One thing Melissa Nathoo discovered when she sat down to talk all things Wonka is that Tom Davis can't say Timothée Chalamet's name and Olivia Colman won't correct him! Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Guys, it is one... Don't worry. Don't ever have to apologise. That's okay.
00:05 It's always a joy, Olivia, to see you and Tom, wonderful to meet you.
00:09 Thank you.
00:10 For a film that is pure escapism.
00:12 Aren't you two just two delightful characters in here?
00:15 - Yes. - Sorry, I am going to sit up again.
00:17 That's okay. I don't mind.
00:19 - I like this. - We can just see the top of your newly blonde hair.
00:22 - The blonde hair is incredible, by the way. - Yeah, do you like it?
00:24 Love the hair. And enough of Tom's done with your beard.
00:27 - Thank you. - It's nice, eh?
00:29 No, the barbeque is incredible. Shout out, Jonathan.
00:32 Tom, how much fun was it for you prancing around with your legs out in this film?
00:38 There was a lot of work that went into those lederhosen.
00:40 They were specially made and there was a lot of work trying to stay in them.
00:44 - I can still see it when I close my eyes. - Yeah.
00:48 It's a bit of a weird thing because you're sort of...
00:51 I mean, I guess in a sense you're sort of like,
00:54 "I don't want this to look too hot. I don't want people to walk out like..."
00:58 - Did you think that? - Yeah.
01:00 You were pretty hot to resist, to be fair.
01:03 I knew that I wasn't going to be the hot...
01:06 - You looked beautiful. - Yeah.
01:08 - When someone asks for a bucket on set... - There will be a calendar made for you.
01:11 I'll go to St. Louis with that moustache.
01:14 Do you know what the worst bit is?
01:16 Because when you're doing something like this, you're filming those bits for quite a while.
01:19 Obviously, for longer than it looks on film.
01:21 Slowly, as we sort of commence, the lederhosen started falling apart bit by bit.
01:25 They sort of like... I don't think the lederhosens were ready for the job.
01:29 Poor Olivia having to see it all.
01:32 You lost another bit, Tom.
01:34 That's the worst bit, Tom.
01:37 Olivia, how much fun is it?
01:39 Because you, from playing queens to everything in between,
01:42 right to someone who's probably one of the worst of humanity,
01:45 you just kill it every time.
01:47 But how much fun is it to play a character like this, who is so horrible?
01:51 It's the most fun. Playing a baddie is the most fun.
01:55 And just... It's so nice to have a baddie partner as well.
01:59 - Because we just giggled. - Yeah, it was a lot of fun.
02:01 - The whole time. - And what's lovely is seeing Olivia do that.
02:04 Just going from sitting... I mean, look, it was an amazing...
02:08 We chatted literally from the moment we both landed.
02:11 We're in quite extensive make-up. Probably you more than me.
02:14 The worst actually... The only one of the worst bits of that, right,
02:17 is I'm having a visit right now, because there's a point where someone...
02:20 "Oh, you've got your teeth in." And I was like, "No, I haven't."
02:23 - And I have the grossest teeth ever. - Oh, no!
02:26 - And from there, I was going... - Oh, no, they gave you a point.
02:29 - Oh, no! - But what's great...
02:31 I have got a story like that.
02:33 But I'm going to do a massive name drop.
02:35 - I have said the story before, but Meryl Streep. - Oh, really?
02:38 On The Iron Lady. So they all had these English teeth, her and Jim Broadbent.
02:42 And she went, "Look at her funny English teeth."
02:45 "I don't have fake teeth."
02:48 - Mine were grotesque, as well. - They were. We're missing a chunk.
02:51 - You've both got a lovely smile today. - Thank you very much.
02:54 - It's brightening up my day. - Thank you.
02:56 - She's good, isn't she? - Yes, she's very good.
02:58 Now that you have both worked with Timothy, do you get the hype around him?
03:03 Totally. I did anyway, beforehand.
03:05 - Yeah, I think Call Me By My Name and... - Oh, God, that was so beautiful.
03:09 But you know the thing, actually, weirdly, is that
03:12 it's just what a down-to-earth young man he is.
03:15 Genuinely, for me, it was sort of...
03:18 You're doing my scenes with Olivia and Timothy,
03:21 and it actually was just so much fun.
03:23 It was such a collaborative, silly mess-about.
03:25 And Timothy really was a big part of that.
03:28 - But it's just a simple thing. - And a hell of a role.
03:31 - Yeah. - Because he's carrying the film.
03:34 But he had time for everyone. He's so gentle, he's funny, he's self-deprecating.
03:39 He was everything you'd want him to be. He was just gorgeous.
03:42 - We were horrible to him. - Yeah, we were.
03:45 Without being negative about it, because I don't like to be like that,
03:48 the only real diva on set was the dog.
03:50 It was awful to work with.
03:52 - His heart wasn't in it. - No.
03:54 There was a scene with Olivia, me and Timothy,
03:57 and he just started barking, and then he took a poo on the floor
04:00 and just walked off the set.
04:02 - And I was like, "Wow, this is..." - A proper dirty poo.
04:05 - He kept going, "I need a poo!" - And no-one was listening to him.
04:08 Someone came up to me and said...
04:10 He was on the call sheet above me, by the way.
04:13 You're OK in there, Tom. It's OK.
04:15 Someone came up to me and was like, "Are you all right to..."
04:18 - Pick up the poo? - Yeah.
04:20 "No, no, are you all right to..."
04:23 Tom, get that with Gerdya, lady.
04:26 "Pick up that poo, would you, mate?"
04:28 I had to have sausages in my pockets and feed him.
04:31 It's not bad enough you've got to remember lines.
04:33 You're doing scenes with these two amazing actors.
04:36 You've then got to halfway through get a sausage out and go to the dog.
04:39 - Incredible, hulking beast. - They did that because you broke the chocolate river.
04:43 - That's why. - It was the marshmallow bridge.
04:45 - I put this wrong. - He's been saying the chocolate river.
04:48 It was a much more expensive and delicate marshmallow bridge.
04:51 It's like he'd forgotten that he's twice the size of normal humans.
04:54 Yeah, and four times the size of Timothee Chalamet.
04:57 - Chalamet! - I love it.
04:59 I'm not correcting him, I'm enjoying it.
05:02 One of my favourite memories of it is...
05:05 They came in and went, "Oh, here we go, this is the marshmallow bridge."
05:08 Olivia was like, "Oh, my God, this is fantastic."
05:10 But I do think you went, "Oh, you should jump on it."
05:13 I didn't encourage you, damn it.
05:16 I took one step on the marshmallow bridge and fell.
05:20 Olivia shouted, just in case no-one had heard the big crash,
05:23 "Tom Davis has broken the marshmallow bridge!"
05:26 - And then you heard... - "2424, we've got a problem on the marshmallow bridge."
05:30 I thought people were going to walk across it.
05:32 "Yeah, well, Timothee Chalamet, not you, you're 22 stone."
05:35 It's the difference.
05:36 By the end of this, get him to say Chalamet.
05:39 I don't want to.
05:40 I'm also going to say Chalamet. I like Chalamet.
05:43 If he moved to Croydon and you saw him down at the pub,
05:46 you'd go, "Do you know Timothee Chalamet?"
05:48 "Yeah, he's a good kid, nice boy."
05:50 Guys, good luck with the film.
05:52 - We talk too much. - You don't. I love it.
05:54 I just wish I had more time with you, but you're always a joy.
05:57 So good luck with the film, guys. Thank you so much.