Josh O’Connor is at the moment starring in Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers and not too long ago revealed what character he would like to play sooner or later.
In a current interview, the actor stated he’s open to giving wish to a “dark” model of the Willy Wonka character from Roal Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
“I would love to play Willy Wonka,” O’Connor stated in an interview with WSJ Magazine. “But like a dark Willy Wonka.”
O’Connor acknowledged that Timothée Chalamet starred in Wonka, an origin story to the Willy Wonka character, not too long ago.
“But I would really like to play a story of darker version of him,” he added.
The Crown actor additionally famous that Gene Wilder’s model of the character from the 1971 movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory “is very dark.”
“It’s not dark in a sinister way. I think he’s a really angry man,” he stated. “These kids win a competition to go around the chocolate factory and they all seemingly disappear. I mean, it’s sort of mad and dark. So I think they’re just playing the truth of it.”
Apart from Wilder and Chalamet giving life to Willy Wonka, Johnny Depp additionally took a flip because the character in Tim Burton’s 2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remake.
O’Connor is understood for his roles in 2020’s Emma, Peaky Blinders, and The Crown, sequence by which he gained on the Golden Globes and Primetime Emmys for portraying Charles, the Prince of Wales.
In Challengers, O’Connor stars as tennis participant Patrick Zweig reverse Zendaya and Mike Faist.