![]() ![]() You’re young, handsome and seem a pretty cheerful person. We spoke with him about the prospect of ruining future childhoods, thankfully while he was out of character. You won’t recognise him in It, but you won’t be able to forget him. The son of Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård ( Thor, Pirates Of The Caribbean) and brother of Alexander Skarsgård ( True Blood, The Legend Of Tarzan), his ascent to stardom is all but a foregone conclusion. We’ll have to wait a couple of decades or so to see if Skarsgård’s Pennywise has the lasting impact of Curry’s, but it certainly announces him as one of the more interesting new actors in Hollywood. The 2017 It is unquestionably better than the 1990 version, with plotting that slashes some of King’s madder detours and a Stranger Things-esque gang of smart, sweary kids. Pennywise appears in many different forms, but most of the time he takes the shape of a yellow-eyed clown with a blood-red smile snaking up his chalky face. The adults barely seem to notice but a group of pre-teens, one of whom is searching for his missing brother, believe the kids are being stolen by Pennywise and dragged down to his lair in the sewers. An adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 horror novel, ‘It’ centres on an all-American town where children keep going missing. While most young actors hope to get their breakout role as someone cool and fanciable, Skarsgård is getting his as the supernatural, murderous clown Pennywise in It. Soon, though, he will cause you to look behind the bedroom door before you go to sleep he’ll make you nervy about getting up for a wee in the middle of the night one day, he’ll probably be giving your children very bad dreams. Sleepy-eyed and with the gliding facial plains that seem to be the birthright of anyone born in Sweden, the 27-year-old is by most definitions aesthetically pleasing. ‘Nightmarish’ isn’t one of the first words that comes to mind looking at Bill Skarsgård. ![]()
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