“No animator could dance that angrily,” directorPaul Kingplayfully points out.
“It’s the angriest dancing in film history.”
It took a team of animators to transform theNotting HillandLove Actuallystar into the character.

Timothee Chalamet and Hugh Grant in ‘Wonka’.Jaap Buittendijk/Warner Bros.
“It’s essentially all you.
You’ve been rebuilt.
That is the great confusion,” King chimes in.
Grant describes the process as donning a helmet with various small cameras to record his facial performance.
Watch the full installment of EW’sAround the Tablebelow.Wonkaopens in theaters this Friday.