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Actor Bill Skarsgård delves into the complex, abstract, and transdimensional nature of his iconic character, Pennywise. He discusses Stephen King's original lore and how the prequel series 'Welcome To Derry' offers a unique chance to explore the entity's backstory.
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00:00What I speak about, you know, it's like, what's the Pennywise thing and the it thing of it all?
00:05And I mean, it's so, so abstract, this transdimensional evil being thing with a spider and a turtle or whatever.
00:14I mean, it's it is really out there.
00:17And I mean, reading the book, as you know, I mean, you can interpret it in a thousand different ways.
00:23And I'm I'm pretty sure that Stephen King doesn't really know.
00:26I mean, there's rumors that he doesn't remember writing much of it because he was, you know, in a stimulated
00:34mind during it.
00:37But we're going back in time. But what's time to something that is not part of this dimension?
00:42I thought that was an interesting thing that the character is kind of going in two directions.
00:46I'm not sure where we're going with it, but, you know, there's something fun to explore that that that, you
00:55know, Pennywise might be going backwards, but it's forward for him, just as it is for the audience who have
01:02to go and wait, you know, two years for each season or whatever.
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