At the risk of embarrassing him, I've always admired Tim Burton for his commitment to his vision and the impossibility of compromise and for doing exactly what he wanted, the way he wanted in his own very unique way. No, truly he is a mad person in some ways but it's a madness that works for him, obviously. Johnny Depp: Tim Burton because he gives me a job sometimes. Who is your favorite mad person in the world, and why? not to use the word luck again, but I feel so lucky to get away with it because each time out of the gate there's always somebody that comes around and says: "Oh Jesus, what is he doing now?" In a weird way, you feel like you've sort of infiltrated the enemy camp on some level and you made it through unscathed. I felt there should be some other side of him. He shouldn't be very simply throwing a rubber ball into a room and letting it go nuts, just for laughs and stuff. Johnny Depp: I felt very strongly about how he should look, and what his behavior was like. Where does the Mad Hatter fit in amongst all of the characters you've played? So, that was what I tried to do within the scenes and whenever I could find the right moments for it.
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So, one minute you're at full capacity rage, the next minute you've dropped to some kind of horrific tailspin of fear, and then you go to some great height of levity. And then in terms of my approach to the character was just trying to find those places inside. There was also an orange tint to the actual stuff, which is where all the orange bits come from. Some would develop Tourettes style syndrome, some would develop a personality disorder. The poison would manifest itself in different ways. because they use this very toxic substance to glue the hats together, which involved a lot of mercury and ended up poisoning them heavily. I found this thing called The Hatter's Disease, basically.
So, what I did was to start doing research on hatters. You go through Alice and you go through The Looking Glass and there's never an answer for it. Things like I'm investigating things that begin with the letter 'M'. There were these weird little cryptic bits that Lewis Carroll dropped in there. In terms of the look of the character, some of the early stuff that Tim Burton and I spoke about actually came right out of the book. Johnny Depp: Well, they're both kind of related in a way. How did you arrive at the look of the character and internally prepare for the role of The Mad Hatter? So, I wanted to go extremely dark and dangerous with the Scottish accent. Tim Burton and I early on were talking about how this guy was actually made up of different people and he would be the extreme sides of these people. Johnny Depp: Well, the Scottish accent is something that I did mess around with on Finding Neverland. Why in the playing of the Mad Hatter did you opt for a Scottish accent at times? And how was wearing a kilt for the big battle scene? Up first is Johnny Depp, who played the Mad Hatter.
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In the first 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. Johnny Depp is the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland
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