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It Chapter 2

“All Those Sit Ups And your still a FAT loser” Pennywise

Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too.

Did knowing this detail about him affect how you played the character?

It just gave me more to play. We did a lot of different versions of Eddie’s death scene. We did one where he’s clearly dead, and I’m refusing to recognize it. And some where I was very tender with him, where I’m caressing his face — this is the person I love, and it wasn’t just lust. It’s truly love.

[In other scenes] I was playing off James, but knowing on some level that I loved him. It’s something [Richie] can’t connect to, so he has to hate that thing. It’s very adolescent. “I have a crush on you, but I don’t want to tell you that, so I’m going to push you away. But man, if he made the first move, that’d be the best thing ever.”

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There was just no possibility that Richie could have been mature and told Eddie how he really felt about him?

I think with Eddie, it’s frozen like that. It’s like when you’ve known someone forever. |…] You revert back because your relationship’s been established at a certain age.