{"id":128398,"date":"2024-04-28T23:47:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T23:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/28\/josh-oconnor-says-he-would-love-to-play-a-dark-version-of-willy-wonka\/"},"modified":"2024-04-28T23:47:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T23:47:41","slug":"josh-oconnor-says-he-would-love-to-play-a-dark-version-of-willy-wonka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/28\/josh-oconnor-says-he-would-love-to-play-a-dark-version-of-willy-wonka\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh O&#8217;Connor Says He Would Love To Play A Dark Version Of Willy Wonka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJosh O\u2019Connor is at the moment starring in Luca Guadagnino\u2019s <em>Challengers<\/em> and not too long ago revealed what character he would like to play sooner or later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn a current interview, the actor stated he&#8217;s open to giving wish to a \u201cdark\u201d model of the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/willy-wonka\/\" id=\"auto-tag_willy-wonka\" data-tag=\"willy-wonka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Willy Wonka<\/a> character from Roal Dahl\u2019s <em>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI would love to play Willy Wonka,\u201d O\u2019Connor stated in an interview with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=scz9_COTBd4\" target=\"_blank\">WSJ Magazine<\/a>. \u201cBut like a dark Willy Wonka.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tO\u2019Connor acknowledged that Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet starred in <em>Wonka<\/em>, an origin story to the Willy Wonka character, not too long ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cBut I would really like to play a story of darker version of him,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<em>The Crown<\/em> actor additionally famous that Gene Wilder\u2019s model of the character from the 1971 movie <em>Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory<\/em> \u201cis very dark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s not dark in a sinister way. I think he\u2019s a really angry man,\u201d he stated. \u201cThese kids win a competition to go around the chocolate factory and they all seemingly disappear. I mean, it\u2019s sort of mad and dark. So I think they\u2019re just playing the truth of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tApart from Wilder and Chalamet giving life to Willy Wonka, Johnny Depp additionally took a flip because the character in Tim Burton\u2019s 2005 <em>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/em> remake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tO\u2019Connor is understood for his roles in 2020\u2019s <em>Emma<\/em>, <em>Peaky Blinders<\/em>, and <em>The Crown<\/em>, sequence by which he gained on the Golden Globes and Primetime Emmys for portraying Charles, the Prince of Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn <em>Challengers<\/em>, O\u2019Connor stars as tennis participant Patrick Zweig reverse Zendaya and Mike Faist.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Josh O\u2019Connor is at the moment starring in Luca Guadagnino\u2019s 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&#8217;s open to giving wish to a \u201cdark\u201d model of the Willy Wonka character from Roal Dahl\u2019s Charlie and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[422,1938,406,1939,273,1940,1941,1942],"class_list":{"0":"post-128398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dark","9":"tag-josh","10":"tag-love","11":"tag-oconnor","12":"tag-play","13":"tag-version","14":"tag-willy","15":"tag-wonka"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}