Hugh Grant says ‘Wonka’ director sent him a naked Oompa Loompa image
nme.comHugh Grant has revealed that Wonka director Paul King sent him an image of a naked Oompa Loompa as a joke while they were working together.Grant plays an 18-inch tall Oompa Loompa in the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel, which arrived in cinemas yesterday (December 8).“Paul, quite early on in the editing process, sent me a mock-up of the Oompa Loompa stark naked.
And my little children were a little alarmed at that,” Grant told People. When asked why King had sent the image, he added that it was “to amuse him”.King explained to the outlet that the time, the film’s effects team were still figuring out “the colour of the skin and the way the hair works and on all the kind of details of it,” and, in that stage of animation, the Oompa Loompa “had no clothes” yet“It was one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen in my life,” King said “If it ever leaks out, a generation of children will be scarred.He clarified that the figure “was very delicately pixelated.
There was nothing untoward. It’s just something once you’ve seen, you can’t unsee it.”Grant, who previously worked with King on Paddington 2 where he played villain Phoenix Buchanan, went on to say that he signed on to play an Oompa Loompa because he’s “into my freak phase of my career, sort of circus freaks” with characters who are “weirder and weirder.”“I think he has a very pleasing lack of vanity,” added King. “He’s very happy to look as ridiculous as I ask him to — I got him in a dog suit eating dog food in Paddington 2.
So I think once he’d done that, he’d already hit bottom,” he jokes. “This was coming back up in the dignity state.”Despite this, Grant has also said that he “couldn’t have hated” playing an Oompa Loompa more because the motion.
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