Timothee Chalamet is deliciously, devilishly weird in Wonka

Weird. Deliciously, devilishly weird. That’s about as good a way as any to describe Willy Wonka, a character immortalised on the pages of Roald Dahl’s 1964 classic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Turned pop-culture icon in the hands of the late, great Gene Wilder in Mel Stuart’s 1971 big-screen adaptation, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, the character has, over the years, endured controversy — and Johnny Depp.