He preferred to take the shape of the clown. There’s a line in the original book where it goes something like “the clown was its favorite form.” It really enjoyed being the clown. I didn’t want the clown to be completely separate from the entity, right? I wanted “it” to really shine through Pennywise as opposed to just Pennywise being the clown. So a lot of what the entity is I wanted to be in the background of who Pennywise is at all times. The second step is to create the clown itself. I had to first figure out what the entity was and what the thing was that is taking the shape of the clown. Obviously, it’s an extremely abstract character because the character is an entity taking the shape of a clown. Essentially, what you’ll end up seeing in the film is my own deepest fears embodied in this character. Your own kind of fears and what you find disturbing and amplify that in terms of the performance. So an important thing for me in terms of preparing and creating the character was thinking “What are the things that I would find really unsettling?” And then explore that. I mean, I only have my own senses to go on so I wanted to make something that I would be scared of. What was that like for your performance, to play everything that somebody can be afraid of? I imagine that would be freeing for you. Pennywise is an interesting character because he’s a bit fluid, a projection of elements and fears from the children he torments.
That’s something I needed to explore to what this thing would sound like. My first test with the prosthetics and makeup was where I saw what the character would actually look like with me in it.
Then we started exploring different things and I saw different prototypes of what he might look like and I started working with that. I didn’t know what the makeup would look like, I had no idea what the prosthetics would look like.
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It was really when we did the full make-up test and see what the character would actually look like…it’s a very abstract way of preparing for something when you have no idea what he will look like. I explored different versions of it, what would resonate the most with the audience.
The voice had changed a lot from the first time I had auditioned. In the most recent trailer, we finally got to hear Skarsgard's Pennywise talk and where Curry was brash and bullish, Skarsgard is a quieter kind of sinister, snake-like with aspartame artificial sweetness. It's a complete reinvention of the character from top to tail from script to creature design to performance, and it's genuinely unnerving.īILL SKARSGARD: I play around with a lot of different versions of what this thing might sound like. Folks who grew up on Curry's incarnation of the character may be in for a bit of a surprise with IT, which looks back to the source material for a much different interpretation. Now, King's novel is getting the remake treatment once again with Andy Muschietti's IT and this time Bill Skarsgard has stepped up to take on the role of It, aka Pennywise the Dancing Clown. There's no shortage of iconic horror characters out there, but few have struck fear into as many hearts as Pennywise, the child-eating, shape-shifting clown created by Stephen King as the force of evil corrupting the small town of Derry, Maine is his horror epic IT. When the book was adapted to miniseries in 1990, Tim Curry transformed the character into a living, breathing force of evil on Bozo's clothes, scaring the wits out of audiences everywhere with a sinister smile and gravelly voice and cementing a generation of kids as clown-phobic.
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