How Tall Oompa Loompas Are In Willy Wonka Movies

Oompa-Loompas, the helpful workers that keep Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory running will return in Wonka, an origin story for the inventive chocolatier played by Timothée Chalamet, but their height has changed over the various Willy Wonka movies that have been made. They made their debut in Roald Dahl’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where they were described as a tribe of 3,000 Black pygmies transported by Mr. Wonka to his factory to work, and were criticized for being a collection of racist stereotypes. In the early ’70s, a revised edition of his novel described the Oompa-Loompas as dwarfs with “golden-brown hair” and “rosy-white skin.”