Bill Skarsgard is the face behind creepy clown Pennywise. Photo: AFP
Maybe it’s the recent announcement of a new Joker origin story, or perhaps just 2017’s general spectre of clownish grotesquerie, but something feels perfectly timely about Pennywise.
The villain from Stephen King’s IT terrified when he was left to childhood imaginations in the author’s 1986 doorstopper. And he is likely to send similar shudders after appearing, in the form of young Swedish actor Bill Skarsgard, in the new Warner Bros release.
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