Sadly, Denise Nickerson, who performed the obsessive gum-chewer Violet Beauregarde in “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Manufacturing unit” — who test-drives Wonka’s new gum and is was a human blueberry consequently — handed away in 2019, making Julie Anne Cole the one residing feminine member of the unique group of kids. Within the movie, Cole performs Veruca Salt, a spoiled and petulant youngster who’s additionally fascinated by the sweet manufacturing facility, however she’s additionally intensely demanding — to the purpose the place it is revealed that her father pressured his personal staff to rifle by means of chocolate bars till they discovered her a golden ticket. In the end, this high quality that causes an enormous downside in a room filled with geese that lay golden chocolate eggs and decide the “good eggs” from the “dangerous eggs.” Veruca desires a goose and calls for that her father buy one, a proposal that Wonka declines; ultimately, the geese activate Veruca herself and resolve she’s a “dangerous egg,” sending her and her mother and father alike down the manufacturing facility’s rubbish chute. (Within the ebook and different diversifications, the animals in query aren’t geese however squirrels, sorting the “good nuts” and “dangerous nuts.”)
In contrast to lots of the different younger actors in “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Manufacturing unit,” Cole continued working within the business after taking part in Veruca for years; instantly afterwards, she booked a task on the British sitcom “…And Mom Makes Three.” All through the years, Cole has appeared in tasks like “The Mill on the Floss” and “EastEnders,” and in 2016 she launched a memoir about taking part in Veruca, appropriately titled “I Need It Now!”