Rob Bowker and Andrew Davies said on ITV’s This Morning that Pennywise – played by Bill Skarsgard – is not a real clown, and slammed the movie’s low budget.
“It’s not a clown,” Bowker said.
“What it is is a horror movie, and he’s immortal and he has to feed every 27 years and he morphs into many different beings – the clown being one of them.
“The little boy you seeing dragged down the drain, he morphs into him at one point to fool his bigger brother Billy into following him.”
He added: “But it’s nothing to do with clowning and everything to do with a cheap Hollywood movie that’s taken millions of pounds.
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“Because they don’t need Brad Pitt, they don’t need Tom Cruise. The guy that’s playing the clown – never heard of him.”
When host Phillip Schofield pointed out how well It is doing at the box office, after it netted a huge $117 million in the US alone over the weekend, Bowker agreed: “The audience last night was packed! I’ve got no problem with the film.
“It’s a cheap budget movie, poor CGI graphics. I reckon the guy who invented the Fidget Spinner has also done this film – they’ve spent as little money as possible for maximum effect.”
Speaking of people’s phobias where clowns are concerned, Davies mused: “The word ‘scared’ – when parents say ‘don’t be scared’, why should the child be scared?
“The first thing the child is going to think is, ‘should I be scared?’”
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