Bill Skarsgård became the scary Pennywise the Dancing Clown after he nailed the audition, but not without weird side effects.

The little ditty comes at the start of the episode, in a moment that recalls another Stephen King classic, Carrie. The Carrie similarities happen when Pennywise traps the Derry High School students in ...

With the conversation shifting to It: Welcome to Derry beginning at the 24:22 mark, Skarsgard shared with Horowitz that he felt that he had pretty much said what he needed to say about the character.

Stephen King’s most infamous creation, Pennywise, never seems to go away—the dancing clown has been haunting dreams since 1986, when King’s horror novel It was released. It adaptations tend to avoid ...