When it emerged that Hollywood was making a prequel to Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, everyone expected an outcry over the casting of the candy king, for who can compete with the memory of Gene Wilder in the 1971 original?
No one foresaw a bigger backlash over who would play an Oompa Loompa. In a comic turn at the end of a trailer for Wonka, the green-haired, orange-skinned little person apparently trapped inside a jar turns out to be Hugh Grant, who usually stands at 5ft 11in tall.
