FREE GIVEAWAY! For First 16 Members... Only Instructions: 1. Like this post 2. Subscribe to this channel https://tinyurl.com/mysubscribers 3. Comment 'DONE' 4. Comment with most likes, wins! Prize: $100 $100 Xbox Gift Card Now! https://tinyurl.com/Giftdollarscard For Apple Users Mcdonald's Gift Card Now! https://tinyurl.com/giftfor-few Good luck everyone! They all float... and they all grew up! It's been years since the young members of The Losers' Club first battled Pennywise in "It" (2017), and their "then and now" transformation is absolutely shocking. In this video, we'll show you what the entire "It" cast looks like in 2025.
See the incredible glow-ups of Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis, Jaeden Martell, and the rest of the gang. With the new prequel series "It: Welcome to Derry" on the way, we're taking a look back at the actors who started it all and catching up with their lives and careers today. Prepare to feel old!
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00:00Okay, so let's dive right in. Yeah, let's do it. Our focus today is pretty specific, right? We're looking at the cast of it, the 2017 movie. The big one. And really digging into, well, how much they've changed in the eight years between then and now, 2025. It's kind of amazing.
00:19It really is. I mean, this is a great deep dive because the data we have is so clear. It tracks this whole group of young actors. And, you know, eight years for adult actors, that's just, well, career stuff. But for kids, that's a total transformation, physically, professionally, everything. So we're going to pull out the key insights, look at how they've matured, and maybe uncover some surprising things about their ages that weren't obvious on screen.
00:44Exactly. And for you listening, think of this as like the quick guide. You get to see where these stars landed after eight years, you know, going from T's to young adults.
00:52Yeah, that's a make or break time for young actors.
00:55Sure. So let's jump in. Where should we start? Maybe the core losers club, the ones who are all roughly the same age.
01:01Perfect starting point. That central group, the casting there was remarkably uniform in terms of age. They set the baseline.
01:08Okay, so this is the main group, right? The heart of the movie's friendships. We're talking Jaden Martell.
01:14Jeremy Ray Taylor, Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Wyatt Olaf.
01:19The five boys, yeah.
01:21And the data shows they were all born pretty much the same year. So when it came out in 2017, they were all 14.
01:28All 14. That's the fascinating part. Finding five kids, central characters, all exactly the same age. That's tough.
01:34I bet.
01:34But it gave them that real believable chemistry, you know, that camaraderie felt genuine because they were genuinely peers.
01:42Right. And now, fast forward eight years to 2025.
01:46They're all 22. That whole core group. Young adults.
01:49Wow. 22. So they basically grew up together in the spotlight. They hit that tricky transition to adult roles kind of as a unit.
01:56Exactly. They navigated those potentially awkward years almost simultaneously. It tells you a lot about the casting strategy, doesn't it?
02:02They wanted that shared experience.
02:04Yeah. It seems like it paid off. And we can't forget Beverly Marsh, Sophia Willis.
02:08Right. Sophia. The only girl in the main losers group. And technically, she was slightly older.
02:14Just by a year, though.
02:14Correct. She was 15 back in 2017.
02:17Okay.
02:18So that puts her at 23 now in 2025. Still right there with them, but just that little bit older, which kind of fits her character's role in the group sometimes.
02:26Yeah, that makes sense.
02:27Okay.
02:27So we've got this solid core group, mostly 22, one at 23. That's our benchmark.
02:31Mm-hmm.
02:32But like you said, the really interesting stuff, the deeper analysis comes when we look at the outliers, the actors whose ages were pretty different.
02:40Absolutely. That's where the casting choices get really revealing.
02:43We should probably start with the youngest, right? The character who, well, kicks everything off. Georgie.
02:49Ah, Georgie. Poor Georgie. Jackson Robert Scott played him.
02:53Yeah.
02:53And the age gap between him and Jaden Martell, who played his older brother, Bill.
02:58Yeah.
02:58It's huge. Jackson was only nine years old in 2017.
03:02Nine. Think about that. And today, in 2025, he's 17.
03:07Still a teenager.
03:08Exactly. That's the key developmental point. The main losers, they're young adults now, right?
03:12Signing big deals, leading movies. Jackson's still technically an adolescent, probably finishing high school.
03:18His big career shift, that jump to adult roles, hasn't fully happened yet.
03:23But casting him at nine, that really emphasized the innocence, the vulnerability needed for that horrifying opening.
03:30He wasn't just a small teenager. He was actually a child.
03:33That difference is really important for the story.
03:35Okay, so that's the youngest. Now let's flip to the other end. The biggest surprise, I think, in the whole cast list.
03:41Oh, yeah. This one's pretty wild.
03:43Chosen Jacobs. He played Mike Hanlon. Looked like he fit right in with the other losers, the 14-year-old.
03:48He really did. But the data tells a very different story. This is like a master class in casting, maybe.
03:54How so? What was his actual age?
03:56Okay, get ready for this. When it came out in 2017, Chosen Jacobs was 26 years old.
04:02Wait, 26? Seriously?
04:0426. Playing a 14-year-old alongside actual 14-year-olds?
04:08Wow. So he was a full adult, like way into his career, acting with kids who were literally half his age.
04:15How did they even make that work? How did they hide a 12-year age gap?
04:19Well, it's fascinating, right? And it probably wasn't just hidden. It was likely strategic.
04:24You know, casting older actors for teen roles happens a lot.
04:27Okay, why, though?
04:28Well, a few reasons, probably. First, maybe emotional maturity.
