Read more: 10 Milk Chocolate Bars, Ranked By Taste And Texture Despite the auspicious start, production was far from easy, and not just for Augustus Gloop, who had to dive into the "chocolate" river.

Michael Bollner, who played Augustus Gloop in the film, noted in a 2021 interview with Polygon that the river was actually about 10 centimeters in depth, with only a square meter-sized hole deep ...