Bill Skarsgård says that if his kids misbehave, Pennywise can “slip in, slip out… and then Nosferatu can pop in.” He called himself a “schizophrenic daddy.”
The eyes that point in two different directions in the movies aren’t CGI. He can actually do that on command.
The drool from the prosthetic teeth was so intense that director Andy Muschietti kept it on purpose.
And on the first It film, he stayed away from the child actors between takes so they’d stay genuinely scared of him.
Now he’s back as Pennywise (and as the original human clown Bob Gray) in the Welcome to Derry prequel series, which digs into the entity’s ancient origins.
From the sewers to the living room, the man contains multitudes.
