Timothée Chalamet's old YouTube videos were his golden ticket to booking the role of Willy Wonka in "Wonka."
"Wonka" director Paul King revealed this week in an interview with Rolling Stone that the 27-year-old actor was his first choice to play the eccentric confectioner. The filmmaker said he was drawn to Chalamet in part because of old footage he had seen online of the "Call Me by Your Name" and "Dune" star performing in school productions.
"It was a straight offer because he's great and he was the only person in my mind who could do it," King told Rolling Stone.
