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He played horror villain Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the 2017 film It and reprised the role in the 2019 sequel, directed by Andy Muschietti. [9] Speaking about what led him to casting Skarsgård, Muschietti said: "One second he can act all cute, and then the next, there's something ancestral and dark that just appears.
It, also known as Pennywise, Robert 'Bob' Gray, and Pennywise the Dancing Clown, is the titular antagonist in Stephen King's 1986 horror novel It.The character is an ancient, trans-dimensional malevolent entity who preys upon the children (and sometimes adults) of Derry, Maine, roughly every 27 years, using a variety of powers that include the ability of shapeshifting and manipulation of reality.
To be sure, it's a strong performance, and the clown is a worthy successor to all the great scary clowns in movie history" [445] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote: "That evil clown Pennywise, a spectacularly scary Bill Skarsgård, is the stuff of nightmares."
Bill Skarsgård's twisted Pennywise performance had a lasting grip on his psyche.. The actor played the demented clown in the two recent adaptations of Stephen King's IT, released in 2017 and 2019 ...
In a March 2023 interview, Bill Skarsgård revealed he hasn't had any conversations with producers or casting about the series yet, but gave advice to the potential next star on how to play Pennywise.
It is the titular shapeshifting antagonist of the miniseries whose primary form is a wisecracking clown named Pennywise, played by Tim Curry. Curry used Robin Williams -esque natural improvisation when playing Pennywise, giving the character a Bronx accent in order to sound like, as Curry put it, "an old-time Catskills comic."
Playing a “psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy,” as Ledger described to The New York Times while shooting the film in 2007, undoubtedly impacted the actor, who ...
[58] Variety ' s Peter Debruge wrote, "The clown is back, and the kids have grown up in part two of Stephen King's monster novel, which inspires an overlong, but suitably scary sequel," [59] while Christy Lemire of RogerEbert.com gave the film two-and-a-half out of four stars, stating that "It Chapter Two can be a sprawling, unwieldy mess ...