![]() And sometimes good movies happen to be scary. Skarsgård himself isn’t a horror film fan, though he offers an addendum: He likes good movies. He has a few films in post production, too pretty soon, Pennywise will finally be left behind, for good. After that, it was back to Sweden for his sister’s wedding in August before jumping full force into fall and the “It” press tour. “We felt like we could at the same time show the world what Bill Skarsgård is capable of, which we think is being a Hollywood leading man and he’s starting to really show that now.”Īfter Skarsgård’s brief layover in New York in mid July - he was particularly excited about being upgraded to a balcony room at his hotel downtown - Skarsgård was headed to Utah to film “Nine Days” with first-time feature director Edson Oda, opposite Winston Duke and Zazie Beetz. “We were, like, ‘Is he capable of being this charismatic and lovely of a character?'” Turns out, yes. “We had only ever seen him in the context of horrors or thrillers, the scary clown in ‘It’ or something where he’s playing a werewolf or vampire,” says the writer-director duo, Robert Olsen and Dan Berk. Whereas “It” was a big studio undertaking with special effects, “Villains” was a more modest production by two young directors whose script had landed on the “blacklist” - a selection of the industry’s best unproduced screenplays. Skarsgård also appears as the lead in “Villains” out in September, a small budget dark comedy that premiered at SXSW in March. Well, expect to be seeing Skarsgård around even more, at least on the big screen. “Also in Stockholm, people just expect me to be there probably.” Especially in New York, there’s a sense of this enthusiasm that you don’t find in Sweden,” he says. “People tend to leave you alone in Sweden. ![]() He’s not phased, but Skarsgård, who lives in Sweden with his girlfriend and daughter, is more accustomed to a low-key existence. MORE: Click Here All the Photos of Bill Skarsgård from WWD’s Exclusive Shoot They all float down here, am I right, man?'” a reference to Skarsgård’s most famous line in the story. “I flew in from Stockholm last night and as I walked in through Customs - you know when you fill out the Customs form, and then you go through the Customs and then you pick up your luggage and then you walk through and have to hand in the little - he was like, ‘Neeeext. Others see Pennywise, whether he’s in makeup or not. “I’m so familiar with the look of the character, too, that its like, I don’t see it as the Pennywise monster, I see myself in a clown face.” There’s one person who’s definitely not freaked out by Pennywise, and that person is Skarsgård himself. “He would Skype with his brothers quite often while in the makeup and they would really get a kick out of it.” ![]() Bill is a tall guy, and put him in a creepy clown costume and face that’s nightmare fuel there,” he adds. “We were used to seeing him, but a lot of the crew members and other actors were genuinely freaked out when they saw him. Sometimes he’s outright scary as hell,” Zander says. Once we sat him down for two hours and applied all the makeup, he transforms. Zander, on-set prosthetic makeup effects key artist, was with Skarsgård from Day One of test makeup to the last of the shoots for the second film: more than 50 applications of Pennywise. Skarsgård credits his costume and makeup team - “the Pennywise unit” - for the hours of work that went into his physical transformation on-set, particularly the two artists applying his prosthetics each day: Sean Sansom and Shane Zander. Without the makeup I just look like a human being that’s not normal whatsoever.” It’s almost like the makeup translates onto the character. “It’s almost more jarring seeing me doing Pennywise looking like myself because it looks like a complete maniac. “I think the effects crew was, like, ‘Whoa, what the f–k.’ When you do the digital thing you only have dots on your face so you look like yourself,” says the 29-year-old actor, lanky and lounged on a couch wearing a floral button-up short-sleeve shirt and dark jeans. Whereas he spent a lot of time experimenting with various laughs, physicalities and faces before the first shoot, for the second installment Skarsgård was thrust back into the deranged clown’s world with little warning. A still from “It: Chapter Two.” Courtesy of Warner Bros.
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