Julie Dawn Cole

Their amazement came from seeing the finished room for the first time, and it was authentic, although the food did not remain quite so magical after hours of filming underneath hot studio lights.

Julie Dawn Cole, who played Ruka Salt, later remembered having to scoop chocolate-colored filling from a large prop fruit.

She did not particularly like chocolate as a child, and whatever was inside that prop did nothing to change her mind, since she described it as being truly gross.

Then there was the tunnel and the boat that we touched on in the beginning of the episode.

Denise Nickerson, aka Violet, continued acting through the 70s and did quite a bit of TV work on shows like Dark Shadows and The Electric Company, which was a favorite of mine as a child.

She left the business as a young adult and lived a very private life also until her death in 2019.

Julie Dawn Cole, aka Veruca, continued acting and later became a psychotherapist.

She has remained one of the most visible members of that original cast.

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And you've also got Julie Dawn Cole.

Veruca Salt?

Yes,

Yeah.

Because he's like this all of a sudden and he does that somersault and he's done that also I think for the first time in front of the cast as well, one of them things.

That Julie Dawn Cole, Veruca Salt, the last scene she shot was the first scene you see of her at the factory.

And she'd had a bit of a growth and she'd actually grown boobs.