The most anticipated horror movie of 2019 has been delayed indefinitely after a grisly on-set accident left a poor child half-eaten.
It was a normal Monday for actor Bill Skarsgard, known for his roles in Hulu’s Castle Rock and 2017’s It, who was dressed head to toe in the already iconic attire of Pennywise the clown. Like every day of the last several months, Skarsgard was intimidating smaller adults and children on the set of It: Chapter Two, with and without the cameras rolling.
Skarsgard, as stated by director Andres Muschietti, has been in “full-on method acting mode” since shooting for the sequel began.
“It’s crazy, yeah. The first film made so much money that Bill (Skarsgard) sort of had this problem, this internal crisis, about acting in the second movie,” says Muschietti. “He didn’t know how to top his performance and continue scaring audiences around the globe. He approached me in the Pennywise apparel - and this is well before we started filming, so I have no idea how he managed that - and he convinced me that a method approach was what the sequel needed in order to be truly scary.”
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| Bill Hader runs from a crazed Bill Skarsgard on the set of It: Chapter Two |
Skarsgard’s dedication to the role crossed a line in the early hours of Monday morning when the actor reportedly ate the lower half of Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things), who reprises his role of young Richie Tozier in the film.
“Yeah, he just kind of started eating him,” actor Bill Hader, who plays Tozier’s adult counterpart, told us over the phone. “The Duffer brothers called Finn to prank him with a Stranger Things cancellation, and he commented about how scary it was before he knew that they were just yanking his chain. (Bill) Skarsgard really just popped up behind us - I guess he was eavesdropping or whatever - and he grabbed Finn and said, he said, “I’ll show you something really scary.” Then he grabbed a mouthful of shinbone.”
Hader went on to say the encounter was “The scariest thing I’ve ever seen. And I was on the set of Tropic Thunder with Tom Cruise.”
Skarsgard has released an official apology to Finn Wolfhard, who is expected to make a miraculous recovery, claiming the incident to be a “complete method accident.” It’s yet to be determined if Wolfhard plans to press charges.
The accidental eating of Wolfhard's lower-half has halted the production of It: Chapter Two indefinitely, much to the chagrin of the fans who have anxiously awaited the sequel since September of 2017. The original film out-grossed every horror film in history at the box office, and the sequel was expected to put up equally high numbers.
I guess we’ll have to wait a little while longer to see how it fares.
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