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And I pitched it not to Brad [Bird], but to Tim Burton and [writer] Linda Woolverton at the same time. They were just finishing up on Alice In Wonderland.
I worked two weeks on that and there was some studio nonsense. Basically they wanted the character that I was playing to be younger, much younger. We were doing this prologue to the film and they wanted 10 rather than 16, but they waited two weeks into filming before making that decision.
And I pitched it not to Brad [Bird], but to Tim Burton and [writer] Linda Woolverton at the same time. They were just finishing up on Alice In Wonderland.
I worked two weeks on that and there was some studio nonsense. Basically they wanted the character that I was playing to be younger, much younger. We were doing this prologue to the film and they wanted 10 rather than 16, but they waited two weeks into filming before making that decision.