Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd floated by Conan,<\/i> where he shared the story of how he came up with his creepy clown smile for the film It<\/i>. Turns out that long before scaring record audiences, Skarsg\u00e5rd was scaring his little brother with that smile.<\/p>\n
Skarsg\u00e5rd said when he was about 10 years old, he saw his older brother, Gustaf, make a silly face, and he tried to duplicate it to scare his younger brother. It worked so well at terrifying his brother that Skarsg\u00e5rd knew it\u2019d be perfect for the film.<\/p>\n
While the 27-year-old already had the smile in his pocket, he had to work on the creepy laugh.<\/p>\n
Skarsg\u00e5rd said that during the audition process for Pennywise, the director asked him to also develop a laugh. And since Bill was living with four people at the time, the only available place to rehearse was in L.A. traffic.<\/p>\n
The actor said, \u201cI started with the laugh driving through Hollywood in clown face laughing like a maniac.\u201d<\/p>\n