The scary clown wasn’t the only fear that Finn Wolfhard and his colleagues had to face during filming It.
In an exclusive chat with PEOPLE about his partnership with Ring for Great Ghost Search, the 21-year-old actor recalls potentially seeing a ghost on the set of the 2017 horror film.
“I’ve been in a lot of supernatural movies and TV shows, but ironically, I’ve never seen a real ghost,” says Wolfhard, “but there was a time when I was a kid shooting It in this abandoned mansion in Toronto, and me and a bunch of other actors were exploring the floors.”
“We went upstairs and we saw a guy in black there working as an electrician, and we were like, ‘Okay, that’s just a crew member,'” he continues. “But we found out later that nobody knew who it was and nobody ever saw it again.”
“One could have just messed around, but, yeah, it was pretty scary,” adds the star — who has appeared in other horror-based projects including Stranger Things, Rotation and The Addams Familyplus Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Frozen Empire.
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The cast of ‘It’.
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IN ItWolfhard stars as Richie Tozier, a member of a group of friends known as the Losers Club who are terrorized by a demonic entity that appears in the form of the dancing clown Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård).
In addition to the actor, the film also features Sophia Lillis, Jaden Lieberher, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer and Jeremy Ray Taylor.
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The first of a two-part adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 novel of the same name, 2017. It he followed It: Chapter Twowhich was published in 2019.
In it, Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone and Andy Bean take on the role of adult versions of the Losers Club, who return to their hometown of Derry to fight Pennywise after a long hibernation.
Both film versions Itas well as a two-part miniseries from the 1990s dealing with the story, are available to stream on Max.
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