Overview
- Sharing excerpts from his new memoir Vagabond, the actor reflects on his 1990 It performance and clarifies long-circulating misconceptions.
- He disputes the extreme rumor that he couldn’t look at himself in the mirror, saying he didn’t delight in his reflection but was not incapacitated by it.
- He explains that his years of public quiet were misread as deep conflict, adding that he didn’t revel in the role yet carries no lingering grievance.
- He writes that many fans tell him the character traumatized them or ruined their sleep, conversations he describes as awkward to navigate.
- He credits Stephen King’s story and calls the 1990 miniseries a strong adaptation, even if it wasn’t what he terms a “Stoppard experience.”