Even when Bill Skarsgard was done playing Pennywise, the shapeshifting killer clown was not finished with him.
Pennywise even began turning up in his dreams.
“It’s just like being in a very destructive relationship,” Skarsgard said.
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“People don’t really realize it until they’re out of it.
And then once you’re out of it, you see, ‘I was so miserable.’
Playing the part just … took a toll.
I likened it to an exorcism him exiting my body and getting rid of the Pennywise toxins.”
But after letting the clown into his head, Skarsgard found it hard to push him out.
Every night, he came and visited."
Appropriately, Pennywise took on different forms in these visions.
“This was a process of letting go of the monster,” he says.
“It was amazing.
It’s a daunting but exciting thing to sort of revisit him again.”
Skarsgard and the killer clown are separated, but they’re staying in touch in the dreamscape.
“I’m good with it,” the actor says.
