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Contents:

• JOHNNY DEPP: 'DIDN’T YOU KNOW ALL MY CHARACTERS ARE GAY?'
• BOWEN YANG’S ‘PROUD GAY OOMPA LOOMPA’ POK FUN AT TIMOTHéE CHALAMET’S ‘TWK WONKA’

JOHNNY DEPP: 'DIDN’T YOU KNOW ALL MY CHARACTERS ARE GAY?'

Photograph: Peter Mounta/AP‘All my characters are gay’Depp reunted the well-documented story that he was almost fired om the set of the first Pirat of the Caribbean movie bee his outlandish performance as Jack Sparrow ially had Disney executiv worried.

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“When they asked if was gay, I said: ‘Didn’t you know all my characters are gay? Is Willy Wonka gay? Durg the show, I kept noticg ltle thgs that ma me thk that Willy Wonka may have been gay.

BOWEN YANG’S ‘PROUD GAY OOMPA LOOMPA’ POK FUN AT TIMOTHéE CHALAMET’S ‘TWK WONKA’

Oompa loompa doompety doo, I have a perfect “Saturday Night Live” segment for this weekend’s episo of “SNL, ” hosted by “No Time to Die” actor Rami Malek wh mil gut Young Thug, fan-favore st member Bowen Yang livered a crowd-pleasg imprsn of a “proud, gay Oompa Loompa” while pokg fun at Timothée Chalamet’s Willy movie star Chalamet is the latt actor to portray the eccentric ndy-maker “Wonka, ” an upg prequel based on Roald Dahl’s classic “Charlie and the Cholate Factory. ”“Here to ment on this is a proud, gay Oompa Loompa.

”Judgg by the boistero receptn om the live stud dience, Yang’s proud, gay Oompa Loompa is sted to go down “SNL” history as one of his most cherished “Weekend Update” personas — right next to his unfettable performance as the iceberg that sank the viral turn — along wh other standout moments om the 46th season of the long-nng sketch edy program — earned Yang an Emmy nomatn this year for supportg actor a edy seri. Roald Dahl, the thor of Charlie and the Cholate Factory, reportedly hated Gene’s performance, which he lled “sufficiently gay. ” Acrdg to Daniel Sturrock’s bgraphy Storyteller, who was a iend of the late Dahl’s iend, “Roald eventually me to tolerate the film, acknowledgg that were ‘many good thgs’ , but he never liked … He had ser rervatns about Gene Wilr’s performance as Wonka, which he thought ‘pretent’ and sufficiently ‘gay [ the old-fashned sense of the word] and bouncy’.