The director for the upcoming “Wonka” movie described the sheer amount of chocolate the cast ate during filming, joking that he couldn’t understand how lead actor Timothée Chalamet didn’t gain weight.

“I’ve [gained] about 50 pounds, but I hope I can lose it before [the movie] comes out,” the film’s director and co-writer Paul King told People during a recent interview. 

“It’s a miracle that Timmy remains so slim and handsome,” King joked about the film’s star. “I’m trying to fatten him up, but it’s hard to do.”

The musical fantasy film “Wonka” is a prequel to the 1971 classic “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” which starred Gene Wilder. The Warner Bros. production will follow Chalamet in the titular role as he begins his career as a chocolatier. It is currently scheduled for a December 2023 release date.

When asked just how much chocolate the cast and crew ate on set, King said it was a “great deal, which was a wonderful thing” and helped establish the idea that his “life had taken a wonderful turn.”

“We had this incredible chocolatier,” the director told People. “She made these incredible concoctions, and we would taste them. They tasted much better than they needed to, because obviously actors are good at pretending things, but the miracle was they tasted every bit as good as they looked.”

He went on to describe one scene involving Chalamet’s Wonka and his friend Noodle (Calah Lane) being submerged into a literal vat of chocolate.

“We actually made an enormous vat of hot chocolate — not scalding, just warm hot chocolate for them to immerse themselves in,” King said. “So there was a lot of chocolate around.”

Last week, the director praised Chalamet’s performance in “Wonka” and said fans would be impressed with the range of his skills. 

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“I think what’s so remarkable about his performance is not only that he is funny and mischievous and quite mysterious, as well — just like the Willy Wonka that people will know — but also, he brings such heart to the role and he’s a brilliant actor,” the director said. “He’s incredibly emotionally intelligent and can bring a great deal of emotional truth to the role.”

He said viewers will see how the actor “can also sing and dance brilliantly.” 

“It’s really a tour de force for him there,” King said. “He was rehearsing for months before we went to kind of that honing skills, which was a pleasure to watch.

One former top Hollywood exec has a radical solution for ending multiple union strikes.

The writers strike has been going on for months, but now that SAG-AFTRA joined, the entertainment industry is effectively shut down until an agreement can be reached.

Barry Diller, chairman and senior executive of IAC and Expedia Group and former CEO of Paramount Pictures, says that industry executives and top-earning A-list stars should take massive pay cuts in an effort to reach a long-term agreement.

“There’s no trust,” Diller said during an interview that aired Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

“You have the actors’ union saying, ‘How dare these 10 people who run these companies earn all this money and won’t pay us?’ While, if you look at it on the other side, the top 10 actors get paid more than the top 10 executives. I’m not saying either is right. Actually, everybody’s probably overpaid at the top end.”

“The one idea I had is to say, as a good-faith measure, both the executives and the most-paid actors should take a 25 percent pay cut to try and narrow, narrow the difference between those who get highly paid and those that don’t.”

Diller also said there would be “devastating effects” if an agreement wasn’t reached by September 1. Now that actors have joined the strike, TV and movie productions are completely shut down.

The former Paramount exec warned that failing to reach an agreement quickly would have long-lasting effects on staff and viewers.

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“What will happen is, if in fact, it doesn’t get settled until Christmas or so, then, next year, there’s not going to be many programs for anybody to watch,” Diller said. “So, you’re going to see subscriptions get pulled, which is going to reduce the revenue of all these movie companies, television companies, the result of which is that there will be no programs. And at just the time, strike is settled, that you want to get back up, there won’t be enough money. So this actually will have devastating effects, if it is not settled soon.”

“The truth is, this [Hollywood] is a huge business both domestically and for world export. … These conditions will potentially produce an absolute collapse of an entire industry,” he explained.