Timothee Chalamet debuts Willy Wonka costume for upcoming prequel film: 'The suspense is terrible'

Timothee Chalamet debuted his look as Willy Wonka in the upcoming prequel to “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”

On Sunday, the 25-year-old actor took to Instagram to share a pair of images from the set of the film titled "Wonka." The first shows his completely different, yet decidedly familiar, Wonka costume. He poses behind the camera with a stern look on his face while sporting a brown top hat, gold shirt and an intricate scarf, all covered by a long red jacket. 

The second image showed what appeared to be Chalamet’s hand reaching for a button on the inside of what might be Wonka’s cane. Although it’s unclear, it appears as though there’s a small gift box with a button sticking out of it on the top of a retractable orb on a stick. Gene Wilder famously used a cane in the 1971 film "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." However, it was ultimately a ruse to make people think that he had a limp only to do a spectacular, crowd-pleasing flip.