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Mia on Johnny Depp

Mia Wasikowska says that Johnny Depp is basically her idol and that she was psyched about working with him.

“I think he’s so brave and smart with his choices. He can play a crazy character but still give it a core humanity which I think people can identify with,” Wasikowska said. (Depp, who prepares for his roles by drawing his characters, particularly wanted the crazy orange hair, an allusion to the mercury poisoning -- many hatters, it turns out, used mercury to cure felt. As Depp told the Los Angeles Times last summer: “I think he was poisoned, very, very poisoned, and it was coming out through his hair, through his fingernails and eyes.)"

Almost Alice Widget

This is really cool- it looks like the back of a CD.

Alice Screenwriter Interview

The LA Times had an interview(spoiler alert!! in the interview.) with the screenwriter of AiW, Linda Woolverton. A lot of people think of the new Alice as "dark" and "horrifying." She explains her take on it, and explains that she is not trying anything:

I'm sure they will be. It's audacious, what we've done. I don't know know where I got off. What was I thinking? [Laughs] I'm not joking, I was thinking when I was writing this, "Who do you think you are?" Seriously! At one point, I was in London, it was over Christmas, and I was writing, and I had been out walking in Hyde Park, and I ran up against a statue of Lewis Carroll. And I thought, "Linda, really, what have you got yourself into?" I can only say at this point that I wasn't trying to re-create his work. If anything, I hope that the movie inspires children who haven't read the books to go back and read the books.

Click here to read the entire interview. Oh! And I'VE read the books, but I'm not a child!! ;)

Almost Alice Concert

This is SO COOL!!! Walt Disney Pictures and Hot Topic are sponsoring a concert event featuring the artists iff if the Almost Alice soundtrack! It will be at Hollywood and Highland Center in L.A. on February 19 at 5 p.m. Plus, Tim Burton will introduce cast members and show off a sneak peek of the actual movie! Guests will also get to hang out in a virtual Wonderland on the third floor of the Hollywood and Highland Center, as it will be transformed into a full Alice in Wonderland-themed environment.

That sounds SO COOL. Too bad it's only in LA... but wait!! It's going to be streamed on UStream. I'll give you updates later.

Anne Hathaway Turned Down the "Alice" Role!!

Anne Hathaway, the woman who plays the White Queen(above) said that she actually turned down the part of Alice(!)- and wanted something sinister instead.

“The studio had the Alice script a long time ago and I was approached back then for the part of Alice. I considered it, but felt, what with The Princess Diaries, that I had been there, done that sort of pretty-girl-in-a-fairy-dress role. I told the studio, however, that if they found a director eventually, that I would be interested at a later date in playing the White Queen.

“When Tim came on board he had the cast he wanted and, of course, that didn’t include me. But the other actress who was marked had scheduling conflicts, so the studio piped up and put me forward. I talked on the phone with Tim and he really liked my take. I wanted the Queen to be a cross between Debbie Harry, Greta Garbo, David Bowie, with (a) little bit of the work of Dan Flavin thrown in for good measure.”

Read the entire article here.