Timothee Chalamet, who plays Willy Wonka in the latest movie “Wonka” has recently said that he tried to recreate Gene Wilder’s cane scene.

Chalamet said, “Maybe I shouldn’t even say this because I don’t feel like we failed, but failure is important, but we tried in the sort of opening chocolate store sequence for Slugworth, Prodonse, and Fickelgruber, introduced the evil chocolatiers, we tried a bit to get that roll in.”

He also said, “And it required like, we put magnet on the bottom of the cane and then a magnet on the floor because he leaves it in place and then the role itself is nearly like, impossible to accomplish but actually getting the cane to stay… so we figured in the original they must have built a tiny hole in the ground or something for Gene Wilder but I don’t know.”