Chosen Jacobs on Meeting Adult Mike in IT: CHAPTER TWO
Chosen Jacobs
Principal photography has begun on New Line Cinema’s It Chapter Two, director Andy Muschietti’s follow-up to 2017’s critically acclaimed and massive worldwide box office hit IT. And today we have a fun bit via an interview young Mike Hanlon had recently where he talks the cast meeting their adult counterparts for the first time.
“We met the older cast, and they did such a phenomenal job with casting for each role. Seeing everyone in person, it’s so accurate. Especially for me. I felt like Isaiah is the perfect match for Older Mike Hanlon,” Jacobs shared with ComicBook.com. “It was an awesome thing, and we collaborated. He asked me questions on, ‘Okay, how do you think about this?’ and ‘How do you think Mike would play this?’ And I just sat down, gave him my embodiment of it.”
He continues: “I trust him as an actor to make his own decisions as Mike Hanlon, but then just giving him how I viewed Mike, and just giving him little pointers of how I think Mike would act. With his skill level as an actor, he’ll run with that. I have total faith in all of our older versions to just kill the roles. But meeting him in person did give me a lot of peace and solace that the film was in good hands.”
“It’s kind of a funny story. He actually told me this when we first met,” Jacobs recalled. “He said his last name is ‘Mustafa,’ right? And Mustafa means ‘chosen’ in … I don’t know what the language was, but that was kind of a crazy thing.”
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The film co-stars Jessica Chastain as adult Beverly, James McAvoy stars as Bill, Bill Hader as Richie, Jay Ryan as Ben, Andy Bean stars as Stanley, and James Ransone as Eddie. Reprising their roles as the original members of the Losers Club are Jaeden Lieberher as Bill, Wyatt Oleff as Stanley, Sophia Lillis as Beverly, Finn Wolfhard as Richie, Jeremy Ray Taylor as Ben, and Jack Dylan Grazer as Eddie. Bill Skarsgård returns in the seminal role of Pennywise.
Muschietti directs from a screenplay by Gary Dauberman based on the novel by Stephen King. Barbara Muschietti, Dan Lin, and Roy Lee are producing the film. Marty Ewing, Seth Grahame-Smith, and David Katzenberg are the executive producers. The behind-the-scenes creative team includes director of photography Checco Varese, Oscar-winning production designer Paul D. Austerberry, editor Jason Ballantine, and costume designer Luis Sequeira.
The film is set to open in theaters September 6, 2019.
Synopsis:
Because every 27 years evil revisits the town of Derry, Maine, It Chapter Two brings the characters—who’ve long since gone their separate ways—back together as adults, nearly three decades after the events of the first film.
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