Spoilers forward for the most recent episode, episode 5, of It: Welcome to Derry, HBO’s latest hit.

We lastly received our first actual glimpse at Pennywise the Clown (performed by Invoice Skarsgard) after a number of episodes of ready!

The prequel collection has been following a gaggle of schoolkids in Derry, Maine as they’re tortured by the evil character, all whereas a gaggle of officers is concurrently looking the being.

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In a memorable scene, Matty Clements (Miles Ekhardt), who died earlier within the season, got here again to work with the group of youngsters and make them the sewers.

Nevertheless, it turned out that Matty was not alive in any case. He was merely Pennywise in disguise. Matty shapeshifted into Pennywise, scaring the youngsters and main them to run wildly out of the sewer system whereas Lilly fell behind.

Lilly miraculously is saved solely as a result of a dagger, thought to have the ability to hurt It, fell into the water the place she was standing.

Now, the creators of the present are talking out in regards to the character’s huge return.

Co-showrunner Jason Fuchs informed EW, “We at all times knew this was not gonna be entrance and heart within the first scene of the pilot in the best way that It 1 opens with the introduction to Georgie and Pennywise. However an enormous a part of the inventive course of was, ‘When will we introduce this character within the context of this story?’ It actually was a operate, finally, of the story and the characters dictating it.”

“We determined that, on this season, Pennywise must be a bit bit just like the shark in Jaws. You actually wish to be strategic. In each films, it was crucial for us to maintain the thriller and the concern for this character alive. We discover that familiarity is the enemy of that. So it was essential for us to delay the pleasure, or the phobia, as a lot as we might,” EP Barbara Muschietti added.

Jason added that Invoice “has alternatives with this character that the story of the movies didn’t current. Not solely are you getting a extremely, hopefully, thrilling build-up to seeing Pennywise, you might be additionally gonna see Invoice doing stuff you’ve not seen him do on this character but.”

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