Bill Skarsgard uses the voice of his terrifying IT character Pennywise when his kids are 'misbehaving'
Bill Skarsgard has confessed he uses the voice of his terrifying IT character Pennywise when his kids are "misbehaving".
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Bill Skarsgard uses the voice of his terrifying IT character Pennywise when his kids are "misbehaving".
The 36-year-old actor has played Stephen King's horror clown 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."
