![]() Nary an evening went by where I wasn’t haunted by the demon from the sewers, when I wasn’t frightened into a panic that Pennywise would come out of the drain and get me when I least expected it. I had nightmares for at least seven months after I saw that (first half), and ended up sleeping in my parent’s bed every night during that time, something I’m sure never bothered either of them in the slightest. If you were somehow unaware, IT– despite being about childhood and the painful necessities of growing up and moving on– is not a film or story meant for consumption by actual kids, and the fall out from my decision to act brave, by enduring the displays of monstrosity, ricocheted far beyond that one summer afternoon. I saw the movie (or, more accurately, saw the first part, which is eminently scarier than the second half) at the tender age of 8, when a neighbor brought it to my cousin’s house to watch. Nothing has ever been more terrifying or fear inducing than Pennywise, aka It, the shape-shifting entity that preys on children by reading their minds, embodying what frightens each person most, then brutally murdering and eating them. But I’m not alone in saying the television movie from nearly three decades ago was the defining scary story– on screen, page, or otherwise– of my childhood, and even with the success of the newer films, both creatively and commercially, the original miniseries still matters in the canon of horror. The ABC miniseries, which starred Tim Curry as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, seems to have drawn some unnecessary scorn over the past few years for failing where the new film adaption(s) have succeeded. The likelihood for catastrophe is enormous, and with the imminent release of It Chapter Two this weekend (on the heels of the massively successful first part two years ago), it felt necessary to revisit the original adaption from 1990. on September 6, 2019.It’s a rather arduous process bringing an iconic literary story or character from the page to the screen, particularly when the source material is as dense, twisted, and LONG as Stephen King’s 1986 horror classic, IT. The sequel will pick up 27 years later after the first film and is scheduled to be released in the U.S. "It", based on Stephen King's novel of the same title, is out on Blu-ray on Tuesday, January 9. The younger brother of Alexander Skarsgard goes on revealing, "After we wrapped, I was in my childhood home in Sweden, sitting having coffee with my mom at our kitchen table, and realized, 'Oh, holy s**t, I don't have to deal with this relationship anymore!' It was a very quick shift of just feeling better, like, 'Oh my God, I'm relieved that I don't have to deal with the darkness of the character.' I likened it to an exorcism - him exiting my body and getting rid of the Pennywise toxins." All your friends go, 'You need to dump this piece of s**t, he or she is destroying your life.' And then once you're out of it, you see, 'I was so miserable.' But I wouldn't say I was miserable doing Pennywise because I had a lot of fun with it as well." "People don't really realize it until they're out of it. "It's just like being in a very destructive relationship," Skarsgard adds. ![]() "Pennywise and Bill go into this sort of relationship together, and I'm trying to figure out who he is and I have to devote so much time and effort to this other person - or thing, in this case - and that goes on for months." "I liken every character that I do to a relationship that you're in," he says. The Swedish actor also admits he was so immersed in the role that it was hard to separate the character's depiction from his real attitude. It's a daunting but exciting thing to sort of revisit him again." Like, I'm Pennywise and I'm really upset that I'm out in public and people are looking at me."Įxplaining the meaning of his dreams, Skarsgard says, "This was a process of letting go of the monster. He further shares, "It was in the shape of either me dealing with him, sort of Pennywise as a separate entity of me, and then also me as Pennywise in circumstances that I didn't appreciate. Every night, he came and visited," he says in a new interview with EW. "I was home, done with the movie, and I started having very strange and vivid Pennywise dreams. ![]() The 27-year-old actor reveals the shapeshifting killer clown visited him in his dreams even after they wrapped up the filming of the movie. AceShowbiz - Bill Skarsgard might scare everyone on the set of " It" with his clown makeup, but the actor himself was haunted by his own character Pennywise.
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