Josh O’Connor has his sights set on his dream role: playing a “darker version” of Willy Wonka.
Much like his “Challengers” co-star and “West Side Story” alum Mike Faist, O’Connor is looking to lean into the musical theater elements of the famed fictional chocolatier. Timothée Chalamet most recently played the Roald Dahl character in “Wonka,” with Johnny Depp and Gene Wilder leading other iterations of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
In a recent WSJ Magazine video, O’Connor revealed that Wonka is his ideal part.
“I would love to play Willy Wonka, but like a dark Willy Wonka,” he said. “I know they’ve just made a ‘Wonka’ film with Timothée Chalamet, but I would really like to play a story of darker version of him.”
According to O’Connor, the original portrayal of the character by actor Wilder is a haunting performance.
“I think Gene Wilder’s version of him is very dark.
Much like his “Challengers” co-star and “West Side Story” alum Mike Faist, O’Connor is looking to lean into the musical theater elements of the famed fictional chocolatier. Timothée Chalamet most recently played the Roald Dahl character in “Wonka,” with Johnny Depp and Gene Wilder leading other iterations of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
In a recent WSJ Magazine video, O’Connor revealed that Wonka is his ideal part.
“I would love to play Willy Wonka, but like a dark Willy Wonka,” he said. “I know they’ve just made a ‘Wonka’ film with Timothée Chalamet, but I would really like to play a story of darker version of him.”
According to O’Connor, the original portrayal of the character by actor Wilder is a haunting performance.
“I think Gene Wilder’s version of him is very dark.
- 4/29/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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- 4/10/2024
- MUBI
Sydney, Paris, now Rome: Luca Guadagnino’s match moved to the Italian capital on Monday as the highly anticipated Warner Bros. film Challengers continued its world tour.
A film about love, relationships and tennis starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, the feature is the eighth film from the director of Call Me by Your Name and Bones and All. It was presented for its Roman premiere in the setting of Piazza Barberini, behind the Via Veneto that gave birth to La Dolce Vita.
Challengers follows the story of the young tennis hopeful Tashi Duncan (Zendaya) at the center a love triangle with two friends and fellow athletes, Art (Faist) and Patrick (O’Connor). Due to a serious knee injury, Tashi has to give up her career and become Art’s coach, and the pair have since gotten married. After a series of winning matches, she wants to enroll Art in the Challenger Tour,...
A film about love, relationships and tennis starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, the feature is the eighth film from the director of Call Me by Your Name and Bones and All. It was presented for its Roman premiere in the setting of Piazza Barberini, behind the Via Veneto that gave birth to La Dolce Vita.
Challengers follows the story of the young tennis hopeful Tashi Duncan (Zendaya) at the center a love triangle with two friends and fellow athletes, Art (Faist) and Patrick (O’Connor). Due to a serious knee injury, Tashi has to give up her career and become Art’s coach, and the pair have since gotten married. After a series of winning matches, she wants to enroll Art in the Challenger Tour,...
- 4/8/2024
- by Martina Barone
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Is this a dream come true for cinephiles? Deadline reports that French actress Léa Seydoux has officially joined the cast of Luca Guadagnino‘s upcoming queer romance “Separate Rooms.” It’ll be the first time the actress and the Italian director work together, although Seydoux’s role in the film remains unknown currently.
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- 4/4/2024
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Updated April 3, 2024: Léa Seydoux has officially joined the cast of Luca Guadagnino’s “Separate Rooms” alongside Josh O’Connor. The queer-romance film involves a love triangle between O’Connor’s character Leo, his ill-fated lover Thomas, and a woman. Deadline first reported the news. “The Beast” star Seydoux recently appeared in “Dune: Part Two” and will join the central three-hander.
Published March 25, 2024: Luca Guadagnino is set to team up once more with “Challengers” actor Josh O’Connor for his upcoming feature “Separate Rooms,” according to a report in Variety.
The film is a queer drama adapted from the novel of the same name by late author Pier Vittorio Tondelli. O’Connor would play the lead role Leo, an Italian writer who is mourning the death of his musician boyfriend Thomas. Variety first reported the news and claimed that O’Connor has been studying Italian for the role.
