Spoilers ahead for the latest episode, episode 5, of It: Welcome to Derry, HBO’s newest hit.
We finally got our first real glimpse at Pennywise the Clown (played by Bill Skarsgard) after several episodes of waiting!
The prequel series has been following a group of schoolkids in Derry, Maine as they are tortured by the evil character, all while a group of officials is simultaneously hunting the being.
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In a memorable scene, Matty Clements (Miles Ekhardt), who died earlier in the season, came back to work with the group of children and lead them to the sewers.
However, it turned out that Matty was not alive after all. He was simply Pennywise in disguise. Matty shapeshifted into Pennywise, scaring the kids and leading them to run wildly out of the sewer system while Lilly fell behind.
Lilly miraculously is saved only because a dagger, thought to be able to harm It, fell into the water where she was standing.
Now, the creators of the show are speaking out about the character’s big return.
Co-showrunner Jason Fuchs told EW, “We always knew this was not gonna be front and center in the first scene of the pilot in the way that It 1 opens with the introduction to Georgie and Pennywise. But a huge part of the creative process was, ‘When do we introduce this character in the context of this story?’ It really was a function, ultimately, of the story and the characters dictating it.”
“We decided that, in this season, Pennywise should be a little bit like the shark in Jaws. You really want to be strategic. In both movies, it was very important for us to keep the mystery and the fear for this character alive. We find that familiarity is the enemy of that. So it was important for us to delay the pleasure, or the terror, as much as we could,” EP Barbara Muschietti added.
Jason added that Bill “has opportunities with this character that the story of the films did not present. Not only are you getting a really, hopefully, thrilling build-up to seeing Pennywise, you are also gonna see Bill doing things you’ve not seen him do in this character yet.”
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