drawback . In an consultation withEntertainment Weekly , the doer likened the physical process of getting into Pennywise ’s headspace to being in an opprobrious family relationship that study an excited bell on him and has left him with some grade of psychological psychic trauma . Namely , he ’s give nightmares about the murderous clown he helped make :

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“ I was home plate , done with the motion picture , and I started having very strange and vivid Pennywise dream . Every night , he follow and visit . It was in the figure of either me share with him , sort of Pennywise as a disjoined entity of me , and then also me as Pennywise in circumstances that I did n’t appreciate . Like , I ’m Pennywise and I ’m really upset that I ’m out in populace and masses are await at me . ”

To be fair , there are far more frightful dream that one could have about Pennywise other than ones in which he merely come to visit you to catch up on older time , but Skarsgård ’s experiences are unsettling all the same . kill Pennywise in the forcible realm was already difficult enough — ideate receive to make out with him in your dream .

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William Duplessie

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