Bill Skarsgård, fresh off Nosferatu, was accepting that his Pennywise days were over before deciding to return to the titular role in the TV prequel series It: Welcome to Derry.
“I felt like I was done with it in a way. It was also because I was shooting this, I was doing Orlok, and to me it just felt like, ‘OK, this is the nail in the coffin on my monster roles.’ Pun intended,” he said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “So I did feel like I was kind of over it and wanted to do different things.”
Skarsgård continued, “And of course, the Pennywise thing as well, I’ve been quite defined by it.”
The actor explained that “things changed” when he saw producers Andy and Barbara Muschietti‘s take on the prequel. “And I love them, they’re very close friends, family even. I’m the godfather of his son. So I love them,” said Skarsgård. “So I was like, ‘All right, let’s bring him back.'”
Source: Deadline