WONKA (2023) Behind-the-scenes Welcome to Wonka Land

Wonka “Welcome to Wonka Land” Featurette
Directed by Paul King and starring Timothée Chalamet, Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Mathew Baynton, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Jim Carter, Olivia Colman, Hugh Grant….

Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl’s most iconic children’s book and one of the best-selling children’s books of all time, “Wonka” tells the wondrous story of how the world’s greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today.

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I grew up loving Ral Dal he was really the great writer of my childhood and the first thing I read of his was uh Charlie in the Chocolate Factory and I had this old paperback and I read it and I read it and I read it and I must have read it

Dozens of times cuz I remember the pages all came out of the book we all knew those stories I remember the illustrations as something about the worlds that he creates and the way that he writes just absolutely visual to take on a character as iconic

As as this one that’s r in culture like this outside the bounds of roll doll’s original material that was a great Guiding Light it’s a fabulous world for a fabulous Story full of colorful buildings and looming spires and golden domes all sprinkled with a dusting of fairy tale

Snow we’ve been incredibly fortunate to partner with amazingly talented artists is working behind the camera Nathan Crowley is our production designer and he’s created a vibrant and vital World from chocolate shops to wash houses to building an entire town center and Galleria not only Nathan but Lee haml

Who our set decorator and their whole teams together really made this Rich World Nathan called me about a Wonka and the timing was perfect so it aligned it was really good to work with someone like Lee we’re working from different ends and we’re coming to the middle so

That was great I felt like it was a really strong team because of it the city we’ve created for the movie is a sort of wonderful fairy tale City somewhere in the middle of Europe there’s something very specific and very general about it at exactly the same

Time it’s almost all of Europe in one city the town itself it’s kind of like the greatest hits of Europe it’s like the best of it’s it takes influences from English French German and swiss architecture but we wanted it to feel as though you couldn’t quite place it within one particular

Country it’s been a real journey to find a Town Square at one point we were going to film in Europe thinking well we could actually go to a real square and it’s more difficult because you got dance numbers and you have to control areas for long periods of time so it worked

Out well that we got to build a big backlog because we got to make it ours as we got further into production and because it’s a musical and the set had to be used by a lot of dancers the set got bigger and bigger and bigger to

Accommodate the action this one is one of the most amazing beautiful worlds you could imagine sometimes when I feel a little bit lower just go for a walk Round everything is like 360 you can walk into it you can have a stroll B it’s phenomenal the job that’s been done

There’s something really awesome about walking into the Town Square and just the sheer scale on display and the Artistry on display the detail it’s the sort of thing only a major Studio picture could really Create this has to be the best chocolate in the world don’t know about that they say that they best comes from a place called the gallery gouret and we have this extraordinary shopping gallery a sort of Cathedral to food and the fine things in life called The Gallery Gourmet it’s very Grand and

It’s very opulent it’s just where the greatest of the great go the gallery Gourmet which is where the three greatest choces on the planet live and do their work that allowed Paul and Nathan Crowley to make the world exactly like the best bits of all that research

And it’s a huge build it’s it’s an absolutely massive undertaking so to have the opportunity to build an interior under a tent that goes into the Backlot for a major scene it’s Willie coming into the Town Square moving into the Galleria and this is his dream and

So to get to continue that in one flow was I just loved it now as you step through the gates of the pet we wanted the audience to feel as though they were entering this amazing arcade of the highest forms of food there’s this brilliant building in

Milan which is sort of the home of fashion and there’s these sort of four big fashion brands all sort of facing each other from the Corner shops and it felt like a really fun sort of playground for our characters that it all looks extremely opulent and nice detail the detail in the shop

Windows and in the cafes every single one is perfect it was like you almost melted with the sort of beauty of it here we are Mr Wonka sweet home so the glory of the town is here and you cross a bridge and you end up at scrubing and bleachers come on in sir

Welcome to scrub it and bleachers the laundry was actually the first set I actually started with on the film I was intrigued by the song scrub scrub and it was so easy for me to pick up just on the lyrics of the song and the beat of the song I almost instantly

Had that set in my head from just reading the script just once and then from that we were able to create the process through the set design so we knew that the Vats had to be here we knew that the mangles had to be there one of the lies is like turn

The big handle on the mangle so I knew I had to find the biggest mangle which I could in order to turn the handle we’ve all been utterly blown away and there’s tons of just Bits of Paper that no one will ever see but they’re all absolutely accurate they’ve all got

Laundry written on them and amounts and stuff every single thing has a purpose and an intention which just makes the set come alive for us as actors yeah I love the laundry I mean the laundry is steamy Gothic there’s a feeling of that sort of sort of slimy

Steamy sort of mechanical people trapped on the sort of working away Elementary and then Willy Wonka enters and sprinkles magic Around for my character you know he walks into St Paul’s Cathedral and he has to pay off a priest and then the confessional is actually an elevator that goes into a vault that’s that opens up that is a chocolate factory underneath the cathedral it’s not just Whimsical it’s like cleverly Whimsical

Nathan actually designed this most incredible set it’s so clever we go through the vault door and there’s the inner tank that they’ve built in there and around that tank is their men’s club the set dressing there is quite subtle we found these Camelback sofas but if

You look at the details of them the leather on them is actually almost like a dark chocolate color and they slightly Ripple almost a bit like chocolate the same as the wing back chairs and they have a bar and they have chocolate Machines so there’s a Grandeur to it the chandelier are these 1930s Art Deco inspired that look like giant jellies I had to have a feeling of a gentleman’s club/ evil air my favorite set I’d say is the Wonka chocolate shop I love it it’s like when you walk in it’s just

Like it’s just like a big bright sun it’s crazy you see all the flowers and River he’s really made it as a as a tribute to his mother so he’s recreated his childhood home in chocolate there are these extraordinary flowers and bees and Creations and it’s something far

More tranquil natural that you might expect from a crazy inventor I suppose when I first read the script I was really overwhelmed by the sentiment that Paul wrote in the few lines which actually describes the interior of the shop and one of them was that it was an enchanted Garden so his chocolate shop was never going to be about presentation it was going to be romantic it was going to be full of color it was going to be fun it was going to be imagination The Chocolate Tree which is the centerpiece of the shop it was like well why don’t

We spin the tree so we put a a Turkish delight road so you can step into this twirling cherry blossom we did a huge amount of R&D finding artificial flowers and Greenery sculpting test painting sugar coating glazing chocolate dipping to find the exact right processes in order to make

Something look edible it has a magical quality to it it’s exactly what I think if I was a kid and I was watching this movie that’s how I would imagine what woly shop would look like the Wonka chocolate shop seeing that was a moment where my my heart went

Into my throat I felt hugely grateful the universe to get to be playing this role and I get to be part of this Story it was just humbling to the idea of what it was like on the Gene Wilder one you know where things look so delicious and when you’re there you take a bite of something you break your two David Heyman set up with the studio that I could go hang out there in the

Shop alone and they lit it which is generous and I got to just hang out there for 4 hours and go over the choreography the the shop is extraordinary enjoy and don’t forget to eat your basket I haven’t been in many movies of this scale before so every day is a jaw

Dropper for me to walk into something that is so thoughtful and carefully drawn it really elevates I think everyone involved you just come and play every day it’s never going to be exactly what’s on the page which is actually really exciting it’s been an absolute joy to make this fantasy World