Getting cast as an Oompa Loompa in the adaptation of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was a huge break for Rusty Goffe, who was 22 as filming began in 1971. However, he soon found an unexpected ...

Left: Hugh Grant at the world premiere of "Wonka" in November 2023. Right: Grant as an Oompa Loompa in "Wonka."Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP; Warner Bros. Hugh Grant stars as an Oompa Loompa in Paul ...

A batch of exclusive images from the forthcoming movie musical Wonka have been released, and among them is a first look at Hugh Grant in costume as a tiny, orange, green-haired Oompa-Loompa. It was ...

“Wonka” is the latest film to try to shake the tiny unpaid laborers from their colonialist roots in Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Share full article Hugh Grant, opposite Timothée ...

Nick Romano is a senior editor at Entertainment Weekly with 15 years of journalism experience covering entertainment. His work previously appeared in Vanity Fair, Vulture, IGN, and more. Grant's Oompa ...

"Oompa Loompa doompety dong, most of these films were, frankly, too long," Hugh Granted joked onstage at the 2024 BAFTA Awards Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection; Guy Levy/BAFTA via Getty Hugh ...

The Willy Wonka experience in Scotland went viral for all the wrong reasons. It's having an unlikely comeback in LA. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks about it with Kirsty Paterson, who plays an Oompa Loompa.

In the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory text, the eccentric Willy Wonka discovered Oompa Loompas and invited them to live and work at his wondrous chocolate factory. The three film ...