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Bill Skarsgård Pennywise Transformation | IT: Welcome to Derry | HBO Max
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00:01Some people find clowns scary.
00:03Some people find clowns charming.
00:05Bill is so good at making you think
00:09that things are okay, a child is at ease,
00:12and suddenly he strikes.
00:14The thing with the lips, the voice, the whole thing,
00:17it's just Bill.
00:19Touch with the clown!
00:21Pennywise is terrifying.
00:23Bill's got the baby face with the big eyes,
00:30plus he can also drool on command.
00:32I created the general look of Pennywise.
00:36It was an evolution.
00:38Rob McCallum was one of the concept artists.
00:41He did the smile that goes all the way through the eye
00:44and the eyelids and ends up in a spike.
00:46It was a team effort.
00:48There's a deformation in his look that I find very unsettling.
00:52You see the breezes and wrinkles and warts, horrible hair,
00:55not to mention the butrid teeth and the yellow eyes.
01:01Once Bill steps in, we put the skull piece on.
01:04We had big holes cut in the back to vent the heat and the sweat.
01:07Then we do the forehead.
01:09With the foreheads, we didn't totally seal the edges.
01:11We would know in advance if he was going to go from
01:13an angry brow to a normal brow.
01:15It would actually be on the call sheet.
01:17Bill is a saint because when he plays this character
01:21between putting it on and taking it off,
01:23it's a good three and a half, four hours of his stay.
01:28Andy did draw a sketch with that smile.
01:31The first test makeup we did, we had to freehand it.
01:33There was no stencil or anything.
01:34So once it was approved, then we had stencils made,
01:36and then we could reproduce it for every application,
01:38because that's just painted on the outside.
01:40Andy wanted it kind of broken up,
01:42so he didn't want it to look like it was perfect.
01:44So it's always kind of patchy.
01:46It's to give him more of that doll-like appearance,
01:48like the paint is cracked.
01:50He had mascara to make his eyes look as dark as possible
01:53around the yellow lenses.
01:57Show me some gum.
01:58There.
01:59Oh, that's the general.
02:00The kill teeth, which are all the jagged,
02:02almost like piranha teeth.
02:03It's a full upper and lower denture.
02:05And he can't really close his mouth with them,
02:07because all the teeth overlap one another.
02:11Chris Pennywise fire too, right?
02:13Chris Pennywise fire.
02:14Yeah, he looks amazing.
02:16And then we also have, we call them the bunny teeth.
02:18It's just the two front teeth.
02:19So they're just like caps that slide on.
02:22The hair of Pennywise in the series
02:23is a little more curly on the tips.
02:27Because it was a period show, I wanted it to be authentic,
02:30and I just decided to do a roller set on Pennywise.
02:34I thought, I'm not going to use the curling iron.
02:36I just didn't want it to be simple.
02:38It just came to life.
02:39It's a handmade human-haired wig,
02:41and each hair is knotted one at a time.
02:44It's a tough job.
02:45I don't envy her.
02:47For Bill, it just became routine.
02:49He would come in, sit down.
02:50It was his quiet time to get into character.
02:52And then he would go to set,
02:53and everybody was happy to see him as Pennywise.
02:55He's the main guy.
02:59Duck and cover kiddos.
03:06I know him for the last year.
03:07It's his turn.
03:08He's the main guy.
03:09I know him.
03:10I know him are happy to see him.
03:11He lets you break.
03:12He's the main guy.
03:13He's the main guy.
03:14I'm not going toühl.
03:15I know him.
03:16He's the main guy.
03:17He's a Litman.
03:18He's the main guy.
03:19I know him.
03:20He's the main guy.
03:21He's the main guy.
03:22He who's his main guy.
03:23He was a Job.
03:24He was a Hubert.
03:25He got the main guy.
03:26He's the main guy.
03:27He was a non-好man.
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