![]() ("But of course, we all thought about it.")Īnd then, enter Bill Skarsgård. When jokingly asked if Tilda Swinton auditioned, she said no.but only because she wasn't available. Barbara Muschietti noted that they auditioned literally hundreds of people for the role and "really went through the spectrum of actors." No one was off limits: men, women, young, old, known, and unknown. And also his career was starting to take off and I think he got a little scared. He wasn't very interested in doing it at that time. He was part of a previous approach, and I had a meeting with him. When we started, we started seeing people right away and the moment Bill popped up, I think we knew it was for us.Īs seems to the to be the general gist of their dynamic, Andy Muschietti was far more blunt about this matter than his producer/sibling:Īnd I remember I was sort of interested in Will Poulter. He was on the table but there were, to be completely honest, there were scheduling conflicts because he was on The Maze Runner. But the official shape is more like a weird baby. I'm playing a little bit with his mood, and his mood sometimes in terms of the hair. ![]() And then the Pennywise you saw today is special because his hair is crazy, but the rest of the movie is different. And then, to be honest, it didn't evolve much from that point. With something very off, because his eyes were wide-eyed, like slightly apart. With this "upgrade" in mind, Andy Muschietti started drawing and his early versions were close to what we see on screen: And given that this guy has been around for centuries, I wondered to myself why, why not, have an upgrade that was 1800s. I think it looks cheap, and it's too related to social events, the circus and stuff, but I'm more aesthetically attracted to the old time, like the 19th century clown. Well, the fact that this entity has been around for thousands of years. We had nothing to do with that and I hope that ends soon because it's freaking me out.ĭirector Andy Muschietti (for the record, Barbara's brother) was a bit more blunt about this shift in Pennywise's appearance: In the U.S., they're terrifying and they're being made even more terrifying by a couple of loonies who are wandering the forest. We were talking with other journalists the other day from the international press and they were saying clowns weren't seen as scary in other parts of the world, they're more pathetic. ![]() Barbara Muschietti described him as "the ancestral clown.not of any particular era." Pennywise is "beyond, from above, the past and future." Plus, she wryly noted that Americans seem to be alone in finding more traditional circus clowns terrifying: Unlike the Pennywise from the novel and the 1990 miniseries, who was depicted as Bozo-type, the kind of clown commonly associated with television and birthday parties, this version feels a bit.older. So, that's kinda how I rationalized to see who or what Pennywise is in terms of the form that he is, where he comes from, and who he is. ![]() I think in our version, Pennywise is something that's maybe been around and maybe drew the inspiration from a real person, in Bob Gray or whoever he was, and created this version of a clown that fit the 19th century, judging by the clothes and appearances and then he really enjoyed that version and is stuck with it. So you could assume that 5,000 years ago it would've been something that terrified people at that time, maybe a spirit or something like that. Actor Bill Skarsgård drew from the mythology of King's novel and realized that this ancient being presumably found a skin that's worked for the past few centuries and decided to stick with it: ![]()
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