This ‘It’ Scene Was So ‘Disturbing’ It Had to Be Cut

Bill Skarsgård revealed that there was a scene so terrifying in the new It movie that it had to be cut. 

“There was a scene we shot that was a flashback from the 1600s, before Pennywise [was Pennywise]," the actor who plays the terrifying character explained on an episode of Variety's Playback podcast. "The scene turned out really, really disturbing. And I'm not the clown. I look more like myself. It's very disturbing, and sort of a backstory for what It is, or where Pennywise came from."

Director Andrés Muschietti decided to cut the flashback scene, but Skarsgård hinted that there is a possibility it could surface in some form in a potential sequel ...

Bill Skarsgård

"That might be something worth exploring in the second one," he said, scaring us. "The idea is the 'It' entity was dormant for thousands and thousands of years. The [flashback] scene hints on that."

As for what the scene may be? 

People have pointed out that an earlier draft of the script included "a colonial-set sequence where It devours a child" as well as a scene in an 1800s saloon where Pennywise is playing a piano.


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