Name Timothée Chalamet by this title: a triple risk.
Director Paul King lately revealed that the Dune actor did not must audition to land the starring position of Willy Wonka in upcoming musical movie Wonka, which traces the backstory of the chocolate mogul. In actual fact, King revealed Chalamet’s golden ticket stemmed from his singing and dancing skills.
“It was a straight provide as a result of he is nice and he was the one individual in my thoughts who may do it,” King instructed Rolling Stone in an interview printed 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 bunch of 1000’s of views.”
The performances in query? Movies of the then-teenage King star belting out songs from Candy Charity throughout a efficiency at his Fiorello H. LaGuardia Excessive College.
“So I knew from stanning for Timmy Chalamet that he may sing and dance rather well,” King added. “And I knew that was in his arsenal, however I did not understand how good he was. Once I spoke to him he was fairly eager.”
