Years of a clown

THE BEGINNING

tephen King’s had already been turned into an iconic 1990 mini-series, with Tim Curry as Pennywise. So Skarsgård at first resisted the chance to make the role his own. “I had so many personal anxieties and fears about how it would be received,” he admits. “Tim Curry’s clown shoes are big shoes to fill.” Then he thought about it, and started to imagine the possibilities. “If we had gone with the