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00:00You all right, buddy? You all right? Yeah, give me five.
00:06I'm fine, Bill. Stop patronising me.
00:09Bill and Nicholas, hello. How are you both doing today?
00:11Good, thank you.
00:13Having deja vu?
00:14Still okay?
00:15Still good.
00:16Huge congratulations to you both for this film.
00:18I absolutely loved it. It was incredible.
00:21One of the most profoundly terrifying things I've seen in years.
00:26I haven't slept in a week.
00:28Then we succeeded.
00:29Yes, well done.
00:31You're saying it with a smile, so you appreciated the fear.
00:33I've become desensitised to the horrors of the world now after this.
00:37If I can get through that, I can get through anything.
00:40Come to me.
00:46Were there any moments on set that sort of frightened you?
00:50Or is it kind of a case of when you're on set and filming something,
00:54is it like seeing how the sausage gets made?
00:56The only moment I remember being like,
00:57I wonder what happens in this scenario,
00:59was there's a scene where these wolves are chasing me.
01:03And they had these Czech shepherd dogs that I'd been introduced to before.
01:07Were they like wolfhounds?
01:08Yeah, and they were like, they're just like normal dogs, they're fine.
01:11But then when you'd go to touch them, they'd be like, don't touch them there.
01:13And then they'd be like, give them the treat, give them the treat straight away.
01:16So it was like, they're normal dogs.
01:17But then also like, don't behave like they're normal dogs.
01:20And then they were like...
01:21Just don't look them in the eye.
01:21And then on the day, they were like spray painted black.
01:24And I think, like, I don't know how they performed,
01:27but they were like riled up.
01:29And I was like running on the spot and like trying to get out of breath
01:31and like get into the physicality of the scene.
01:34And they'd be like held back across the room from me on leashes.
01:38But like, when I would start going, they'd like get wound up
01:41and like barking like intensely at me and staring at me
01:44like I was a juicy little snack.
01:46And then they'd call action and I'd take off running
01:50and try and climb out this window.
01:51But there was one time where I slipped
01:52and like I made it out the window before they got there.
01:55But there was part of me that was like,
01:56oh, I wonder what happens if they do get to me.
01:59There is a devil in this world and I have met him.
02:02There is some adorable behind the scenes footage from It
02:06when you're in the full Pennywise get up
02:08and you're kind of checking that the kids are OK after every scene.
02:12Yeah.
02:12Was there any safeguarding like that in place for this between you guys?
02:16Or was it like, no, you know what?
02:17No, they're all adults in this movie.
02:18We're all grown ups, we can just let it go.
02:20He didn't care.
02:22He didn't look after us.
02:23You all right, buddy? You all right? Give me five.
02:29I'm fine, Bill.
02:29No.
02:30Stop patronising me.
02:32You OK?
02:33You OK?
02:34That scene where you two meet for the first time,
02:36it's so visceral and terrifying.
02:39Was that the first time that you saw Count Orlok
02:42like with the prosthetics and the makeup?
02:44I think fully, yeah.
02:45I'd heard a recording of your voice and we'd rehearsed,
02:48but you weren't in the full prosthetics when we rehearsed everything.
02:50So that was the first time that it was all kind of put together.
02:52And then it was completely immersive
02:54because, you know, the sets that Craig designed
02:57and the way that Jarren lights them
02:59and the way that Rob creates an atmosphere on set,
03:01he plays music and stuff,
03:02so it feels already like a very imposing place to be.
03:04But then you've got this brilliant performance by Bill
03:06playing this terrifying character in there as well.
03:09And it is a heightened reality
03:11that is very easy then to be scared within.
03:16Standing before me was...
03:21Death.
03:22But I'd never been so happy.
03:24It wasn't my first rodeo with prosthetics.
03:27And I'd seen...
03:29Robert, he actually made sort of a digital painting,
03:32a drawing of Orlok that he shared with me.
03:35But then, you know, I saw what David White,
03:38the prosthetic designer, did.
03:41I just saw the bust of it.
03:42Like, they built it off of your face mold.
03:45And I was like, OK, well...
03:47I don't think this guy looked like me when he was alive.
03:49Like, he's a undead sorcerer vampire.
03:54And then once they started blending the pieces
03:57and the hair and the moustache came on,
03:59I saw him come alive.
04:00And I can also see how I could make...
04:04how I could make this face come alive.
04:08But you study yourself and you go, like, OK,
04:10so there's, you know, how, where do I put,
04:14like, how do I shape my mouth and my eyes?
04:18And you find different...
04:20Like, oh, it doesn't look good here, but looks great here.
04:22And, like, all that kind of stuff.
04:23So you're very self-conscious in studying it.
04:27And then you have another test.
04:29And then on the third test, the actual camera test,
04:32was the first time where I felt that the character came through me.
04:37Come to me.
04:40How did the voice come to you?
04:42Because that's such a huge part of this performance
04:44and it's what makes you so transformative in it.
04:46Yeah, yeah. Well, the voice...
04:48The voice was a lot of...
04:51A lot of work.
04:52And that was, like, leading up to the shoot.
04:55You know, I worked with an opera singer, also Youn's daughter,
04:58an Icelandic opera singer,
04:59to find sort of the different placements in the body of the voice.
05:04I was also losing a lot of weight for the character,
05:07which is not helpful because the bigger you are,
05:09the more of a chest you have that resonates.
05:13So I was like, OK, this is counterintuitive
05:14to get the voice as deep as possible.
05:18But... So there was a whole technical aspect of it.
05:20And then it was just me recording myself,
05:23listening back, recording, listening back, recording, listening back.
05:26And I noticed that I could...
05:28Because I recorded myself so many times,
05:30I knew when I was like, OK,
05:32now I'm in a place where I can easily access the voice.
05:36And then certain times I'm like, oh, now I'm tight.
05:38So why am I tight?
05:39And why isn't the voice coming out the way I want?
05:42So I built this sort of routine for myself,
05:45a 20-minute routine to get us relaxed.
05:48Like, you can massage your larynx.
05:50You can do all these little exercises to kind of be relaxed.
05:54And you get deeper and you get deeper.
05:57And I would do sort of breathing exercises,
06:02like three rounds of breathing exercises.
06:04And that opens the chest up.
06:06And I really needed to be so relaxed
06:10and not tense for it to be activated.
06:12You will obey this, my council.
06:15But, my lord...