IT: Welcome to Derry brought horror fans back to where Pennywise began, and actor Miles Ekhardt brought the ultimate transformation to life. As viewers should know by now, Miles’ character, 12-year-old Matty Clements, is part of the monstrous clown’s hat trick in the series — and the rising star didn’t even know about it until long after he auditioned!
News47.us caught up with Miles in an exclusive interview after the season 1 finale aired. Below, get to know Miles and learn exclusive details from our interview about his IT: Welcome to Derry performance.
Miles’ acting résumé is growing! Before landing his role in IT: Welcome to Derry, he previously starred in the film Turtles All the Way Down as the character Noah.
During his exclusive interview with News47.us, Miles revealed that he didn’t know about Matty’s Pennywise revelation “for a while” — at least for a year after he first auditioned for the role.
“By the time I was on set, I had an idea of everything that my character would be in. But that — I did not [know] for a while,” Miles said about the Matty-Pennywise shocker. “That was a year after my first audition. I think, roughly until I was in Toronto, I did not know I had anything past the first episode.”
In fact, Miles thought his character was killed off in the first episode. “I thought I [my character] just died there, and that was it,” he added.
Since It fans are familiar with the one and only Bill Skarsgård‘s performance as the sewer-dwelling clown, Miles explained how he found a way to make Matty’s transformation his own — a process he told News47.us was “de-Mattying” while “definitely” keeping Bill’s performance in mind.
