12/12/2023 0 Comments Pennywise actor photo![]() This story is part of our Fall 2017 Movie Preview. Fears, yes, but of what kind? That he exists merely as a reflection of others can make the character feel nebulous. What Pennywise represents might be murky to some moviegoers. I want the audience to say, ‘What’s so funny about that?’” “But I also think it’s important that Pennywise is always off-putting and weird and evil. Skarsgard’s face is now almost entirely white, as though a flour bomb has gone off behind him. Pennywise enjoys scaring kids and eating them - when people are most scared, that’s when he’s happiest.” “I did want it feel like he’s having fun. Emotional range comes easily for Skarsgard, who hails from a long acting lineage (dad Stellan, older brother Alexander), and he lets it fly in the part. That can be felt particularly with his emotions, which often veer into boyish glee. I didn’t want to be small in those aspects.” the show is set to explore Pennywise the Dancing Clowns life in the early 1960s. Said director Andres Muschietti of the character: “Pennywise as a shapeshifting monster requires a certain treatment, a certain vision. Pennywise actor Bill Skarsgard says he isnt involved in It prequel. Still, understatement wouldn’t be the word to use here. Skarsgard - who will incarnate another character in the burgeoning King universe with Hulu’s “Castle Rock” - says he was on guard against that with this role. Too much makeup or too many twitches and it becomes out-of-date, cartoonish. Playing the villain in this post-Nolan moment requires a certain brand of subtlety. See the most-read stories in Entertainment this hour » But Pennywise is not” - he laughs - “a real person.” “Heath Ledger’s Joker is rooted in the real you can break down the psychology. “There is something inexplicable about Pennywise, and it should be that way,” Skarsgard said from the makeup chair. “It’s a little like a destructive relationship, the force of the character. He now looked fully like the man he was describing. “There’s a quote in the book that goes something like, ‘although a great mocker of emotions, he never felt one of his own,” Skarsgard said. Pennywise might be a fear of mortality, or a representation of childhood anxieties, or - yes - a concern about certain political figures. On the other hand, such lack of definition also gives him a certain elasticity. Lots of interesting faces here and there, including Ritter (an unappreciated dramatic talent) and Otoole looking radiant.Heath Ledger’s Joker is rooted in the real you can break down the psychology. For insiders, most of the fun is in the first few scenes where one of the "characters" himself a writer explains that he has a job adapting his own work: "If anyone is going to mess it up, it may as well be me." The inside joke is that King himself was brought in as co-writer here because so many of the earlier TV adaptations were a disaster. IT was one of King's more interesting works and this is one of the less awful adaptations. The bad news is that, with rare exception (eg - SHINING) the B-grade studios that made easy money doing "tv movies" (you had to be there, otherwise you would not understand) generally snapped up his stuff and then did cheap, low-talent adaptations. My view is that his "early" works (including IT, THE STAND, SHINING) were his best. ![]() If you are of the King generation (lotsa books, bookstores, drugstores with books, tobacco stores with books, no computers or personal devices) then you probably have your own views on his place in the creative continuum. ![]()
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