Hollywood superstar Timothée Chalamet has legions of stans who follow the actor's every move, but is his Wonka director Paul King one of them? It appears so, given that the filmmaker (Paddington, Paddington 2) has admitted to closely watching the young performer's career over the years. Chalamet's big break, of course, was Call Me By Your Name, for which he was a 2018 Oscar nominee for Best Actor (the third youngest man to ever do it), but King revealed he even watched old high school videos of the actor when he was a mere student at New York City's prestigious LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.
Seeing as how King's Willy Wonka prequel will feature plenty of singing and dancing from Chalamet and the rest of the Wonka cast — you got a sneak peek of that when he broke out into the Oompa Loompa Song at the movie's Tokyo premiere — the director had to make sure that the actor was up for the musical task.
