Timothée Chalamet Was Offered ‘Wonka’ Role Based On YouTube Videos Of His High School Musical Performances

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Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet are still dating, ET has learned, despite false reports that the couple had broken up. Chalamet and Jenner first sparked a romance in April, when a source told ET the couple was enjoying each other's company. «They are keeping things casual at this point,» the source said at the time.

appears to reference the alleged couple in his new song “Meltdown,” which was released on July 28. For a smidge of context, Scott and Jenner have and share two children: five-year-old and one-year-old . However, just a few months after their in December 2022, the Internet that the 25-year-old reality star moved on with 27-year-old Oscar nominee, .

Travis Scott is seemingly rapping about in his new song, «Meltdown.»The 32-year-old rapper released the new song on Friday, spitting the lyrics, «Chocolate AP and chocolate the Vs got the Willy Wonka factory/ Burn an athlete like it's calories/ find another flame hot as me, b**ch!!!»AP is short for Audemars Piguet, a luxury watch brand favored by rappers. Fans think that this is a clear reference to Kylie Jenner's rumored new romance with actor Timothée Chalamet.

Travis Scott fans have been speculating that the rapper has dissed actor Timothée Chalamet on his song ‘Meltdown’.Scott finally released his long-awaited album ‘Utopia’ today (July 28) following 2018’s ‘Astroworld’. ‘Meltdown’, the seventh song of the LP that features Drake, has gained attention on social media after fans started to speculate that Scott, also known as La Flame, may have dissed the actor.At the end of the song’s second verse, La Flame makes reference to Willy Wonka, a character Chalamet portrays in the upcoming film Wonka.“Wrappin’ the cheese, wrap around me ’cause I’ve got property (Wrap, cheese, wrap) / Chocolate AP and chocolate the Vs (Vs), got the Willy Wonka factory (Vs) / Burn an athlete like it’s calories, find another flame hot as me, bitch,” he raps.Upon the album’s release, fans took to Twitter to share their opinions about the track.”Never in my life would I’ve thought to witness Travis Scott dissing Timothee Chalamet,” shared one user.Another added: “Fuck Willy Wonka none of my homies are going to see Willy Wonka.”Fans believe the rapper dissed the actor due to Chalamet being reality TV star Kylie Jenner’s rumoured boyfriend.

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Wonka, it has been revealed.The prequel movie, which will be released in cinemas on December 15, sees Chalamet play the title character.A first trailer for Wonka was released earlier this week, giving fans their first proper glimpse at Chalamet’s singing and dancing young chocolatier, and director and co-writer Paul King has now shared a bit more information regarding the film’s set.In a scene previewed in the trailer, Wonka and his friend Noodle (Calah Lane) find themselves in a sea of chocolate, and King explained to PEOPLE how they shot the scene.“We actually made an enormous vat of hot chocolate — not scalding, just warm hot chocolate for them to immerse themselves in,” he said. “So there was a lot of chocolate around.”King then praised the film’s “incredible” on-set chocolatier, saying: “She made these incredible concoctions, and we would taste them.“They tasted much better than they needed to, because obviously actors are good at pretending things, but the miracle was they tasted every bit as good as they looked.”A synopsis of Wonka reads: “Starring Timothée Chalamet in the title role, this irresistibly vivid and inventive big screen spectacle will introduce audiences to a young Willy Wonka, chock-full of ideas and determined to the change the world one delectable bite at a time – proving that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible.”Alongside Chalamet, the star-studded cast includes Keegan-Michael Key, Rowan Atkinson, Sally Hawkins, Olivia Colman, Hugh Grant (as an Oompa-Loompa), Jim Carter and Matt Lucas.King also recently revealed that Chalamet didn’t have to audition for his leading role in the film.

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a reporter for Rolling Stone asked him about being featured on New York Magazine’s infamous nepo baby cover from December.“You were on the cover of New York Magazine’s Nepo Baby Issue. I’m curious what was your response to that? And what do you make of that whole discourse?” journalist EJ Dickson asked.“We’re going to skip right over that if we can,” Platt responded.

Wonka, director Paul King has revealed.Speaking to Rolling Stone, King said that Chalamet was offered the part because he already knew he could sing and dance, after seeing several videos of the actor performing onstage as a student at New York City’s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art.“It was a straight offer because he’s great, and he was the only person in my mind who could do it,” King said.There a number of clips of Chalamet singing online, but it’s his rapping alter ego, Lil Timmy Tim, that really caught the world’s attention after one of his songs ‘Statistics’ was shown on the Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2017.

Timothee Chalamet is set to bring the famous candy maker Willy Wonka to life in the upcoming musical Wonka. However, he didn’t even have to audition for the part.

revealed to Rolling Stone that the “Dune” actor was able to beat out the likes of Donald Glover, Ezra Miller and Ryan Gosling for the role of the famed chocolatier Willy Wonka — without auditioning — on the strength of a few YouTube clips of an all-singing, all-dancing young Chalamet. NYC native Chalamet attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, graduating in 2013.King was surprised by “how good he was,” realizing he’d found the right whimsical fit for the “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” prequel musical.“It was a straight offer because he’s great and he was the only person in my mind who could do it,” King said.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Despite reports over the years that Warner Bros. was courting the likes of Donald Glover, Ezra Miller and Ryan Gosling to play Willy Wonka, it was only Timothée Chalamet who got the offer to lead director Paul King’s prequel musical “Wonka.” And Chalamet didn’t even have to audition. King recently told Rolling Stone that he was a Chalamet “stan” and thus knew the actor had the singing and dancing chops required to play Wonka. “It was a straight offer because he’s great and he was the only person in my mind who could do it,” King said. “But because he’s Timothée Chalamet and his life is so absurd, his high school musical performances are on YouTube and have hundreds of thousands of views. So I knew from stanning for Timmy Chalamet that he could sing and dance really well.”

In the much-anticipated musical prequel titled Wonka, Timothée Chalamet takes on the role of the eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka – but he's overshadowed by a late arrival in the short clip. The trailer for the latest adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic tale was released on Wednesday and showcases a star-studded cast including Olivia Colman, Rowan Atkinson, Keegan-Michael Key, Matt Baynton, and Matt Lucas.

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