Rebecca Ferguson had quite the tale to tell while promoting Dune: Part Two.
The actress, who returns to Arrakis for the sequel, sat down with Northern Ireland’s U105 radio station to discuss Denis Villeneuve’s film. During the conversation, she shared a funny story she had just heard about her 5-year-old daughter that involved an NSFW Timothée Chalamet greeting card.
“It’s Valentine’s Day, right?” she began. “I don’t even know if you can show this or whatever, and my daughter is in a shop with my husband. I was told this today. … She goes up to a card, and she goes, ‘This is perfect for Mommy.’”
She continued, “It’s a picture of Timothée, who she thought was her dad, because it looks like my husband, and it says, ‘Will you Wonka my Willy?’ … She doesn’t get it. She’s like, ‘Oh it’s Willy Wonka. Willy Wonka my Willy, dad. Like, no.”
The card was in reference to Chalamet’s starring turn in Warner Bros. Wonka, a prequel focusing on Willy Wonka and how he became the famed chocolatier in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
In addition to her daughter, Sage, who she shares with husband Rory St. Clair Gainer, Ferguson also has a son from a previous relationship with Ludwig Hallberg.
In an interview with the Belfast Telegraph in 2017, before her daughter was born, the Mission Impossible actress explained that she tries to “normalize the job” for her son’s sake.
“He comes to the set, I go off and leave him with the stunt guys, and I come in, and he’s hanging off a harness somewhere,” she told the publication at the time. “He loves it, but I don’t think he would like to act.”
She also admitted she worries about messing things up for him. “We always make mistakes,” she shared. “I think we look at our backgrounds and I think, ‘What didn’t I like about myself and what can I change?’”
