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The colorful movie with plenty of special effects follows the
2010 box office hit "Alice in Wonderland", with Johnny Depp, Mia
Wasikowska and Helena Bonham Carter returning as the Mad Hatter,
Alice and the Red Queen, respectively.
The plot follows Alice, after a trip at sea, as she rushes to
reunite the Mad Hatter and his family.
"She's just spent two years traveling the world as the captain
of a ship and she's very empowered and very much knows who she
is," Wasikowska told Reuters in an interview in London.
Sacha Baron Cohen, known for his satirical characters such as
Ali G and fake Kazakh reporter Borat, is a new addition to the
cast, playing the tick-tocking Time.
"Essentially you're in a room with blue carpet everywhere and
there are a lot of people wearing blue one-piece suits made out
of spandex and you can't see their faces," Cohen said of working
on a film with plenty of computer-generated imagery.
"So, it's hard to sometimes concentrate and take it seriously
... Did I go mad? Yeah."
Alice's quest to help the Mad Hatter sees her come across the
Red Queen, for which Bonham Carter's head was again digitally
increased.
"She's a fun person to play ... Even the big head is great ...
And it's liberating to play somebody who is so direct and so
fantastically self-absorbed and narcissistic," Bonham Carter
told Reuters in a separate interview in Los Angeles.
"The downside is the shouting and ... how long it takes to get
ready, and two bald caps."
"Alice Through the Looking Glass" hits cinemas worldwide from
Wednesday.
(Reporting By Edward Baran; additional reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy
in Los Angeles; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian Editing by
Jeremy Gaunt)
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