Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory was one of secrecy. The cheerful songsters Oompa Loompas revealed the dirty truth behind the chocolatier’s success.

In Dahl’s original, the Oompa-Loompas were starving African pygmies, subsisting largely on a mash of green caterpillars and tree bark until “rescued” by Willy Wonka.

Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka is all set to hit US theaters and much of the world this Friday, but fans have long been curious about whether or not the latest installment in the Willy Wonka film ...

The great thing, though, was that I laughed so long, learned so much, and met so many terrific people at the conference that I almost forgot about my World of Willy Wonka look—until I got a peek at ...

The Oompa Loompas actually have a rather troubling origin in Roald Dahl’s original novel, published in 1964, because the characters were described as African pygmies (per Medium) when the first ...

The movie skirts some of this simply because it predates Willy’s fame, and maybe by the time the presumptive sequel arrives, the Oompa-Loompas will have formed a trade union.