Johnny Depp wants to play Alice in Tim Burton’s upcoming “Alice in Wonderland”
With Johnny Depp having starred in six recent films directed by Tim Burton, who is married to Helena Bonham Carter, she could be forgiven for complaining that her husband spends more time with his favourite actor than he does with her. Indeed, the 41-year-old actress admits that she had to turn to Depp to influence her husband on the set of Sweeney Todd, which Burton directs and in which she co-stars.
“I learnt to always take an idea to Johnny first, then he’d mention it to Tim, and suddenly he was all over the idea,” she told Mandrake at the film’s premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square. Burton, 49, with whom Helena has recently had her second child, “ganged up on me all the time”, she adds. “Johnny wasn’t so bad, he’d take my advice.”
If Depp has his way, he will soon be spending even more time with her husband. The 44-year-old actor says he would make a superb lead in Burton’s forthcoming new version of Alice in Wonderland. “I’d like to have a go at it, if Tim lets me,” he told me. “I could be the first male Alice. It would certainly give it a surreal edge.”
If anyone could do it, it’d be Johnny.
