Wonka’s Olivia Colman and Tom Davis had one cue for their musical number and they almost missed it

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Olivia Colman and Tom Davis speak to Yahoo UK about playing &quot;classic Dahl-esque baddies&quot; Mrs Scrubbit and Bleacher, and their amusing mistakes in musical number Scrub Scrub.

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00:00 There's such great musical numbers in the film, but you two got a really fun one.

00:03 - I wonder how did you find... - You're the best singers, innit?

00:05 - Well, yes. - How did you find singing?

00:08 Gradually, as me and Olivia were doing more singing,

00:10 they were like, "Maybe we should just be a little bit shorter."

00:13 We just kept singing, and then we'd just...

00:15 That was it.

00:16 Really, legit.

00:17 And even that took longer than some of the big...

00:20 You see these big dancing numbers that they did in the...

00:22 - With the fly, there are animals. - Yeah.

00:24 And then with ours, it was like, "You two have two lines to get right."

00:28 And sometimes we forgot to get up the lift shaft.

00:31 There would be the outtakes to watch, I'd like to see that.

00:34 Oh, yeah, I'd love to see the bloopers of this movie.

00:37 - I imagine there was quite a lot of us. - Yes, there was quite a lot.

00:40 There was a lot of laughter, a lot of fun.

00:42 And, yeah, that thing that's...

00:43 And that's what's great about Paul as well, is that collaborative way that he...

00:47 - He's the worst giggler. - Yeah.

00:49 But the director's meant to be the grown-up,

00:52 not the one ruining a shot cos he's going...

00:55 - Giggling. - But he was always giggling, which was really gratifying.

00:58 (AUDIO OUT)

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