" I could eat up an entire sleeve of jaffa cake "
The highly anticipated prequel to the British classicCharlie and The Chocolate Factoryis almost here!
WONKA is here to feed our dying imaginations with music, joy and an incredibly stacked cast.Timothée Chalamet,Hugh Grant,Olivia Colman…the list is endless.
We sat down with one of the funniest in the game Keegan-Michael Key to discuss his role as the chocolate addicted chief of police and joining the prequel to the beloved classic
Over the retiring four geezerhood , you ’ve been part of 11 flick , and your work rate is unbelievable . Within these cinema , you ’ve been part ofTheSuper MarioBros . Movie , Lion Kingand nowWonka ! Are you ever neural about attach yourself to giant franchises with already dedicated fans ?
No , I do n’t have any savvy about that . I think that a lot of it is about foot a task that you want to work on , and I think in all of these cases that you ’ve just mentioned it was based on the gift that you ’re going to work with . Then you might like a particular production graphic designer or somebody who ’s doing the wardrobe or the cinematographer . So it ’s always about the workplace . It just happens to be that there are these magnanimous dealership bind to that .
What was it aboutWonkathat compelled you to get together the project?|
“I could eat an entire sleeve of jaffa cakes”
Paul King . I ’ve been such an admirer of his body of work and I really want to do something with him . Since our first get together , even before our first merging , I wanted to work with him from way back toThe Mighty Boosh . He always has his manpower on thing that are really special . ThePaddingtonmovies are extra . I reckon " God , if I have an option to work with Paul King , then I ’m gon na take it " I ’m also a devotee of Timothée Chalamet and to see Timothée in this , it ’s a big departure from the kind of workplace that he usually does . I wanted to be part of that too .
I like that you mentionedPaddington , as people were always go to equate the two plastic film . Did you think it was something you had to live up to ?
I think hoi polloi will cerebrate , and I conceive when I first discover about the project and was lucky enough to be asked to be part of it , that this is the perfect affair in Paul ’s oeuvre . It would n’t be that there was a comparison toPaddingtonbut it would be that this is perfect for him . It ’s got that heartfelt belief , that intoxicate impression , and that ’s Paul ’s pilothouse .
You ’re agnise as a comic , and a fantastic one at that , how do you ensure that your particular comedic style always shine through with the varied regalia of character you take on ?
I conceive part of the quality or part of whatever that quality is that ’s different from me to other people is that I ’m an actor first before I ’m anything else , that ’s what my training is in . For me , at the pedestal , it ’s always about playing the billet as seriously as I can and then tot comedic present moment . The base is always about playing the state of affairs as truthfully as I can as if I were in a drama . It ’s also seeking out good committal to writing because then if you could just play the penning , you ’ll get the laugh as opposed to accept to endeavor to manufacture jape because once you judge to construct laps that ’s there in Lie death .
Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryis a British classic as we all know , was there any considerateness of doing a British accent ?
I did think originally that maybe I would be doing a British accent . When I adjoin with Paul , we talked about that for a little piece and I said , I am more than happy to do a British accent and he said , " No , I want him to voice like a cop , like a cop from like Boston or New York or something like that " So we stop up going in that direction .
Ahh because I translate you ’re a Liverpool FC sports fan , so I guess you might have seek to do a lobscuse stress .
Oh no , I ca n’t do the scouser , I wish I could I have to work on it more , but yes I am a Liverpool fan .
Your character reference has a serious chocolate addiction in the film , is there a sweet treat you could relate to ? What is a snack you just can not flex down ?
It ’s suspicious when I ’m here in England I could exhaust an integral arm of Jaffa Cakes . I LOVE Jaffa Cakes . The unspoilt thing is I ca n’t get them in the States .
If you ever bump into Keegan-Michael Key make sure you have Jaffa Cakes at ready! Wonka is out 8th December in cinemas!
