Bill Skarsgard reveals hilarious way he uses Pennywise when children ‘misbehave’
Bill Skarsgard just opened up about a hilarious yet terrifying way of getting his kids to calm down when they’re “misbehaving.”
The 36-year-old actor has played Stephen King’s horror clown, Pennywise in two films, 2017’s IT and the 2019 sequel IT: Chapter Two as well as in TV series IT: Welcome To Derry and he’s confessed his two children with partner Alida Morberg sometimes hear the creepy voice of Pennywise as well as the vampire from his 2024 Nosferatu remake.
During an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Bill was asked if his children had heard his “Pennywise voice” and he replied, “Yeah, if they misbehave.”
The actor went on to add, “He can slip out there. Can slip in, can slip out and Nosferatu can pop in. There’s a whole colourful bunch of schizophrenic daddy.”
During the podcast, Bill also admitted he didn’t get a call from the producers of the next James Bond movie to audition for the role as the superspy, but he’s adamant he would much rather play a villain in the film like Mads Mikkelsen’s role as Le Chiffre opposite Daniel Craig in 2006’s Casino Royale.
Bill explained, “They didn’t call me about James Bond. I don’t know what that was about. Every single British, Australian [actor] … but maybe they were like: ‘We can’t do a Swede for this guy’. I wasn’t even thrown into the mix…”
“[I] just want to go in and do one Mads Mikkelsen villain,” and added of playing bag guys, “It’s not something that I’m actively looking for, but if I feel compelled to do something, yeah.”
He continued, “It’s the weird thing. A lot of people ask me, what goes into picking your roles or whatever and I don’t really know how to say it other than I feel drawn or compelled to.”
“But I’ve also noticed that I don’t want to become jaded. Which means that I think I could probably go long stretches without working and waiting for something to be compelling enough for me to work on,” the actor added.
“For a villain, it would have to be something that felt original to me, that was something that I hadn’t done before. I feel, kind of, spent with those things. But there are villains [that] could be really fun in different ways and if it’s the right kind,” Bill Skarsgard said of his popular roles as the villain.
