Pennywise – Bill Skarsgård
When Swedish actor Bill Skarsgård first viewed himself as Pennywise the clown, he was frightened. “It was an amazing, intimidating sensation of seeing the makeup going on for the first time,” he recalls. I looked at myself in the mirror, making faces to figure out what this character would ultimately become.”
In the horror film It, the child actors didn’t see Bill in costume until they completed a scene. This indicates that their genuine emotions were recorded on film.