Lead actor from 'shambolic' Willy Wonka Experience reveals ‘red flags’ before disastrous event

Yahoo UK

Paul Connell, who played the part of ‘Wonka’, branded the £35 a head showcase an “absolute mess” after police were forced to break up angry crowds of visitors.

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00:00 I got cast as the part on the Thursday

00:02 and

00:04 Was told that I needed to learn the script for the Friday. So I said no problem send it over the script was 15 pages

00:12 monologue pretty much of

00:15 AI generated gibberish

00:18 Which I will read some for you if you were in fact

00:24 No, I don't even need to read it because I learned it all and it was

00:28 It was mad. I've learned all of it. That's all in there. That's in my brain

00:33 So I'll give you one of the lines from the script

00:36 I'm not gonna do the Willy Wonka voice because I think I've embarrassed myself enough over the last few days

00:42 But one of my favorite lines was there is a man who lives here his name is not known

00:49 So we call him the unknown

00:52 the unknown is

00:55 an evil chocolate maker

00:59 Who lives in the walls

01:01 we were told on the experience to hand out a

01:05 Jellybean one jellybean per child

01:08 and a

01:11 quarter of a cup of

01:14 Tesco's own brand lemonade

01:17 That was what the children got no no chocolate

01:20 There was no chocolate to be had at this chocolate factory

01:24 which I really think they missed a trick because if there's ever a an

01:28 event to sell chocolate

01:31 I'd say it was this one

01:34 But no they went with them a single jellybean in it and a quarter of a glass of lemonade

01:40 We turned up as a group of actors

01:42 in the morning on the Saturday and saw

01:48 What this was?

01:51 You could say it was a it was a world of imagination and that you had to imagine it was not a dirty old warehouse

01:58 But we walked around this place and saw

02:02 Just health and safety nightmare for a start and

02:07 we saw

02:10 There was no special effects that was promised there was a thing that was supposed to be called the Twilight Tunnel

02:14 which was supposed to be a tunnel that and

02:18 Like like a tunnel everyone walked through that was like dark

02:21 But there's supposed to be stars like twinkling inside and stuff like that which I thought could have been quite cool

02:25 and what it was was a

02:28 bunch of

02:31 checkered

02:33 flags

02:34 Pinned to a wall with some mirrors that were that were found

02:39 I don't know where maybe probably the toilets the script had a moment where I was supposed to

02:47 Suck up the unknown with a giant vacuum cleaner, and I asked about that and the people

02:54 Running the event were like we we don't know what to do with that just just

03:00 Improvise that I

03:03 Can't I can't improvise a vacuum cleaner

03:08 I either have you either have a vacuum cleaner, or you don't have a vacuum cleaner. That's the two rules of

03:16 Having a vacuum cleaner, and we didn't have a vacuum cleaner, so I made the creative decision to cut that right out the script

03:23 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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