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Published March 25, 2024: Luca Guadagnino is set to team up once more with “Challengers” actor Josh O’Connor for his upcoming feature “Separate Rooms,” according to a report in Variety.
The film is a queer drama adapted from the novel of the same name by late author Pier Vittorio Tondelli. O’Connor would play the lead role Leo, an Italian writer who is mourning the death of his musician boyfriend Thomas. Variety first reported the news and claimed that O’Connor has been studying Italian for the role.
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- 4/3/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Léa Seydoux (Dune: Part Two) is attached to star opposite Josh O’Connor (Challengers) in Separate Rooms, an upcoming film from Luca Guadagnino, multiple sources tell Deadline.
An adaptation of the 1989 novel by the late author Pier Vittorio Tondelli, the film is a non-chronological examination of the romance between the Italian iconoclast writer, Leo (O’Connor), and his translator, Thomas. Details as to the role Seydoux is playing haven’t been disclosed.
The script comes from Francesca Manieri, who collaborated with Guadagnino on his Sky/HBO series We Are Who We Are. Lorenzo Mieli will produce for Fremantle, following his work with Guadagnino on his cannibal romance Bones and All, starring Timothée Chalamet, which won Guadagnino the prize for Best Director at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.
Best known for starring in the Bond films Spectre and No Time to Die, as well as Abdellatif Kechiche’s Palme d’Or winner Blue Is the Warmest Color,...
An adaptation of the 1989 novel by the late author Pier Vittorio Tondelli, the film is a non-chronological examination of the romance between the Italian iconoclast writer, Leo (O’Connor), and his translator, Thomas. Details as to the role Seydoux is playing haven’t been disclosed.
The script comes from Francesca Manieri, who collaborated with Guadagnino on his Sky/HBO series We Are Who We Are. Lorenzo Mieli will produce for Fremantle, following his work with Guadagnino on his cannibal romance Bones and All, starring Timothée Chalamet, which won Guadagnino the prize for Best Director at the 2022 Venice Film Festival.
Best known for starring in the Bond films Spectre and No Time to Die, as well as Abdellatif Kechiche’s Palme d’Or winner Blue Is the Warmest Color,...
- 4/3/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
El actor de ‘The Crown’ vuelve a trabajar con el aclamado director después de ‘Challengers’.
Según Variety, Josh O’Connor, protagonista de la próxima película de Guadagnino sobre un triángulo amoroso en el tenis, “Challengers”, junto a Zendaya y Mike Faist, está en conversaciones para protagonizar el nuevo drama de Luca Guadagnino, “Separate Rooms”, una adaptación de la novela homónima del escritor italiano Pier Vittorio Tondelli. La historia sigue a un escritor italiano llamado Leo que llora la pérdida de su novio.
O’Connor interpretaría a Leo, cuyo apasionado romance con un tímido músico alemán llamado Thomas está marcado por diferentes formas de separación. Leo, treintañero, viaja por Milán, París, Londres y Florencia, mientras que Thomas es un joven pianista afincado en Berlín que vive temporalmente en París cuando se cruza por primera vez con Leo. Tras conocerse en París, los amantes inician un largo romance, encontrándose y viajando juntos por...
Según Variety, Josh O’Connor, protagonista de la próxima película de Guadagnino sobre un triángulo amoroso en el tenis, “Challengers”, junto a Zendaya y Mike Faist, está en conversaciones para protagonizar el nuevo drama de Luca Guadagnino, “Separate Rooms”, una adaptación de la novela homónima del escritor italiano Pier Vittorio Tondelli. La historia sigue a un escritor italiano llamado Leo que llora la pérdida de su novio.
O’Connor interpretaría a Leo, cuyo apasionado romance con un tímido músico alemán llamado Thomas está marcado por diferentes formas de separación. Leo, treintañero, viaja por Milán, París, Londres y Florencia, mientras que Thomas es un joven pianista afincado en Berlín que vive temporalmente en París cuando se cruza por primera vez con Leo. Tras conocerse en París, los amantes inician un largo romance, encontrándose y viajando juntos por...
- 3/27/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
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