Life-sized chocolate statue of Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka unveiled in LondonPremier Comms
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00:00 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!
00:05 My name is Yinka Patini and I'm in Trafalgar Square this morning to unveil a life-size
00:17 Willy Wonka statue celebrating the release of the Wonka movie.
00:21 I'm Jen Lindsay-Clark, I'm a chocolate sculptor. It's taken over five weeks to create,
00:26 about 200 hours, three of us on the job. The head sculpts initially Tim Simpson made that in clay
00:32 and then me and Jeff Thomas created the body experimenting with all the different textures
00:37 that we could find right up to his wonderful iconic top hat. My favourite part was the boots
00:42 which took the longest to get right but also the velvet texture on the coat was a triumph.
00:46 My first reaction was wow, all the textures and his outfit and his shoes and his hair and his...