Timothée Chalamet is promoting Wonka’s song in the SNL teaser, because now he can

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The SAG strike officially came to a temporary end on Wednesday at midnight, and Timothée Chalamet — no longer abiding by strike rules — acted quickly by promoting his upcoming film in a teaser for the new episode of “Saturday Night Live” he’s set to host this year. weekend.

“SNL” cast member Bowen Yang interrupted In the clip After its release on Thursday, Chalamet exclaimed: “Willy Wonka!” …Sorry, the actors’ strike just ended and I can finally promote my film.

As Yang began to congratulate him, Chalamet interrupted again, cheerfully saying, “Willy Wonka! Chocolate. Chocolate man… Willy Wonka… Chocolate.”

Chalamet plays the famous chocolatier in the musical “Wonka,” scheduled for release next month, but has been banned from promoting the film due to strict strike rules imposed by SAG.

Actors in the union were also prohibited from doing any on-camera work, background acting, narration, preparations, rehearsals, auditions, or promotion of work under contract, including press tours, social media posts, and “appearances.” “Personal”.

In July, 160,000 actors joined the already striking Writers Guild of America (WGA) on picket lines after the union was unable to reach an agreement on a new contract with studios and streamers. Strikes halted production across the industry for months, putting thousands of people out of work and bringing the industry to a standstill.

The Hollywood actors’ union, SAG-AFTRA, announced Wednesday that it has reached a tentative agreement with major film and television studios to put an end to the longest actors’ strike in history. They said at the time that the strike would end at midnight on Wednesday.

Union members must still ratify the agreement before it enters into force.

Chalamet will host SNL on Saturday — this will be his second time, the first being in December 2020. Joining the actor this weekend is musical guest Boygenius.