By the early 1990s, Gene Wilder quietly stepped back from making movies—not because he’d lost interest in acting, but because he’d lost interest in what Hollywood had become. After Another You (1991), Wilder said he stopped accepting roles because the scripts arriving on his desk felt like “junk,” crowded with shouting, profanity, and what he called the new Hollywood obsession with “excessive violence.” He had no desire to chase trends or put on 3D glasses. What mattered to him was craft, charac

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One of the key reasons Gene Wilder introduced the limp to Willy Wonka’s character in the 1971 hit film “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” was to make it difficult for the audience to tell if he was lying or not. The limp was a deliberate part of Wilder’s performance strategy to keep the audience guessing about Wonka’s true intentions and emotions. Follow us @historyphotographed for more ❤️ | History In Pictures