The Mia Wasikowska interview for the Alice Through the Looking Glass movie took place at the luxurious five-star Montage Beverly Hills. Located in the heart of Golden Triangle, its elegance and vintage Hollywood decor sets the mood for talent interviews.
And as far as moods go, it’s hard to not be excited when you’re among 24 of your blogging colleagues, but add that to the excitement of interviewing star talent for one of your favorite films on the premiere day and the feels are pretty epic.
We screened the Alice Through the Looking Glass movie the previous evening at Walt Disney Studios. You’ll have to wait for my review on that tomorrow, but I can tell you for sure it’s awesome, and it certainly left us all with great questions for Mia.
Alice Through the Looking Glass movie is out Friday May 27 watch the trailer here:
About Mia Wasikowska
Mia Wasikowska, who starred as Alice in Alice in Wonderland (2010), is as graceful as she is pretty. I love her hair growing in and where it comes to her chin, it totally frames her face perfectly. She lit up the room with her porcelain skin and big smile, and was very much a pleasure to interview.
My Mia Wasikowska Interview for the Alice Through the Looking Glass Movie
I think once you get to see the film, you’ll appreciate the details of this interview much more. So without further ado, our Mia Wasikowska interview for the Alice Through the Looking Glass movie.
Interpreting the Film
Mia on her favorite scene:
I really like when I see the Hatter in the marketplace, and I’m trying to explain to him that we’ve met, but when he’s older, and I’m younger. I think that’s so sweet. It has such an essence of the original book to it, that whole abstract, quite bizarre nature of it.
Mia on Alice’s new found independence:
I really love Alice and I like seeing her journey. I think in the first film, she was quite, kind of still a little uncomfortable and trying to bridge that gap between knowing who she is on the inside and then being able to be that on the outside. And I think that was sort of her journey in the first film. And then in this film, she’s just spent three years as the captain of her ship, and she has a really strong sense of who she is. She comes back into this story with a really strong sense of that despite the fact that expectations of her are low in her society. She manages to sort of hold on to that sense of being worth more than what people want of her, which I think is really great and important for young girls and boys everywhere.
Mia on meaningful quotes from the film:
There are so many, but I do like the message from Time, “You can’t change the past, but you can learn from it.” I think even though we kind of know that, I think to really deeply understanding that is really important. It’s the best way to kind of live your life and be in the moment, to accept what’s happened in the past and move on into the future openly and not be sort of fixated on trying to change something that’s already happened, which I feel like we can get a bit caught up in.
Mia on her relationships with characters:
I like a few of them. I do like the relationship with Alice and Time. I think Sasha plays a confident idiot very well. (Laughing) He’s this powerful old loser in a way, and Alice is the only one that kind of isn’t scared enough to pull him out on how he just doesn’t make any sense at all. I like that she sort of has no fear in approaching kind of anyone, but, especially him, because he’s gotten such a strong ego.
I also really like the scenes with the Hatter. When you’re filming a film like this, and it’s green screen for five months you spend a lot of time running around and jumping around. And so obviously the more enjoyable days was when it was those lovely scenes between the two of us, and that was really nice.
Mia on Alice as a role model:
I think just sort of what I said before of that, she seems to have this innate sense of who she is and even though she’s got all these challenges and people always kind of questioning her, she manages to hold on to that really strong sense of herself and you know, even when she goes to the ball with the oriental costume and, ah, she just doesn’t’ even seem to notice the judgment coming off of everybody else and that sort of just seems to roll off her back. So, I guess just that sense of not caring so much about what other people think is really important.
Mia on learning from her role as Alice:
I guess you learn a lot of stamina and I think the film world in general, sort of what I’ve learned about it is the perception is quite different to the reality of it. So I find that quite interesting. Filming a film like this is great, and really fun, but it is definitely a lot of hard work and a lot of very long days.