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[Video] Bill Skarsgård Explains His Creepy Pennywise Smile

Published

7 years ago

September 13, 2017

Yes, that smile was 100% practical.

Earlier this week we showed you a video of IT star Bill Skarsgård doing his whimsically sinister Pennywise smile for a Swedish radio program; as it turns out, Skarsgård is even creepier when he’s playing Pennywise without any makeup or digital enhancement.

Last night, Skarsgård appeared on “Conan,” where he explained the bizarre ability that host Conan O’Brien described as “the most evil, demonic smile in all of horror.”

As he told Conan, Skarsgård discovered his unique talent for smiling creepily as a child, and he put it to good use scaring his younger brother…

“My older brother Gustav… he had this ability to point his lip in a very strange way,” the actor explained, adding that he soon realized he had the same ability. “For some reason… I was maybe ten years old… I came up with this character, Yodigan. I would pull my t-shirt up over my head… and I would do this face, and chase my little brother.”

As a child, that smile scared one person. As an adult, it’s scaring millions.

Once again I say, Pennywise was the role Skarsgård was born to play.

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New ‘Sleepy Hollow’ Movie in the Works from Director Lindsey Anderson Beer

Published

16 hours ago

April 22, 2024

John Squires

Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?

The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.

THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”

You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.

The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.

More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.