This Secret About Timothée Chalamet’s Willy Wonka Casting Proves He Had a Golden Ticket – E! On-line

Name Timothée Chalamet by this identify: a triple menace.

Director Paul King lately revealed that the Dune actor did not should audition to land the starring position of Willy Wonka in upcoming musical movie Wonka, which traces the backstory of the chocolate mogul. In reality, King revealed Chalamet’s golden ticket stemmed from his singing and dancing skills.

“It was a straight supply as a result of he is nice and he was the one individual in my thoughts who might do it,” King instructed Rolling Stone in an interview revealed July 11. “However as a result of he is Timothée Chalamet and his life is so absurd, his highschool musical performances are on YouTube and have a whole lot of 1000’s of views.”

The performances in query? Movies of the then-teenage King star belting out songs from Sweet Charity throughout a efficiency at his Fiorello H. LaGuardia Excessive College. 

“So I knew from stanning for Timmy Chalamet that he might sing and dance rather well,” King added. “And I knew that was in his arsenal, however I did not understand how good he was. After I spoke to him he was fairly eager.”