The actor who played Pennywise the clown in the Stephen King's It movies has signed on to star as another madman--but this time a real one. Netflix has announced that Bill Skarsgard will play the ...

However, Skarsgård's big break arrived in 2017 when he was cast as the iconic (but terrifying) villain Pennywise the Dancing Clown in Andy Muschietti's adaptation of Stephen King’s novel It.

It could be almost a sort of [serialized] surrealistic sort of psychedelic trip if you go into the mind of Pennywise. And if you’ve read the novel you know that they do actually go into his mind.

Bill Skarsgard is already making big preparations for the IT sequel.. The actor takes on the terrifying role of Pennywise the dancing clown for the upcoming movie, which takes place 17 years after ...

The most menacing homicidal harlequin character Pennywise the Dancing Clown is the Swedish actor Bill Skarsgard. Bill has managed to get into the skin of his sinister character with the utmost ease.

In fact, 14-year-old actor Finn Wolfhard just made an appearance on Good Morning America and admitted that he thinks Pennywise is even scarier than Stranger Things' fan-favorite Demogorgon monster ...

But there were many other actors who came close to playing Pennywise. If you're a diehard fan of Stephen King's "IT," perhaps you've wondered what an alternate take on this character would look like.