00:00We were Toronto the whole time, yeah, which was cool because we got a chance to see, I don't know Toronto, and also they, a lot of the places they used were the places they used for the films, that they used for the OG joint, so it'd be like, like even like different towns, you know, and people were like, oh is this blah blah blah, it is pretty cool, I mean like the privilege of being in something that's already established, is everybody's all like, come on in, you're in it now, I'm like, oh my god, it's not, like other shows, when you're establishing a show, they're like, get out of here, I haven't heard of it,
00:27so it was really nice to go back to, with the same, mostly the same crew, the same company to be able to go, we were so well taken care of, and some of the same hotels, yeah, yeah, yeah, well the town changed very little, the storefronts and all that, I mean we went, we shot in the same place, Port Hope, outside of Toronto, and it looks the same as it did, like the cars are different,
00:55but much of it is the same, like there's this railroad trestle, that goes by, there's this wonderful sequence where the kids are going to the quarry, and the train is in the background, that's all still there, so when I stepped onto that set, even though it's supposed to be many years earlier, I felt like I'd been there before.
01:15For me it was really this meta moment, because one of my favorite moments in the movies, it would be chapter two, when Stephen King makes an appearance, and he makes an appearance in second hand Rose, so to get to play Rose, and to get to be in that exact space, and I believe I'm even sitting on the side of the counter where Stephen was sitting.
01:39I was going to ask, he's behind the counter, and his cameo.
01:42Yes, exactly, so it felt very intentional, and really profound, to get to be in that space, because again, like the space holds that energy, it remembers that story, so it was a real gift to get to circle back, and join in to this story that's already being told, and even take it deeper, and take it back further.
02:00When I was saying goodbye, I was having conversations with Bill Skarsgård about how cool it would be to tell the story of the origins of Pennywise, how it became a clown, when did that happen, because that's one of the big question marks that are presented in the book, and we were just fantasizing about making a movie,
02:24and that evolved later, you know, into the idea of making it a series that comprised a bigger, fuller story, that would make more justice to the entire story told in the book, but also an opportunity to ask, to answer a lot of questions that were just like very cryptic messages and an unfinished puzzle in the book, intentionally.
02:52And that's how it all started.
02:56Yeah, so I was lucky enough to get invited to help on IT Chapter 2, way back when they were about to start production on that, so I came in and was working on it, essentially through the whole shoot, and as we were making that film, myself and Andy and Barbara, there were some conversations about doing a third IT film, a prequel, that would revolve around sort of the origin story of Pennywise, and it was never a super serious conversation, it was more just a what if, wouldn't this be cool?
03:19And those conversations kind of subsided for a variety of reasons, it didn't feel like the right version of that story to tell, and I would say about a year or so later, I was working on something else with Andy and Barbara, and I was walking into the Warner Brothers parking lot, and Andy, almost as an afterthought, said to me, hey, would you want to do an IT prequel series?
03:36And I just thought that sounded like the most amazing idea ever, and it was the easiest yes of my career, and we built it from there.
03:44And I've been there.
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