You guys know that there’s an AIDS epidemic out there right now, as we speak, right? I mean, my mom’s friend in New York City got it just by touching a dirty pole in the subway and enough of AIDS blood got into her system through a hangnail. Through a hangnail!
The Book: “He had a reasonable, even pleasant voice.”
Tim Curry: HEYA KIDS WU-HA HA HAA
Bill Skarsgård: NyeEAUgh mmMn hiyA GEorgiE HEyEeeeEe
Tim Curry’s Pennywise sounds like an old, practically-out-of-work clown that’s been smoking for thirteen years and if you hired him for a party he’d make your kids shitty balloon animals and tell them about the inevitability of death and how their parents don’t want them, but do nothing else
Bill Skarsgard’s Pennywise sounds like a child predator that’s been living in the woods since he turned 23 and has specifically learned exactly how to talk to kids to get their guards down and if you hired him for a party he’d be a pristine example of a good clown until the parents turn their backs and then three of the kids are suddenly missing