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00:31It was a radical, radical book in its day, certainly. If it hadn't existed and you published it tomorrow, it
00:41would still be as radical, it would still be as abstract and bizarre and beautiful. It's just one of those
00:50special things.
00:53When you read the book as a child and then when you read it as an adult, you definitely see
00:57a different side to it.
00:59In this one, I think it's about growing up and working out who she is, Alice working out what she
01:05needs to do with her life and getting in touch with her own courage and doing what she is meant
01:11to be doing and not necessarily what society is.
01:14It looks absolutely gorgeous. I mean, it just looks beautiful.
01:17When you see all the visuals put together, you know, the parts that I've seen, they just kind of make
01:21your jaw drop. And he showed me pictures, but of course they were just kind of rough sketches and they've
01:26all been enhanced.
01:29He does have an amazing visual imagination. So the impact of things, I can't possibly guess that. So I was
01:34thinking, you know, I've got big head, big head, big wide, you know, and imagine that the pillars are pink
01:39and that's the frog.
01:40Like I seen a couple of bits when I was dubbing and I thought, I didn't realize how, you know,
01:45I thought, oh, it is funny me having a big head, you know, so I don't know the impact of
01:50things, the dramatic impact.
01:51It surprises me, but at the same time it doesn't, because I watched him, you know, go through the process
01:56and work like a madman.
02:00He says, I'm investigating things that begin with the letter M. That's what sort of set me out on the
02:06search for the hatter.
02:08And it led me to the hatter's disease, which was mercury poisoning, which was very common back in the 19th
02:13century.
02:14It would manifest itself in different ways, you know, a very unpleasant way. So that became kind of the basis
02:21for the hatter.
02:22And also just mixing up those multiple personalities. So again, it wasn't just a weirdo that you could see his
02:28pain, you could see his sort of sadness, you could see his, you could see all the elements that kind
02:33of go into every one of us, but not so extremely.
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