The Suzanne Todd 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.
The mood in the room was at an all time high. When you do what we do and you’re among 24 of your blogging colleagues who are all pumped and grateful to be able to interview blockbuster filmmakers, you’re on cloud nine. Add that to meeting one of the most gracious and inspiring women in Hollywood, it was a pretty epic interview. Held on the day before the film’s premiere day and following our screening at Walt Disney Studios [review here], we were elated to meet the producer who not only holds thirty years of film experience, but is a single mom too!
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About Suzanne Todd
Suzanne Todd holds production creds a mile long to include Bad Moms, Austin Powers, G.I. Jane and Alice in Wonderland, to name a few. So not only is she rocking the blockbuster scene, but she’s totally doing it as a single mom! I’m like whoa, this one is badass! I was immediately intrigued, empowered and inspired all at the same time. Being a single mom myself, I am officially naming Suzanne my new hero.
And let me add, Suzanne is incredibly sweet, down-to-earth and the kind of person who enjoys speaking to people about her work and her life as a single mother of three. When talent and filmmakers are eager to connect, it makes everyone’s work so enjoyable.
Producer Suzanne Todd Interview for Alice Through the Looking Glass
As if I wasn’t already over the moon with Suzanne after finding out she is a single mom, she shocked the room when she gave her Alice in Wonderland Irregular Choice heels to Keri from She Saved (one of the bloggers). Mind you these heels sell at over $200 and sold out in London in 10 minutes.
She did this with a little back story.
Suzanne’s dear friend Maria Shriver has a charity called Move for Minds, which raises awareness and money to support research on women for Alzheimer’s Disease. Keri had made a generous donation prior to this interview in honor of her grandma. It got on Suzanne’s radar and she was so touched by Keri’s donation that she gave her these special heels.
We. All. Died. What a remarkable gesture. I’m telling you, Suzanne is truly an amazing woman.
So let’s talk about the interview shall we… Here are some of my favorite bits from that morning.
On Memorable moments with Johnny and Sasha:
Sasha talked about how when he’s developing his character, that the costume is really, really important for him. And when we got into it with Colleen, our genius talented Colleen Atwood, Sasha played so many interesting characters before that there was certain things he wanted to stay away from. Like he didn’t want to do anything he had done before, so then it was kind of this process of elimination.
The one thing he really, really wanted to do was wear tights.
Which Colleen and I thought was so funny, and I didn’t totally understand it, but I went to the first costume fitting and I saw him in the tights. And it was like, of course, because his legs are ridiculous. And I was like, he has like two spider legs where literally like his thigh is the same size as his ankle, which if you look closely in the movie, you’ll see.
I love that Sasha understood the ridiculousness, the skinniness of his legs, and that’s why he wanted those little pantaloons with the tights. Then you know under that big hat, he has, you know—we call it a man bun. At one point, we had discovered this really funny Instagram feed that’s called Man Buns of Disneyland. So it’s only pictures of dudes with man buns at Disneyland. And we were joking leading up to the movie that we kept saying we wanted to get some Sasha pictures put together like he was at Disneyland, so that Time could be in Man Buns of Disneyland, because we love that feed.
With Johnny, obviously we weren’t inventing a new character. It wasn’t something I was thinking about the first day that Johnny was working and had come and gone through the makeup and the wig and the contacts and everything.
We were doing a scene and I just remember the first time he opened his m