By Bill Skarsgård says that HBO’s upcoming “IT: Welcome to Derry” TV series will be ‘pretty hardcore’.
Out promoting his role as Count Orlok in Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu,” the Swedish actor spoke with Happy Sad Confused podcast and touched upon his return as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
Skarsgård played the role in the two “IT” movies in 2017 and 2019, and reprises it for the forthcoming prequel series set decades earlier. He tells the podcast the series is “pretty hardcore, man” and possibly scarier than the films.
He also discussed how he came onboard:
“Barbara and Andy, the Muschiettis, are doing it. I love them. They’re very close friends. Family, even. I’m the godfather of his son. So, I love them, and that was, ‘Alright, let’s bring him back.’ It was fun. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, actually.
There are parts of it where we got to explore sides of ‘ole Pennywise that we haven’t seen, and that’s fun. I remembered how much I enjoyed working with Andy, and we do have a lot of fun together. I think there’s some cool stuff in there that we haven’t seen that I’m excited for the people to watch and enjoy, hopefully.”
Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, James Remar, Stephen Rider, Madeleine Stowe, and Rudy Mancuso star in the series which unfolds in the early 1960s in the period when Pennywise goes into hibernation and re-emerges in the 1980s when the creature encounters the Losers Club.
The show will air sometime in 2025 on the network.
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