Timothée Chalamet has driven fans wild after sharing a sneak-peek of himself in the role of Willy Wonka.
Sharing the pictures with his millions of fans on Twitter and Instagram, the Call Me By Your Name actor posted the snaps along with a famous Wonka quote: “The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last”.
The 25-year-old was dressed in a maroon velvet jacket, a multi-coloured geometric scarf, and the Roald Dahl character’s trademark chocolate-brown top hat. He also shared a picture of a cane that unfurls at the top to reveal a tiny wrapped gift inside.
Chalamet will play a young Wonka in a prequel based around the idiosyncratic chocolatier’s early life.
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Fans of both Chalamet and Wonka were ecstatic to get a first look at the actor in costume:
Timothée Chalamet as Willy Wonka.
— Cinema is the answer to everything.🕊 ⊃∪∩⪽ (@_amantedelcine_) October 10, 2021
Perfect casting if you ask me. pic.twitter.com/DD026LUU7h
timothée chalamet as willy wonka is my new favorite thing pic.twitter.com/uqZRqRHRUh
— aurs ⎊ ceo of tom holland -67 (@starkerwiitch) October 10, 2021
— Slayvid Opie 🎃 (@DavidOpie) October 10, 2021
🍫🍫🍫 I would like 1 (one) golden ticket please
— karl :) (@KarlJacobs_) October 11, 2021
trying my best to calm down after this pic.twitter.com/nQSp6HqCBm
— sophia (@h0neyjuyeon) October 10, 2021
Some fans shared their favourite Wonka-themed TikToks, jokes and memes:
timothee chalamet rn: pic.twitter.com/mBoD9fhbHz
— nini ✿ (@wolfstarburst) October 10, 2021
timothee chalamet willy wonka is what happens when a hollywood focus group tries to create a tumblr sexyman. pic.twitter.com/k0Neh1DkwC
— Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (@Hello_Tailor) October 10, 2021
CLIP FROM THE REHEARSALpic.twitter.com/R7IHQo7327
— Wiosna Pustyni (@Atrydka) October 10, 2021
me fighting them little kids for a golden ticket to enter willy wonka’s factory just so i could see timothée chalamet pic.twitter.com/W7PXIyxwpC
— chu (@chuuzus) October 10, 2021
I just do not need the backstory on how Willy Wonka once was in love with a baroness or something but she got run over by a circus camel and he had to spend his life making chocolate and tormenting children instead.
— Jessica Ellis (@baddestmamajama) October 10, 2021
Willy Wonka is so weird. I’ve had chocolate too bro. Not gonna act all weird because of it
— pj evans (@pjayevans) October 10, 2021
In light of Chalamet’s smouldering take on Wonka, some questioned whether or not it was wrong to have a crush on the Dahl character:
i will never ever forgive timothée chalamet for forcing me to find willy wonka sexually attractive. this is my joker origin story.
— shauna (@wednesdaysadums) October 10, 2021
I can’t believe this is a thing that warrants saying but willy wonka should not be a sexual being
— sloane (sîpihkopiyesîs) (@cottoncandaddy) October 10, 2021
the sexification of willy wonka needs to stop.
— Emma 🦷 (@emmalangevin) October 10, 2021
oh jesus now everybody about to be thirsting over willy wonka aGAIN https://t.co/7bNLmz4zq0
— paulˣ (@paulswhtn) October 10, 2021
you’re supposed to look like a crazed diabetes factory owner not a capitalist suit-wearing sexy Englishman
— cherry (@chrissyyhoang) October 11, 2021
#WillyWonka #TimotheeChalamet https://t.co/8eiyvPIO9W
I don’t need a sexy young Willy Wonka movie. Show me a wicked old, retired Wonka, on an unstoppable killing spree in his nursing home. Taking down seniors left and right with poisoned Werthers and booby-trapped pudding cups.
— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) October 11, 2021
His Instagram picture garnered four million likes and thousands of comments, with his Dune co-star Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman writing “absolutely”.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star Kiernan Shipka wrote: “OH MY GOD”.
Pitch Perfect actress Rebel Wilson also left a comment reading: “All about this x”.
One fan said what we’re all thinking, writing: “Someone grab my inhaler I can’t with this man”.
The 2023 film, titled Wonka, will also star Rowan Atkinson, Olivia Colman, Matt Lucas, Keegan Michael-Key, Jim Carter, and Mathew Baynton.
Chalamet follows in the footsteps of Gene Wilder, who played Wonka in the 1971 adaptation of Dahl’s novel, and Johnny Depp, who donned Wonka’s signature hat in Tim Burton’s 2005 adaptation.
The young actor is also starring in another famous book adaptation, taking the starring role as Paul Atreides in Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune which is due to hit theatres on 21 October.
With an Oscar already under his belt and lots of exciting upcoming projects, we’ve a feeling there will be something in Chalamet’s calendar that will prove to be a golden ticket to another Academy Award win.
