Michael Bollner: Last News

It was announced in May that Timothee Chalamet would play a young Willy Wonka in a new prequel from Warner Bros. called Wonka and now the stars of the original film are sharing their thoughts!

Four of the original cast members of the  original film adaptation of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory chatted with HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY about where their iconic characters would be today.  The former child actors — Peter Ostrum (Charlie Bucket), Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt), Paris Themmen (Mike Teevee) and Michael Bollner (Augustus Gloop)– made their predictions while celebrating the film’s 50th anniversary and the release of its 4K Ultra HD edition this week.

Gene Wilder as the enigmatic titular chocolatier, and a cast of child actors as the lucky recipients of the golden tickets, who were granted a tour of Wonka's top-secret factory and all the sweets they could eat — though, as any fan knows, the candy-colored dream isn't all that it seems.To celebrate the film's fittingly golden anniversary, ET's Lauren Zima spoke with four of the main cast members — Peter Ostrum, who played Charlie Bucket; Julie Dawn Cole, who played Veruca Salt; Michael Bollner, who played Augustus Gloop; and Paris Themmen, who played Mike Teavee — to share their memories from the set of the iconic film.«All of it was pretty much the way you would expect that it was, especially the chocolate room,» Themmen recalled of

He found fame as a child as Augustus Gloop in Gene Wilder's iconic movie Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory. But even the mist die hard fan would have struggled to recognise Michael Bollner when he appeared on This Morning on Tuesday.