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Bill Skarsgård opens up about his journey from playing the terrifying clown in 'IT' to other creature roles. He explains how this experience has colored his entire approach to acting, focusing on the freedom of creating a character's unique voice and sound.
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00:00i was 26 when i when we did the first it movie so uh it's fair to say that you
00:06know i was pretty
00:07young and that was pretty early in my career so so i just you know then the progression of that
00:13i've just you know the pennywise or or an orlock or whatever i've done like these like big prosthetic
00:20creatures and monsters and and i really enjoy it you know i what i enjoy the most is like
00:27absolutely not the um application of the prosthetics it's tedious but i enjoy um
00:36the the sort of freedom of creating something of sounding of list like playing like finding a voice
00:44and recording yourself listening back and using nuance like whatever like the whole kind of abstract
00:50creative process of playing creatures is really fun and and then you know i i think it's colored how i
00:56play other characters now i mean maybe to a fault but like i just like with this one tony is
01:01a real
01:01was a real guy so there was a lot of footage and a lot of recordings of his voice and
01:07and and accent
01:08and how he sounded and and and and cadence and rhythm of how he spoke you know so so i
01:14just i bring that
01:15sort of i bring that into every character like i just you know like the character should sound like
01:21he's from that place that he's from and and and and and and um um um it's an aspect of
01:27performing i think
01:28he's from
01:29he's from
01:29he's from
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