those skarsgård tried to resist becoming
one of the skarsgård actors but denying
his genetic talents would have denied
the world of one of the century's most
terrifying reimagining of a killer clown
this is the evolution of Bill skarsgård
bill skarsgård was predestined for the
stage
his father stellan skarsgård known for
his roles in Good Will Hunting a Mossad
and the mama mia films would turn his
films productions into family vacations
for his wife and eight children for a
kid acting is like the most appealing
job ever like you're eight years old and
you're on a set and your dad it's like
your dad's your dad but like on set he
has like a gun fake mustache and like
the whole thing yeah right so for me
it's like that for us a kid like that's
what you do being a kid playing like
with your friends so the appeal of this
imaginary you know fantastical way of
just being paid and being adult and
acting like a child I think was planted
at a very young age Bill's first acting
credit was at the age of nine alongside
his older brother Alexander in the
Swedish coming-of-age flick whitewater
fury which was released in 2000 bill
spent the next decade using his father's
connections and natural talent to book
small roles but he rejected the idea of
joining the family business of acting
his rebellion even led him to major in
science in high school
joking that he would become a doctor
however when he read the script for
Hannes Holmes's behind blue skies his
passion was ignited I don't know what I
need to do he said but I need to be in
your film bill landed that role and
three years later realized his breakout
star potential and Netflix's Hemlock
Grove she
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while bill was portraying kaki
sex-obsessed vampire Roman Godfrey
Alexander was finishing up his own blood
sucking tenure on HBO's True Blood and
preparing to take on a role of a former
rainforest Adonis in the Legend of
Tarzan his older brother Gustav has
starred in history's Vikings in HBO's
West's role while little brother falter
brings up the rear of the skarsgård
actors with a majority of his acting
credits being in Sweden so far bill has
also had supporting roles in the third
installment of the divergent franchise
Allegiant and the Charlize Theron led
atomic blonde but it's undeniable that
he was born for the sinister side of
cinema for it a reimagining of the 1990
miniseries based on Stephen King's 1986
novel bill transforms into the demonic
dancing clown Pennywise who plays the
town of Derry every 27 years by
kidnapping and feasting on its children
he often tells the story of driving to
his audition in full clown face and
laughing maniacally to get into
character but the fact that he brought
his own freaky body tricks to the role
is less well known I wanted to give
Pennywise a wall die
because in my vision of the character
sometimes his eye would fall off and
something that was very cute and sweet
turns into something much more
unsettling because he has that weird
balance so when I mentioned that I
wanted to do that digitally he said I
can do it I had kind of a lazy eye and I
can like make it go it chapter 2
featuring an all grown-up losers Club
will premiere in fall of 2019 meanwhile
bill is still exploring the world of
Stephen King and Hulu's castle rock this
10 episode miniseries pulls from Kings
stories to create a thrilling and
unsettling multiverse those start at the
keto diet before filming to lose weight
because he wanted to enhance his
mysterious characters creepiness with a
gaunt ghost-like appearance no doubt
though skarsgård has given children
nightmares and horror fans wet dreams I
like dark stories dark characters it's
fun I don't like doing the same thing
over and over again so yeah I'll do I'll
do
happy rom-com next his family's eyes
might have gotten him into the acting
business but the commitment and
fearlessness that he brings to every
role has propelled him into an eerily
effecting league of his own Tony well
vote down here don't sleep on Bill
skarsgård he's sure to give Hollywood a
fright for years to come
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