In September 2017, on the night of his 29th birthday, Jovan Adepo braved a 10 p.m. screening of It by himself. “Bad idea,” he tells me. “You’re in New York, walking back by yourself…if a clown was trying to come get me, he’d have a great shot.” The England-born, American-raised actor now stars in It: Welcome to Derry , HBO’s terrifying prequel series set roughly two decades before the first film. As Pennywise the clown begins his reign of psychological torture by injecting his victims — a group of susceptible kids — with fear, the show is riddled with jump scares and gnarly horror sequences that may make it the scariest entry in the many adaptations of the 1986 Stephen King novel. Luckily, Adepo is a fan of the genre, and in Andy Muschietti’s vision of the franchise, this iteration d

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