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Bleacher and Mrs. Scrubitt are major antagonists in the 2023 musical fantasy film Wonka, which serves as a prequel to Roald Dahl's 1964 classic novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and a prequel to the 1971 musical fantasy film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
They are laundry-owning con-artists that run the "hotel" (in actuality a laundry house) that Willy Wonka stays in. They are careful, yet skilled manipulators that force Wonka, alongside several other people over the years, to pay excessive charges during their stays and are then told to sign a contract to have people work for them, and whenever they sign the contract and failing to read the small print on it, they are then forced to do labor for the rest of their lives as a result.
Bleacher was portrayed by Tom Davis in his first villainous role and Mrs. Scrubitt was portrayed by Olivia Colman, who also played Madame Thenardier in the Les Miserables miniseries, Godmother in Fleabag, PAL in The Mitchells vs. the Machines and Mama Bear in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
Personalities[]
Mrs. Scrubitt is very rude, arrogant, and manipulative, believing herself to be superior to others. This manifests into her verbally abusing and taking advantage of her tenants, so she can benefit off of them and isn’t even nice to her own henchman Bleacher. She acts bratty and rather immature as well, using the money from her tenants to spoil herself and becoming aggressive when she cannot get what she want.
Bleacher is more dimwitted, acting like a henchman or assistant to Scrubitt. They both can be manipulated easily, proven by Wonka and Noodle being able to pretend that Bleacher is a Lord. Oddly however, Bleacher has a soft spot for one of the tenants, comedian Larry Chucklesworth, telling him he has “a good thing” going.
As such Mrs. Scrubitt is a gold digger, which is why she fell for Bleacher as she believed the lie that he was a lord, but when it was finally revealed that it was a lie, she went back to abusing Bleacher.
Biography[]
Before the events of Wonka[]
Mrs. Scrubitt found Noodle when she was a baby in the mail chute, after Arthur Slugworth dumped her her down there so he could obtain the family fortune. While there, Mrs. Scrubitt charges her 40,000 sovereign for living there, and forced her to work it off her whole life.
They then somehow scammed Abacus Crunch, Piper Benz, Lottie Bell and Larry Chucklesworth (possibly the same way they scammed Willy Wonka), and forced them to work of their debt by working in the laundromat.
Wonka[]
Their dog finds Wonka with the scent of a mailman's pants, Bleacher offers a place for Wonka to stay, he agrees and meets Mrs. Scrubitt, where he was asked to sign a contract for a room to stay in for a day, despite Noodle asking him to read the fine print. After Wonka signed the contract, Mrs. Srcubitt locks Noodle away.
The next day he gets his money taken by the police away but is given one sovereign to pay for the room, but when he comes back to pay them, Mrs. Scrubitt reveals that he now owes them 10,000 sovereigns and is thrown into the washing room where he meets the rest of the victims, which had all been previously scammed by Bleacher and Mrs. Scrubitt. Then he meets Noodle, then the next day (or more time) they trick Mrs. Scrubitt into thinking Bleacher is an aristocrat, and it works, keeping them occupied with each other, as Wonka and Noodle escape each day to sell chocolates, until Slugworth came by and tell them he payed Mrs. Scrubitt to poison the chocolate with Yeti Sweat, causing a public chaos and indirect terrorism, the customers destroy Wonka's new place, then when everyone who got scammed by them got to leave because of Slugworth’s money, except Noodle, where they keep her locked up, until Wonka and the rest of the gang break her out.
The last we see them are in the epilogue, where they drink the poison they used for the chocolates to disguise themselves, but it doesn't work and they get arrested by the police.
Relationships[]
Allies[]
Enemies[]
- Willy Wonka - Former Hostage and Former Employee
- Noodle - Former Hostage and Former Employee
- Abacus Crunch - Former Hostage and Former Employee
- Piper Benz - Former Hostage and Former Employee
- Larry Chucklesworth - Former Hostage and Former Employee
- Lottie Bell - Former Hostage and Former Employee
- Officer Affable - Captor
Trivia[]
- The film's epilogue heavily suggests the couple are actually the true identity of Mr. and Mrs. Twit from another popular Roald Dahl novel.
- Olivia Colman, who played Mrs. Scrubitt, believes that her character was based partly on Aunt Sponge from James and the Giant Peach in her interview with GamesRadar about the film. Conversely, writer/director Paul King based Scrubbitt on the title character of Dahl's "The Landlady" short horror story.
- Mrs. Scrubbitt is very similar to Agatha Trunchbull from Matilda.
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