Wonka director Paul King thinks Timothée Chalamet is "a bit of a genius" – and reveals he had the actor in mind for the role before the ink was dry on the script.
"There’s little moments where we want to go: this is like a companion piece. "We can just about see how this person grows into an older Gene Wilder," King tells SFX magazine in the new issue, which features Doctor Who on the cover. "But equally, I think Timmy is such an original thinker and an actor himself, in a way you have to let that go and build your own thing. And luckily, he’s a bit of a genius. So he built something rather special."
