![]() ![]() He is not a director who says 'no' very often. So I worked out all the details before I got on the set and Tim Burton was totally open to everything. Also I was very nervous about working on green screen, which I had not done before. I wanted to fit into Wonderland, which was a mad, imaginative wonderful world. I had been very nervous about working with Tim Burton because I had admired him from the first time I saw Beetle juice and I didn't want to disappoint him. ![]() On this film Tim Burton pointed me in the direction that he wanted me to go in and then he basically said to do what I wanted to do with it. So one of the biggest differences about working with Tim Burton is how much he inspires people. When you work with Tim Burton everybody not only tries as hard as they can, they also bring their most creative selves and everyone does what they can to make it as special as his vision. I felt so privileged to be around and I was so inspired by that. And then they would say.here's a solo.and be like, oh really!, Thank you! Tim Burton has a joy to him and a commitment to his own aesthetic that I respect so deeply. What was it like to work with Johnny Depp and Tim Burton?Īnne Hathaway: Oh, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter are all like this awesome rock band and I felt like I was invited to play back-up on their album. So when Johnny Depp was reciting that in the film I was saying it along with him. I had been planning on reading the books for some time because when I was in Fifth Grade a teacher had us memorize the Jabberwocky poem. I remember when I read the book that my hormones were raging and I felt a connection to it. People have emotional reactions to things - often angry reactions. One of the things that someone pointed out was that Wonderland is a place of extreme emotions. ![]() When I was doing my research for the film I read a lot of essays on the books. Also I was so entertained by the world of the books. I was really struck by Alice's emotions and the way she felt overwhelmed by the world around her. I didn't read them till I was at college. So that is where the punk rock and vegan thing came in.Īnne Hathaway: I loved the books. So she had repressed her aggression and hadn't explored it. When she says it is against her vows to harm any living creature, well I am a geek - and I had a lot of time on my hands, obviously - so I made up a whole back story about how she maybe liked meat but it made her sick and how maybe her parents saw her sister start to display violent tendencies and so they got her to make a vow that she would never harm another living creature. Where did the vegan/punk rocker description of the White Queen come from?Īnne Hathaway: That came from the script actually. I was so happy that I did not recognize myself. I thought that came out in the lips and the nails. What I was struck by when I saw the film was that the hair and make-up actually matched what I was trying to do with the character - which was to play her as someone who was good but with a tiny bit of darkness in her. She is the White Queen so obviously the color of her hair is informed by that. I think this is the more extreme version of it. A lot of them have pale hair and shadowed eyes and dark lips. What did you make of the platinum blonde look and shimmering white gown you have in the film?Īnne Hathaway: I think the look of my character really fits into Tim Burton's canon, when you look at a lot of his heroines. Today we chat with Anne Hathaway, who played the White Queen in the film. In the second of a seven-part interview series, we caught up with the actors and the filmmakers behind the movie to discuss the making of this billion dollar epic. Tim Burton's blockbuster rendition of the fairytale Alice in Wonderland is arriving on DVD, Blu-ray and three-disc Blu-ray June 1st, 2010. ![]()
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