How Long Did Pennywise Makeup Take

Bill Skarsgård is very chill for someone with a famous family. Skarsgård, 27, put in his time in a Hollywood that knew him as Nib, brother of Alexander and son of Stellan, or as a thirsty teen in Netflix's Hemlock Grove. This fall Skarsgård made a breakout role out of Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the new adaptation of Stephen King'sInformation technology. (Which as well happens to be the highest-grossing horror film of all time.) From under pounds of clown makeup, his sinister-sexy Skarsgårdian os construction became something sinister-sinister. He scared kids, and he scared united states. GQ spoke to Skarsgård for our Men of the Twelvemonth issue. One could say we clowned around. (I'thou sorry.)

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The Hollywood Breakouts 2017

GQ: What'south the question you've gotten about often aboutIt?

Bill Skarsgård: "How long did the makeup take?"

Well?

Two and a half hours.

How did you exercise the expressions and voice?

For one of the callbacks, they asked me to come in clown makeup, then I had to sort of amateurishly put on bones clown confront and so drive through Hollywood. [Information technology managing director] Andy [Muschietti] was giving notes to the actors, and ii days before, he said, "Is there a express joy that you could come up up with?" I said, "I dunno." But as soon as I got in the car, I just started laughing maniacally.

So you drove through Los Angeles, laughing maniacally, in clown makeup?

I bought my clown makeup at one of those Halloween stores, put information technology on, and then went to the studio, which is right by Hollywood Boulevard. It's street parking, and then I parked my car, and then I had to walk in clown face to the date. Because there's 2 ways to go well-nigh information technology: Either you cower in the awkwardness and humiliation of it all, or you really commit to staying in whatever the character is and using this absurdum in your favor. Information technology's such an about metaphorical thing for what information technology is to be an role player in 50.A., forcing y'all to drive in clown face down Hollywood Boulevard for an audience you might not become. Simply I ended up booking the chore.

Y'all can't really half-ass anything when y'all're in clown confront.

In that location's naught half-assed well-nigh Pennywise, either.

He's really not a sympathetic grapheme at all—there'southward no point where he's humanized. Was it difficult for you to play a role where he'south a true villain with no redemption?

Just the whole character is so abstract. He's not homo, so it's sometimes easier, because he's and so inhuman in how he functions. It might have fifty-fifty been harder on me if I'd played a true human psychopath. I had to make sense of who Pennywise, or "It," really is. But it'southward not being human—it's something else.

What is it well-nigh your face, do you lot think, that made you lot suited for an inhuman role like this?

Andy, the manager, said I brought something that was sort of child-like and innocent with my face. But it could also turn out to be something very agonizing and evil.

How do you do that?

Part of being an actor is having the confront for the function, right? At that place's always some extent of luck going into getting a job. I try non to think too much about my own looks or how I work. In that location's a danger in becoming also self-aware.

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Information technology is that rare horror picture that takes place in the summer. What exercise you lot retrieve is the creepiest season for horror?

I think December has always been the nearly haunted month, from the gothic-narrative point of view—a lot of Edgar Allan Poe stories are set up in December. It'southward the last month of the year, and it's supposed to be sort of this mystical, spiritual calendar month. And being Swedish, December is also the darkest month out of the year. In Stockholm in December, the night just swallows the day whole, and y'all're but left in darkness for a calendar month direct. Obviously, it stimulates the imagination for what's hiding in the dark.

Does Sweden however feel like dwelling house for you?

A hundred percentage. I always feel like a foreigner in America.

What, in item, makes yous experience like that?

Take, for instance, the sensibility in lighting a firm or an apartment. I detect Americans so horribly bad at lighting. We're so deprived of light in the winter that Swedish people are experts at it—in Swedish houses everything is just very, very thought out, with a sort of warm, comforting light. Americans don't have that sensibility any. It'southward trivial things like that.

You don't really have a social-media presence. Practise you lot think you would be as individual a person if you didn't come from this huge Swedish interim family?

I tend to be more individual about it simply because all my life growing up at that place were kids in school who had all kinds of opinions about non only who I was but my family unit: "Do you lot guys hang out?" "Exercise you compete against each other?" And I understand that the interest is in that location; I just don't call up that information technology becomes a good interview. Information technology's about like we're living in a time when privacy doesn't exist at all, when everything should be shared and posted and liked. I just call back that I'm inclined to be a very individual person.

Why would you decide to become into acting if y'all didn't want to participate in that kind of self-promotion and publicity?

There's a lot of very individual actors. I crave attention in social settings—I'm very loud and outspoken, and I'g non necessarily a individual person. I tin be very honest with people I simply met. But how do you present yourself to a actually wide audition? Who are you in this social network? And I don't know if I've figured out how I want to present myself, so I'd rather just not present myself in whatsoever mode at all.

Y'all've said yous don't really have a abode base. What are the cons to the itinerant life?

It's gotten old. I need somewhere to hang my dress. I desire to become to a flea market and find a trivial weird box or something and just go, "Oh, this volition be great in my identify," and then purchase that. [That said,] I remember my lifestyle might look ludicrous to a lot of people, but I thrive off it. At to the lowest degree for at present. I think in that location'south a point where I'll become more routine-based.

Are you the kind of psychopath who has a different breakfast every solar day?

No! That would be way too deliberate.

A version of this story originally appeared in the December 2017 consequence under the championship 'The Breakouts 2017.'

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