04:33Mike Hanlon's character is often the sort of quiet, steady one. The researcher.
04:39Yeah, the historian of the group.
04:40Right. An older actor, someone who's 26, can bring a level of depth and groundedness to that role, maybe more easily than a typical 14-year-old going through, well, being 14.
04:50That makes sense. He did seem very centered.
04:52And second, logistics. This is a big one.
04:54Ah, like work hours?
04:56Exactly. Child labor laws are strict. There are limits on how many hours minors can work.
05:00Casting a 26-year-old, he can work full adult hours. That gives the production way more flexibility in scheduling.
05:06I never thought about that angle. That's huge for filming.
05:08It is. And now, fast forward to 2025, Chosen Jacobs is 34.
05:1334. Well, the rest of the main losers are 22-23.
05:19Big difference. His career path is just on a completely different track because of that initial casting decision.
05:25It gave the production flexibility and it gave him a different kind of launch pad.
05:29That totally changes how you see the group dynamic on set. One of them wasn't a kid at all.
05:33Absolutely. It's a layer you just don't see on screen.
05:35Okay, so should we quickly touch on the supporting teens?
05:38The antagonists?
05:40Yeah, the bullies. They needed to seem older and more intimidating than the Losers Club.
05:45Right. They had to bridge that gap between the 14-year-olds and, well, Pennywise.
05:51So, you look at Nicholas Hamilton, who played Henry Bowers.
05:53Terrifying.
05:54He was 17 back in 2017.
05:56And Owen Teague, who played Patrick Hoxstetter.
05:58Also very creepy.
05:59He was 18.
06:00Okay, so 17 and 18 compared to the core group at 14. That three or four-year difference feels pretty significant when you're that age.
06:08Oh, definitely. Physically, psychologically, that age gap gives you instant dominance, which is exactly what those roles needed.
06:14And connecting that to now, 2025. Nicholas Hamilton is 25. Owen Teague is 26. They're following a similar path to the Losers, but they started a bit older. They're well into their young adult careers now.
06:27Makes sense. Okay, so we've covered the main Losers, the big age outliers, the teen bullies. Feels like we're missing someone crucial.
06:35The man himself. Or the entity itself. Pennywise.
06:39Ah, yes. Bill Skarsgård. Stepping into, I mean, truly iconic horror shoes.
06:45Incredible performance.
06:46So, what was his age situation during filming? Especially compared to the kids and teens.
06:51Okay, so Bill Skarsgård was 27 in 2017.
06:5427.
06:54Which means now, in 2025, he's 35.
06:57And here's what's really interesting for context.
06:59When they were filming Skarsgård playing this ancient, terrifying evil, he was only a few years older than Owen Teague, who played the bully Patrick Hoxstetter.
07:08Teague was 18. Skarsgård was 27. Not a massive gap, really.
07:11Wow, that's kind of crazy. So, he wasn't, like, decades older than everyone. He was still relatively young himself, but had to project this immense, ancient power.
07:18Exactly. That's a huge weight for a 27-year-old actor.
07:22Taking on Pennywise, being that terrifying figure, when chronologically, he was still fairly early in his adult career.
07:28Yeah, that really speaks to his skill. He didn't need decades of life experience to pull that off. Just talent.
07:33Pure talent and commitment to the role, yeah.
07:36Incredible. Okay, so let's maybe pull this all together. Recap the main takeaways from this eight-year look back.
07:42Well, the big picture is that synchronized aging for the core losers.
07:46Right.
07:46From 14 to 22, almost in lockstep.
07:48Right. But the real deep insight, like you said, comes from those extremes.
07:52Definitely. You've got Jackson Roberts-Scott, Georgie, who's still just 17, still an adolescent.
07:57And then you have Chosen Jacobs, Mike, who's now 34, revealing that huge, successfully hidden age gap in the original casting.
08:05Yeah, that 12-year difference is the stunner.
08:07That's the main takeaway, I think.
08:09Yeah.
08:09The speed and uniformity of the core groups jump to adulthood versus the strategic use of age differences in the supporting roles and even within the Losers Club itself.
08:19So we looked at 11 key actors and basically watched them go from kids and teens to established young adult stars in just eight years.
08:29It's a really compressed, intense period of growth.
08:33And knowing these ages helps you appreciate not just their talent journey, but also like the cleverness maybe of fame casting.
08:39Yeah, they really did manage that tricky teen to 20 transition, which sinks a lot of young actors.
08:45And they did it kind of as a cohort.
08:47It's statistically pretty rare for a group that large from one project to maintain that visibility and success through those gap years.
08:55Makes this cast pretty special.
08:56Okay, so that brings us to the end.
08:58But we always like to leave you, the listener, with something to think about.
09:02Right, a little homework.
09:03So we know there's that prequel series coming, right?
09:05Welcome to Derry.
09:06On HBO Max or Max, whatever it's called now.
09:09Yeah.
09:09So thinking about how fast this 2017 cast grew up, they're all adults now, 20s, 30s.
09:15Right.
09:16And knowing how they played with age in the first film, hiding that big gap with Chosen Jacobs.
09:22How do you think this eight-year reality check might influence the prequel?
09:26Ooh, good question.
09:27Like what will fan expectations be knowing the original kids are now adults?
09:32And maybe more importantly, what kind of casting tricks might they use this time?
09:36Exactly.
09:36Will they cast actual young teens?
09:39Or will they go for older actors again to get that maturity or avoid work restrictions?
09:45What kind of age gaps might they try to bridge for Welcome to Derry?
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