Wonka: the highly anticipated Christmas movie
When we mention the name Willy Wonka, we obviously think of the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, adapted from the novel by Roald Dahl, released in 1971 starring Gene Wilder. Let’s also think of Tim Burton’s 2005 adaptation, with Johnny Depp as the eccentric chocolatier.
This year it is a new version of the character that we will discover in the role of Timothée Chalamet in Wonkadirected by Paul King (to whom we owe the saga Paddington). This film, which will be released in theaters on December 13, will trace the youth of the character well known to the public, and how he became the great chocolatier and magician Willy Wonka. Naturally there will be the figure of the Oompa Loompa represented in the film, in the guise of Hugh Grant. In the 2005 film, these little creatures who work in the chocolate factory were played by actor Deep Roy.
A painful experience for Hugh Grant
In Wonka, Hugh Grant plays a grumpy Oompa Loompa named Lofty, who meets the young chocolatier. To make him seem small, the film’s production used motion capture. A technique that Hugh Grant didn’t like at allas he has repeatedly stated in interviews (via UK Underground).
With his deadpan British humor, the 63-year-old actor, recently seen in Dungeons & Dragonshe then confided that this experience (for which he had to play with cameras fixed to his head) was “very uncomfortable, like wearing a crown of thorns”:
I complained about this a lot (…) I couldn’t have hated this whole experience more (…) what I did with my body was terrible, and everything was replaced by an animator.
When asked if it was worth it after seeing the final product, he shrugged, “not really,” at the other laughing cast members, before adding:
I hate making films, but I have many children and I need money.
Paul King said that Hugh Grant was the perfect Oompa Loompa because of his sarcastic humor. And his recent statements can only prove him right.
Source: Cine Serie
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