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The internet loves a fiasco.
Its the online equivalent of slowing down in your car to look at a giant wreck.
But the end result was anything but magical.
While many photos have emerged of the Wonka fiasco, one picture in particular has grabbed the internets attention.
This photo from the Willy wonka experience is single handedly the photo of the year.
I know its only February but shut the vote theres no topping this.
kindly find this woman she needs to be interviewed ASAPpic.twitter.com/97wsodLLpQ
So who was she?
X posts have proclaimed her as one of thestandout memesof 2024 so far.
People arecomparing the image to works of artor making art of their own showingPaterson as the Mona Lisa.
Others are wondering if she is really themissing Kate Middletonindisguise.
Many arepredicting, with good reason, that shell be among the Halloween costumes you see this year.
Tell me about yourself.
What do you do when youre not dressed as an Oompa Loompa?Im 29.
I want to act more in childrens entertainment because I enjoy it.
Ive got a lot of energy, and I like being around kids.
But its more of a side hustle.
Im also a fire dancer, and Im just trying to build up my yoga teaching at the moment.
How did you get roped into this event?
Was it listed somewhere?It was listed on Indeed.
I dont normally get my acting jobs through Indeed, but I just thought,All right.
To be honest, I was a wee bit skeptical, because it was not through an agency.
They were offering 500 for two days of work, so I decided to go.
You went to the warehouse on Friday for a dress rehearsal.
What happened at that meeting?I was shocked, to be honest with you.
I wasnt expecting it to be like that.
It was the first time me and the other actors met.
They kept going on about how you could just improvise.
You wouldnt want people to improvise!
I kind of thought it was AI-generated, but by this point Id signed the contract.
Were you shown the costumes that day?
The set?This is the mental thing about the costumes!
So at this point, I was like, What is it you want us to wear?
Whats the makeup like?
But we didnt know what we were wearing at that point.
What happened when you turned up on Saturday?It was the exact same!
I was like,I dont know if I actually want to do this.
But Id signed the contract, and part of me didnt want to disappoint the kids going to this.
Honestly, it was bad enough.
They were so inappropriate for what it was.
It was just strange, and they were really cheaply made.
It was almost like they were secondhand.
Were you wearing orange body paint in that photo?
They didnt have any makeup or anything.
Its something Ive never experienced ever in my life.
By this point, Im judging myself for letting this go on as long as it did.
Tell me about that moment as the kids started coming in.
Did you see the innocence leave their eyes?They were quite upset.
I think they were confused.
But it was more the parents.
I just looked at them, and I think they must have known when they looked at me.
An older couple said to me, I really, really hope you get paid well for this.
And I was honest and I said, Im this close to walking out.
This is not what I signed up for.
But I didnt want to let the people around me down.
The actors I was working with are amazing people, and this has got nothing to do with them.
So I just thought,Im going to make the best of this.
We just had a bit of fun with it.
I was going around and feeling really embarrassed.
Ive never experienced anything like this in my life.
Lets talk about this photo thats gone viral.
What are you doing at this moment here?It doesnt even look like me!
Maybe I can get away with this.
But no, it went completely global.
In the exact moment of the photo, theyd told us to abandon the script.
They had this Jellybean Room, but they eventually ran out of jelly beans.
I was already rationing the jelly beans to three per kid, and that was me being generous.
I wanted to give the kids all the candy.
So we had no jelly beans, and people were coming up to me.
It was just humiliating.
I was starting to get angry.
The other Oompa Loompa came over at this point and I went, Where is everyone?!
Why am I left here on my own?!
Where is everyone else?!
You know how they talk about me contemplating my life?
This is me contemplating my life.
Im laughing about it now, but I was so angry for the kids and the parents.
I know people spent a lot of money coming here.
Its a disservice to what I do.
Eventually, I just walked off.
I was like, Im done.
But someone got a picture of me.
I suppose thats good it doesnt resemble you.Me and all my close friends recognized me!
And my friends know Im the only one who would do something as daft as this.
To be honest, I dont know how viral this has gone.
I turned off my phone for a day because I was like,Right, this is too much.
My phone was going off constantly, and I didnt know how to navigate it.
So how big has this gone?
Because this is the first interview Ive done where Ive really spoken about it.
It is very viral.
Im not going to lie.
But a lot of pictures from the event have gone viral.I dont blame it for going viral.
I just hope everyone gets their money back, because Ive not been paid for this.
None of the actors have.
So its like were kind of going through all this for nothing.
I just need to see the funny side of it.
Anyone who knows me knows I can take a joke.
I just didnt expect it to go this wild.
