It had to be a case of overactive anticipation at work. But I hadn’t read Erma all those years for nothing. No siree. I packed up approximately nine billion dollars in hair styling products designed ...

In the upcoming "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" prequel, Grant portrays an Oompa Loompa – a fictional group of tiny elf-life creatures who have an orange appearance and green hair - and he ...

Instead of smiling servants, there’s a sole Oompa-Loompa, and he is something of a lone wolf, more cranky nemesis and eventual mentor than kowtowing lackey. Put simply, he’s Hugh Grant.

“Once you see Hugh Grant as an 18-inch high orange man with green hair, you go, ‘Ah, yes. I know what Oompa Loompas are. It all makes perfect sense.’” Was it worth it? Only time will tell!

Grant, who plays an 18-inch-tall orange Oompa Loompa with green hair in the new film, tells PEOPLE that King sent him an early rendering of the character sans clothes as a gag.

Watch Timothee Chalamet sing ‘Oompa Loompa’ to Hugh Grant as fans ‘cringe’ By Erin Keller Published Nov. 21, 2023, 3:56 p.m. ET ...