{"id":925153,"date":"2026-10-08T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925153\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:00:11","slug":"jeremy-allen-white-agrees-with-you-that-hed-make-a-pretty-good-gene-wilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/925153\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Allen White agrees with you that he’d make a pretty good Gene Wilder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since someone first looked at the first episode of The Bear, saw its star\u2019s curly hair, narrow features, and blue eyes that screamed to an uncaring universe that this man just needs some fucking sleep, people have been fan-casting Jeremy Allen White as beloved actor Gene Wilder. (Because while plans for a Wilder biopic are currently hanging out in the \u201cin development\u201d stage, the simple fact that he\u2019s someone that a decent chunk of modern-day fortysomethings grew up seeing as a surrogate movie dad means the project is, apparently, inevitable.) You may now add to the list of people calling for Jeremy Allen White to play Gene Wilder one Jeremy Allen White, who took a break from his The Social Reckoning<\/a>\u00a0press duties this week to reveal that he\u2019d absolutely be game to take a shot at the Willy Wonka\u00a0star.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be my honor,\u201d White told\u00a0Today\u00a0this week, per\u00a0Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. Stating that he\u2019d \u201cabsolutely\u201d play Wilder if asked, White quickly rattled off some of his favorite roles: \u201cYoung Frankenstein is one of my earliest film memories. Blazing Saddles\u2026 he\u2019s a genius. It would be an honor. He was a genius. Yeah, I love him. I\u2019ve always loved him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, in order for White to install Wilder in his rightful place alongside Bruce Springsteen and Rotta The Hutt in his swiftly growing filmography, he does\u00a0need someone to actually ask him to do it. (Unless he just wants to spend a couple of days with his hat on the sidewalk outside Grauman\u2019s Chinese Theater, although now we\u2019re basically just doing Jimmy Fallon\u2019s segment producers\u2019 jobs for them.) As noted by EW, the film rights to Wilder\u2019s life are currently held by\u00a0A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints\u2018 Dino Montiel, who\u2019s currently working on a script for a biopic project with Love, Victor\u00a0writer Jeremy Roth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever since someone first looked at the first episode of The Bear, saw its star\u2019s curly hair, narrow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-925153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}