"For IT: Welcome to Derry star and First Nations actor Joshua Odjick, Pennywise might look a bit like, well, Joshua Odjick. "I'm my own worst critic," the 24-year-old actor and member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, tells me over Zoom. "What scares me the most is [me] not doing enough. Putting so many expectations on myself and not reaching those expectations, that's one fear.""
"In Welcome to Derry's fourth episode, "The Great Swirling Apparatus of Our Planet's Function," the show gives audiences their biggest peek yet at Pennywise's "origin story" in a climactic sequence inside the consciousness of a young Native man, Taniel, played by Odjick. A member of the fictional Shokopiwah tribe, Taniel is a quiet young man who answers to his beloved aunt, Rose (Kimberly Norris Guerrero), who has a personal history with the U.S. Army general tasked with finding and weaponizing "the Entity" for Uncle Sam."
Joshua Odjick, a 24-year-old actor and member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, portrays Taniel in IT: Welcome to Derry. Taniel is a quiet member of the fictional Shokopiwah tribe who answers to his aunt Rose, who has ties to a U.S. Army general seeking to find and weaponize the Entity. The series functions as a prequel to the Muschietti films and situates Pennywise within 1960s Cold War anxieties. Episode four stages a climactic sequence inside Taniel's consciousness that offers a substantial glimpse of Pennywise's origin. Odjick describes personal fears of not meeting expectations and brings introspective, soft-spoken depth to the role.
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