Hugh Grant is still in Oompa Loompa mode!
When Grant, 63, appeared at the 2024 BAFTA Awards on Sunday to present the award for Best Director at the ceremony, Wonka the actor shared an insane song while channeling his Oompa Loompa character.
“Oompa Loompa doompety dee, now the best director category,” Grant said on stage, to the great entertainment of the live audience at the awards ceremony. “Oompa Loompa doompety dong, most of those movies were frankly too long,” he added. “Ooompa Loompa doompety yes, but for some reason the nominees are…”
Grant then presented the award Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan during a night in which the film won seven BAFTAs out of a total of 13 nominations it received, the most of any film at Sunday’s awards.
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Wonka.
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The Actually love star was digitally shrunk to play an Oompa Loompa opposite Timothée Chalamet in the Wonka, which follows the adventures of a young Willy Wonka who begins selling chocolate for a living. The film introduces Grant’s character as Wonka’s adversary who steals his chocolate as revenge for Wonka using ingredients found in Oompa Loompa territory.
Wonka has grossed $209.8 million at the domestic box office and more than $600 million worldwide since its December release. Grant and Chalamet’s press tour featured plenty of fun at Grant’s expense, with Chalamet memorably singing the Oompa Loompa song — first featured in the 1971 film adaptation of the musical. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory which starred Gene Wilder — with Grant at the film’s Tokyo premiere in November.
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“I was a little nervous about him. I don’t like people who are too successful and I thought his career was going too well,” Grant told PEOPLE of working with Chalamet, 28, in December. “But I warmed to him. He gossiped about me well.”
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“I couldn’t be on set because I’m too big. But I was in a tent nearby with a helmet on and all the cameras,” he added of how the production set up his motion-capture performance, which reduced the Oompa Loompa character to about 18 inches. “A very complicated job.”
After WonkaGrant is set to star in an upcoming Netflix film Unfrosted: A Pop-Tart Story and HBO’s upcoming miniseries Regimeaccording to his IMDb page.
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