Actors Who Made People Cry On Set

Posted by Sebrina Pilcher on Friday, May 3, 2024

On a normal day, making children cry might not be a good thing for actor Bill Skarsgard, but when he's decked out in his Pennywise clown makeup on the set of It, those tears are a testament to how terrifying he is while in character. 

In a chat with Interview, Skarsgard spoke about the difficult situation he found himself in on the horror movie set, "If I succeed at doing what I'm trying to do with this character," he said. "I'll traumatize kids." He detailed a particularly disturbing moment while filming. "At one point, they set up this entire scene, and these kids come in, and none of them have seen me yet," he recalled. "Some of them were really intrigued, but some couldn't look at me, and some were shaking. This one kid started crying. He started to cry and the director yelled, 'Action!'"

Those kids weren't the only ones traumatized by the experience. Skarsgard scarred himself, too. He admitted to thinking, "Holy sh*t. What am I doing? What is this? This is horrible." It was no laughing matter, but the actor kept clowning around until he no doubt became the nightmare fuel for an entire generation.

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