Timothée Chalamet was quoted in a latest interview with People journal saying that his upcoming musical “Wonka” is his mom’s favourite Timothée Chalamet film. It seems that’s not the case. Appearing on “Good Morning America,” the Oscar-nominated actor revealed his mother, Nicole Flender, truly known as him after the People interview ran to be able to appropriate him.
“I assumed this was her favourite film. She known as me yesterday, she corrected me. She mentioned ‘Beautiful Boy’ was her favourite,” Chalamet mentioned. “When she noticed [‘Wonka’], she did say, ‘It’s good to see you smile.’”
Chalamet initially instructed People that “Wonka” is “perhaps her favourite factor I’ve ever been in,” including on the time: “I feel she noticed ‘Bones and All’ and mentioned, ‘You gotta be happier in your films!’ But that is the custom. I come from a musical theater household, and that is extra in line of the sort of film I might’ve thought I’d be doing 10 years in the past, if I used to be fortunate sufficient to work in any respect. This was so enjoyable to work on. This was not like something I’ve ever labored on, I feel.”
“Wonka” stars Chalamet as a younger Willy Wonka earlier than the character turns into a world well-known chocolatier. The prequel movie is a musical focused at household audiences, a far cry from Flender’s most popular Chalamet film “Beautiful Boy.” That 2018 drama stars Chalamet as a younger man whose drug habit strains his relationship along with his father (performed by Steve Carell). Chalamet earned nominations for finest supporting actor on the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards, BAFTA Awards and Critics’ Choice Awards for his work in “Beautiful Boy.”
Chalamet not too long ago admitted to GamesRadar+ that he initially apprehensive “Wonka” is likely to be a “cynical cash seize” given Hollywood studios’ latest pattern of rebooting each little bit of IP it presumably can. Chalamet was supplied the possibility to steer the movie with out having to audition.
“Like many individuals, when there are remakes, I really feel very protecting over the unique character and variations you’re keen on,” Chalamet mentioned. “Your eyebrows go up with skepticism about [whether] it is a respectable, worthwhile story or a cynical cash seize. But I used to be studying the primary three pages of the script, and the music ‘Hat Full of Dreams’ was in there.”
Chalamet’s casting has paid off the for the movie, which has earned robust opinions. Variety chief movie critic Owen Gleiberman says Chalamet makes “a successful Willy Wonka” in a movie that’s a “enjoyable, rousing, impeccably staged, jaw-droppingly old style musical prequel.”
“Wonka” opens December 15 in U.S. theaters from Warner Bros. Watch the actor’s look on “Good Morning America” within the clip under.
