Een paar dagen geleden heb ik eindelijk de IT remake gezien en dit is een verdomd goede film die helaas een beetje inkakt tegen het einde aan, maar wel degelijk een waardige film. Het tweede deel zal in 2019 verschenen en zijn de voorbereidingen goed in gang en sprak Bill Skarsgard over het werken met een nieuwe cast en en meer.

Yeah, it's weird. It's a bit strange 'cause it's a very different thing now. The first time I did it, nobody knew what I would do with it, so it was just all of this expectation. I didn't know if it would work, or if people would respond to it. There was a lot of that worry going on about it. But that was also cool 'cause I was just doing my thing and nobody knew what that was or could tell me how I should do it. I was like, "I'm gonna distance myself from the Tim Curry performance, and then come up with some weird stuff, myself." I worked really closely with Andy [Muschietti], the director. This time around, because the movie became such a phenomenon, it's almost like I'm re-adapting myself. The character became very iconic.

Pennywise became a star. You see Instagram posts of people dressing up or dressing their kids as Pennywise for Halloween. It's all over the place. LeBron James was Pennywise. How surreal is that? So, it became this completely universal thing, outside of the thing. That's not me. I can't even relate myself to it anymore. And now that I'm going back and doing it, it's such a bizarre thing. I don't think I'll ever really experience anything like it. It's this dualistic thing of me and the work and the character, and then the thing that it became, but it's fun. We had the read-through and I've done some rehearsals, and I was surprised how much of the character was just there already. I instantly could access him again, like it was yesterday that we wrapped the first one. It was just all there. So, the work and preparation and figuring out the character is almost intuitive, which is pretty cool. It's a very strange thing, but I'm trying to enjoy the ride, as much as I can."