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Thursday, February 25th 2010, 3:05 PM
A is for Alice, as in "Alice in Wonderland.
A is for Alice, as in "Alice in Wonderland."
And it's the grade Johnny Depp's kids give their father's new film, according to People.com.
Lily-Rose, 10, and Jack, 7, got a sneak peek at the big-budget 3-D fantasy at a screening across the pond.
"My kids actually saw the film because I send them out there in the frontlines," Depp told reporters Thursday at a press conference at London's Dorchester Hotel.
"They saw it – and they loved it."
Depp plays the Mad Hatter, who wears a top hat and kilt ("I love wearing skirts," Depp confessed) in the film, out March 5.
The movie, based on the Lewis Carroll classics, reunites him with frequent collaborator, director Tim Burton.
He's a filmmaker who likes to pack his movies with eye-popping, often dark and scary visuals.
"Alice" is no exception in this PG flick.
But Depp's tots were unfazed.
"They loved every character," said the actor. "They weren't freaked out by it whatsoever."
Moviegoers might be a little bit freaked to know that Helena Bonham Carter, who's married to Burton and plays the noggin-choppin' Red Queen in the film, found inspiration for the raging royal in their 2-year-old daughter, Nell.
The actress confessed to the London Telegraph that Nell has "no sympathy for any other living creature. No empathy, just commands. She just bosses us around - dictatorship. No please, no thank you. 'Mummy come here' 'Mummy go' 'Mummy! Watch telly.'"
"An another toddler quality - it's all about me, it's all about her, never considers us, ask, ask, ask. So the toddler thing was a big inspiration."
Bonham Carter isn't sure how the couple's 6-year-old son Billy will take to seeing her as a monstrous monarch with a massive head.
"Billy's going to see it tonight," she said. "It could be a disaster because he's 6 and he's sensitive. [But] he saw it being made so he knows it's pretend."
