‘Wonka’: The hilarious reason why Timothée Chalamet got the job without auditioning
nypost.comrevealed to Rolling Stone that the “Dune” actor was able to beat out the likes of Donald Glover, Ezra Miller and Ryan Gosling for the role of the famed chocolatier Willy Wonka — without auditioning — on the strength of a few YouTube clips of an all-singing, all-dancing young Chalamet.
NYC native Chalamet attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, graduating in 2013.King was surprised by “how good he was,” realizing he’d found the right whimsical fit for the “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” prequel musical.“It was a straight offer because he’s great and he was the only person in my mind who could do it,” King said. “But because he’s Timothée Chalamet and his life is so absurd, his high school musical performances are on YouTube and have hundreds of thousands of views.
So I knew from stanning for Timmy Chalamet that he could sing and dance really well.”“When I spoke to him he was quite keen.
He’d done tap dancing in high school and he was like, ‘I’d quite like to show people I can do that,'” King said. The film, set to be released in December, borrows from author Roald Dahl’s chocolate-covered world to tell an imagined story-before-the-story..
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