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The official photo release on Facebook'Alice in Wonderland': Johnny Depp first-look official photo
By Hanh Nguyen
January 6, 2010 2:03 PM
Johnny Depp is the maddest of them all.Disney released the first official photo of Depp as "Alice in Wonderland's" The Mad Hatter, and he's just as scary as when we saw him in the previous one-sheet images.
Trust director Tim Burton to make the twisted classic tale even more deliciously disturbing with his take -- a grown-up Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returns to the fantastical world she first stumbled upon as a young girl and reunites with her friends such as the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and -dum, the Dormouse, Chesire Cat and the Mad Hatter.
Check him out:
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Hmm, are those knights out of focus in the background? It's hard to tell. The action in Lewis Carroll's original novels corresponded to the moves in a chess game, so many of the pieces (e.g. the White Queen) appear in the story.
The 3-D "Alice," hits theaters on March 5, also stars Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover and Matt Lucas, in addition to the voice talents of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Christopher Lee, Paul Whitehouse and Barbara Windsor.
From the LA TimesHero Complex
For your inner fanboyJohnny Depp explains how he picked his poison with the Mad Hatter
December 24, 2009 | 10:17 amWe have big plans here at the Hero Complex for covering "Alice in Wonderland" and today we have an early exclusive as Rachel Abramowitz talks with star Johnny Depp about the very specific madness of the Mad Hatter.
Johnny Depp November 2009
When he takes on a role, Johnny Depp often paints a watercolor portrait of the still-forming character to help find his face and personality. After putting the finishing touches on his painting for “Alice in Wonderland,” Depp looked down at the Mad Hatter staring back at him from the canvas and giggled.
“I was thinking,” the actor said, “‘Oh my God, this one will get me fired!’”
It’s hard to imagine any pink slips in the future for Depp, who arguably reigns as the biggest movie star in the world at the moment. But his version of the Mad Hatter for Tim Burton’s interpretation of “Alice in Wonderland” has stirred both interest and, early on, some skepticism from literary purists who say it’s a far cry from the character as described in Lewis Carroll’s 19th century writings or from images in the collective public imagination shaped by years of stage productions and the 1951 Walt Disney animated classic.
Alice In Wonderland Mad Hatter Depp’s extreme vision for the character -- who arrives in theaters on March 5 -- creates yet another vivid screen persona for the Hollywood chameleon who has played Sweeney Todd, Willie Wonka, Edward Scissorhands and a certain scoundrel named Jack Sparrow. The 46-year-old actor said his Hatter’s springy mass of tangerine hair became a particularly important detail because of one of the suspected origins of the term “Mad as a hatter.”
In the 18th and 19th centuries, mercury was used in the manufacture of felt, and when used in hats it could be absorbed through the skin and affect the mind through maladies such as Korsakoff's syndrome. Hatters and mill workers often fell victim to mercury poisoning which, in Carroll’s time, had an orange tint -- hence Depp’s interest in adding brushstrokes of that particular watercolor to his portrait.
“I think [the Mad Hatter] was poisoned -- very, very poisoned,” Depp said. “And I think it just took affect in all his nerves. It was coming out through his hair and through his fingernails, through his eyes”
Depp’s research also took him down some unexpected literary rabbit holes with the writings of Carroll.
“There’s a great line in the book where the Hatter says, ‘I’m investigating things that begin with the letter ‘M,’” Depp said. “So I started kind of doing a little researching, reading a bunch. And you start thinking about the letter ‘M’ and Hatters and the term ‘Mad as a hatter’ and ‘mercury.’”
Depp was also intrigued by one of the Mad Hatter’s nonsense questions during a dizzying tea party: “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” “I think he is referencing Edgar Allan Poe,” Depp said, referring to the haunted author of “The Raven,” which was published in 1845, two decades before Carroll’s surreal tale reached the public. Depp let the two ideas germinate in his head and it informed his own Hatter concoction.Burton, whose background in art and animation is well known, also draws his characters, and when he and his star compared their handiwork they grinned like the Cheshire Cat. "They were,” Depp says, “very close."
-- Rachel Abramowitz
The Post & Courier has a nice story with some quotes from Johnny including:
In the 18th and 19th centuries, mercury was used in the manufacture of felt, and when used in hats it could be absorbed through the skin and affect the mind through maladies such as Korsakoff's syndrome. Hatters and mill workers often fell victim to mercury poisoning which, in Carroll's time, had an orange tint, hence Depp's interest in adding brushstrokes of that particular watercolor to his portrait."I think (the Mad Hatter) was poisoned -- very, very poisoned," Depp said. "And I think it just took affect in all his nerves. It was coming out through his hair and through his fingernails, through his eyes"
Depp's research also took him down some unexpected literary rabbit holes with the writings of Carroll. "There's a great line in the book where the Hatter says, 'I'm investigating things that begin with the letter 'M,' " Depp said. "So I started kind of doing a little researching, reading a bunch. And you start thinking about the letter 'M' and Hatters and the term 'Mad as a hatter' and 'mercury.' "
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