Playing a singing, dancing chocolatier in the new film Wonka — the latest adaptation of the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl — was no cakewalk for Timothée Chalamet.
“This was the most physically challenging project I’ve ever done,” the Oscar-nominated actor told Vanity Fair ahead Wonka’s December 15 theatrical release.
“I can’t say the singing and dancing comes easy. I’ve been around musical theater my whole life, and danced a little bit in high school, but this was on a different level. It’s different doing it on film. You’ve got to keep being in the center of the frame while dancing, you’ve got to rehearse for months, you’ve got to be on for every take…”
The strenuous shoot seems to have paid off, though. Critics are sweet on the musical origin story, which was directed by Paul King and written by King and Simon Barnaby. Empire’s Ian Freer, for example, calls Wonka “a beguiling way to spend 116 minutes, perfectly anchored by Chalamet’s benevolent dandy.”
Wonka is expected to earn between $30-$40 million at the box office this weekend.
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The Chalamet Defense Squad is ready to defend their favorite tinseltown twink.
For fans of the 27-year-old Chalamet — our “straight prince of twinks — Wonka is a 116-minute opportunity to see the man’s face light up the big screen. (Maybe even a screen several stories tall, if you opt for an IMAX screening.)
On X — the social platform previously called Twitter — Chalamaniacs have been posting thirst tweets, including some X-rated propositions. And on Instagram, the actor’s artistic admirers have been showing off their Timothée tributes.
Here’s a selection of the social-media hype.
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ChatGPT isn’t as raunchy as the Grindr grid at 3 AM, but this was certainly enough to flag the service’s content filters.
Terrycloth
Next movie role Timothee plays Bob Dylan..Tmmy is dual citizen of the US and France .never lived there but his father is French..Tmothee speaks fluent French. he becomes a completely different person when he speaks it.
Kangol2
Everyone doesn’t thirst for him, Queerty.
Or for yet another remake/adaptation of Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, for that matter.
KissBananaPeels
There is NOTHING sexy about a REALLY skinny white boy….he is JUST not that damn HOT…attractive sure I will never say NO to that…
barryaksarben
hey some of us do so stfu. You dont need to comment at all. If im not interested in someone I dont feel the need to. attack. but then Im secure and know Im wanted and try to support all other sexual outlaws.
bachy
Queerty, you’ve got to add an article about the Chalamet impersonator who blew Timothee’s mind with his Voguing moves!!
youtube.com/watch?v=0GvKuyoT4c4
FreddieW
Well, sorry. I like him, but he’s no James Franco.
KissBananaPeels
Who does not like a sexual predator…but as long as he is white…
FreddieW
I have a solution to #MeToo cancellations. I ignore them.
And your problems with race are your problems, not mine.
FreddieW
I also don’t participate in the nonsense of filtering physical attraction by political correctness.
If someone is good-looking, he’s good-looking. He may be a pariah to all the man-hating females in the USA, but it has little bearing on what I think of his career and looks.
KissBananaPeels
@FreddieW because you are an internet Ahole that supports a predator…
FreddieW
@KissBananaPeels
We have the same opinion of each other.
dbmcvey
Oh look, here’s banana again to make sure no one has any fun.
wikidBSTN
I’ve always found his looks to be very mercurial. Sometimes he looks horrible. Other times, he is absolutely Grade-A exquisite. It depends on what he is doing/wearing and how the camera catches him. I think it is a great quality for an actor to posses. Almost chameleon-like. And he – and those who cast him – should exploit that to the maximum.
still_onthemark
Yikes, some of those tweets (xeets?) are unhinged.
Man About Town
How does this Josh guy know he’s hung?