Josh O’Connor is at present starring in Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers and not too long ago revealed what character he would like to play sooner or later.
In a current interview, the actor mentioned he’s open to giving wish to a “darkish” model of the Willy Wonka character from Roal Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility.
“I might like to play Willy Wonka,” O’Connor mentioned 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, not too long ago.
“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 facility “may be very darkish.”
“It’s not darkish in a sinister manner. I believe he’s a extremely offended man,” he mentioned. “These youngsters win a contest to go across the chocolate manufacturing facility and so they all seemingly disappear. I imply, it’s type of mad and darkish. So I believe they’re simply taking part in the reality of it.”
Aside from 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 facility remake.
O’Connor is thought for his roles in 2020’s Emma, Peaky Blinders, and The Crown, sequence during which he received 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.
