Bill Skarsgard was praised for his performance as Pennywise the killer clown in the 2017 Stephen King movie It, and he`s returning to play a more sinister version of the clown in this year`s sequel. In a new interview, Skarsgard talks about how playing the clown affected him personally.He told Entertainment Weekly that he went home after wrapping up It: Chapter II, and at night, he was visited by Pennywise. `I was home, done with the movie, and I started having very strange and vivid Pennywise dreams. Every night, he came and visited,` he said.Looking forward to IT CHAPTER 2? You should be. I`ve seen it, and it`s terrific. The trailer is coming Thursday, at noon. You`ll float. - Stephen King (@StephenKing) May 7, 2019Just like in the films, Pennywise assumed different forms when he visited Skarsgard in his dreams. `It was in the shape of either me dealing with him, sort of Pennywise as a separate entity of me, and then also me as Pennywise in circumstances that I didn`t appreciate,` he said.Even though Skarsgard says he was visited by Pennywise in his dreams, the actor said it was like an exorcism to finish Chapter II. `Him exiting my body and getting rid of the Pennywise toxins,` Skarsgard said.Also in the interview, Skarsgard said Pennywise--having been `defeated` in the 2017 film--returns 27 years later in the sequel as more terrifying and bloodthirsty. `He`s inflicted fear on his prey, and he`s very focused on fear, but he`s never experienced it himself,` he said. `Now he`s experienced something that he has been inflicting on others and ... there`s a shift leading into the second movie.`The actor teased that Pennywise is not bound by continuity in the sense that a traditional character would be, and this allows him to go to some horrifying places. `We can explore his unpredictability now that we`ve established the character for the audience. We can still sort of shock them,` he said.The first trailer for It: Chapter Two will be released on Thursday morning, ...
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