Timothée Chalamet Jokes It Was ‘a Lot of Auto-Tune’ Singing in Wonka, Calls Dancing a ‘Learning Experience’

Timothée Chalamet developed some new skills while filming Wonka.

While talking to Extra at the film’s London premiere, the 27-year-old actor said performing the film’s dance numbers was “a great learning experience.”

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“I loved it,” he said. “My mom is a dance teacher and my grandma was a dancer, my sister is a dancer, so I’ve always been around it, but there’s a big difference between being around it and having to do it.”

As for the singing, he joked that it involves “a lot of auto-tune.”

Chalamet told PEOPLE on the red carpet that he also had to learn how to “live and love the tone” of the film.

Timothee Chalamet was spotted posing at the World Premiere of “Wonka” in London, England.

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“I realized everything I worked on [has had a] down-to-earth seriousness, and here I got to relax and play, like in high school, but I hadn’t worked in 10 years or so. So it was a learning curve,” he said. “But when it was in full swing, that’s when it felt like we were cooking.’ ”

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The film serves as a prequel to Roald Dahl’s 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with Chalamet as Willy Wonka.

While Chalamet said he had a learning curve to go through in the film, Wonka director and co-writer Paul King previously told PEOPLE how impressed he was with the actor’s performance.

Timothée Chalamet in “Wonka”.

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“I think what’s so remarkable about his performance is not only that he’s funny and mischievous and quite mysterious as well — just like the Willy Wonka that people will know — but also, he brings so much heart to the role and he’s brilliant an actor,” King said.

The director also told PEOPLE that fans can expect to see Willy Wonka’s “energy” shine through during the musical numbers.

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“We’re trying to evoke that through these kinds of dance sequences there. And there’s some really big numbers, and there’s an amazing kind of zero-gravity set piece [and] some really nice numbers,” he said.

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