![]() We knew that the clown had been terrorizing the town for decades, yet we weren't given any reasons for why Pennywise does what he does, nor shown many layers to the villain. While Curry's performance as Pennywise was memorable and praiseworthy, it was sometimes difficult to grasp what the clown's true motivations were in the IT miniseries. Skarsgard's comments offer more positive news when it comes to this adaptation. ![]() And then once I get the make-up on, now I need to embody this thing and this is the third and final stage of the process." What was the psychology behind him? How does he function, how does he work? Why does he work? Why is he even around? Does he even exist, apart from in the imagination of kids? This whole thing - almost existential things that is very true in the book if you read it. "I need to go through this 1200 page book" But I also had that whole stage before I tried the make-up on - it was just me intellectualizing the character. "After I booked the job - we had like 10 days or something before we started shooting. There's a lot of clues to sort of the mind behind him.for me going into it." And you can go and look at it in the novel. There is a chapter that we would go back to, that's where Stephen King kind of writes, sort of subjectively through "It". We were never in disagreement about the psychology behind him. But we have a very - such a huge important thing for me doing the film was not only having Andy but having Andy's trust in me - and our collaboration in doing the character. You can watch the film, and you can have your own interpretation of what he is. I have a slight resistance in telling it. "I've gotten that question a lot during interviews.
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