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The minds behind “IT: Welcome to Derry” didn’t show viewers Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd’s Pennywise until Episode 5<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and they didn’t allow his scene partners to get too familiar with him before that, either.\u00a0<\/p>\n In order to capture some authentic shock from the actors, the showrunners made sure\u00a0Matilda Lawler, Amanda Christine, and Clara Stack \u2014 who play Marge, Ronnie, and Lilly, respectively, in HBO’s horror series \u2014 didn’t lay eyes on Skarsg\u00e5rd in his demonic circus garb until it came time to shoot Pennywise’s grand entrance.<\/p>\n “They kept him top secret … from us until we got to that specific sewer scene,” Christine told Collider<\/a>.\u00a0“He takes the character so seriously and really takes on the role of being Pennywise. … It was just really cool to experience that and really scary, too. That reaction you see is our real reaction.”<\/p>\n Stack echoed this sentiment:\u00a0“He is a nice guy off set, but when he’s Pennywise, you feel that terror and it is indescribable.”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd wasn’t always scary as Pennywise … sometimes, he was just weird<\/p>\n
Brooke Palmer\/HBO<\/p>\n You might expect the sight of Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd roaming around as Pennywise<\/a> to inspire fear in his younger castmates. But now and again, it was also a source of humor.<\/p>\n “There were some really exciting, random Pennywise sightings on set,” said\u00a0Matilda Lawler in an interview with MovieZine<\/a>. “Like sometimes, you’d just be walking to … get a snack, and you’d just see him walking in fully sweatpants and a normal shirt with his full Pennywise head, and you’d just be like, ‘Oh, hi, Bill… ‘ and he’d be like ‘Hi!’ That’s not something you see every day.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
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