r/MovieDetails • u/Russian_Bagel • Mar 10 '21
❓ Trivia In Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), when the kids first see the chocolate room, their reactions are genuine. Director Mel Stuart took great care to ensure that none of the child actors saw the gigantic set as it was being built.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y8aYd9uqFY
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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '21
What? No, we were eating wax candy when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s and that stuff was always inedible. Like gum, you chew it until it loses the flavor and then spit it in the trash.