Josh O’Connor is presently starring in Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers and lately revealed what character he would like to play sooner or later.
In a latest interview, the actor stated he’s open to giving prefer to a “darkish” model of the Willy Wonka character from Roal Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing unit.
“I’d like to play Willy Wonka,” O’Connor stated in an interview with WSJ Journal. “However like a darkish Willy Wonka.”
O’Connor acknowledged that Timothée Chalamet starred in Wonka, an origin story to the Willy Wonka character, lately.
“However I would like to play a narrative of darker model 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 Manufacturing unit “could be very darkish.”
“It’s not darkish in a sinister manner. I feel he’s a very indignant man,” he stated. “These youngsters win a contest to go across the chocolate manufacturing unit they usually all seemingly disappear. I imply, it’s type of mad and darkish. So I feel they’re simply taking part in the reality of it.”
Other than 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 Manufacturing unit remake.
O’Connor is thought for his roles in 2020’s Emma, Peaky Blinders, and The Crown, collection through 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.