Gene Wilder said he’d play Willie Wonka, with one key condition…
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As tributes pour in for the late Gene Wilder, a story surfaces about the condition he imposed to play the title role in “Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory”: that he make his first appearance on screen apparently crippled, so that from then on, “no one will know if I’m lying or telling the truth.”Aug. 30, 2016
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