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Timothée Chalamet previously had the golden ticket.
The “Wonka” actor revealed that he failed to seek out tips from Johnny Depp soon after taking on the function of the titular sweet male in forthcoming motion picture.
“No, and I appreciate that version,” Chalamet solely instructed E! News’ Erin Lim Rhodes on “The Rundown,” referring to Depp’s effectiveness in 2005’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility”. “[That] version arrived out when I was about 10 or 11 a long time old, and I just assumed it was incredibly daring.”
But the movie that very first welcomed him into a globe of pure imagination? Properly, that would be the 1971 film “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Manufacturing unit,” with Chalamet noting he loves Gene Wilder’s legendary portrayal as properly.
As he place it, “The Gene Wilder version I saw initial technically, mainly because my mom—that’s the a person I grew up on.”
As for Depp, he took a distinctive method when starring in the Tim Burton adaptation nearly 20 several years in the past, telling Ellen DeGeneres in 2012, “I imagined what George Bush would be like exceptionally stoned… and as a result was born my version of Willy Wonka.”
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But when it came time for Chalamet to don the beloved character’s velvet suit and leading hat, he may well have leaned on a person of his own past roles as an alternative: his rapping alter ego Lil Timmy Tim from his school times.
The 27-12 months-aged joked that “no just one” in his life receives to see Timmy Tim any longer, telling E! Information that the persona is “locked away deep into a corner of the digital footprint and [a] deep, darkish element of my thoughts.”
However, Chalamet’s vocal talents will be on full show in “Wonka,” the origin story of the chocolatier dependent on the 1964 novel by Roald Dahl. If you want to look at paradise, “Wonka” hits theaters Dec. 15.
Capture more from the premiere of “Wonka”—co-starring Olivia Colman and Hugh Grant—on “The Rundown” on Snapchat.
