She’s making the unknown … known.
The Scottish actress who played “The Unknown” in the disastrous “Willy Wonka” experience in Glasgow shed her chrome-painted mask this past weekend to reveal how this role has changed her life.
In a three-part TikTok series, the actress, whose name is Felicia, revealed that the role — which propelled her into the upper echelons of internet stardom — was her first ever paid acting gig.
“So I was approached by the House of Illuminati and I was supposed to be cast as one of the Wonkas,” Felicia, 16, tells viewers while donning her iconic mask.
According to the actress, she passed on the lead role after she “did not like” the script that she had been given.
Felica revealed that she was then recast to play the entity called “The Unknown” which, according to the AI-generated script, was an evil chocolate maker who lived inside the walls of Wonka’s factory.
In a second video posted on Friday, the actress went in-depth about her experience playing the black-capped rapscallion.
“So on the day of the actual event we just got told to ditch the script and just improvise,” Felicia revealed. “And the only direction I got given was to act creepy.”
“So I tried to imagine what a man living in the walls would be like,” she continued cutting to the now-viral footage of her hiding behind a mirror and scaring several children.
Despite having zero guidelines for the experience, the teen revealed that she really enjoyed working at the experience saying that all of her co-stars were”lovely and took me right under their wing”
Speaking with the BBC, Felica revealed that she actually had a great time despite initially feeling embarrassed.
“At first I was really embarrassed about it. But when we went to the pub after, we were just laughing about it,” she told the outlet. “It was so ridiculous it was actually funny. And now it’s become viral, it’s genuinely life-changing and I’m really happy I did it.”
“Everybody loves the character and posting about it, so it makes me happy that people can see the funny side,” she gushed.
“There weren’t any rehearsals. I got there early to practice but it hadn’t been set up.
The Glasgow-based experience first made headlines on Thursday when police were summoned to a warehouse after several irate parents complained about being scammed by the “absolute shambles of an event.”
It was reported by South West News Service that the event had been billed as a “journey filled with wondrous creations and enchanting surprises” following the purchase of a $45 ticket.
Parents further complained that they waited over an hour for a less-than-10-minute experience and did not include the advertised chocolate fountains, decor or handcrafted candy drinks.
House of Illuminati later apologized in a statement in which it acknowledged that its “fabulous event” failed to meet expectations and had devolved into a “stressful and frustrating day.”
“Unfortunately last minute we were let down in many areas of our event and tried our best to continue on and push through and now realize we probably should have canceled first thing this morning instead,” the statement said.
Billy Coull, director of the House of Illuminati, blamed the disaster on “holographic technology” not arriving on time, bizarrely claiming that the Frye- Festiva-esq event would have looked as promoted with the tech.
“My vision of the artistic rendition of a well-known book didn’t come to fruition. For that I am absolutely truly and utterly sorry,” he said. “There was every intention to hold the event, from the pictures, despite not being in the best light; hopefully you’ll be able to see that there was every intention to hold the event.”
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
