Alice in Wonderlands White Queen based on Nigella Lawson, reveals Tim Burton

By Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor Published: 2:10PM GMT twenty-four February 2010

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Tim Burton, the film"s American director, pronounced he formed the impression on the made at home enchantress after examination her radio cookery shows. As played by Anne Hathaway, the Queen has a Stepford Wives-esque grin and is a dab palm in the kitchen.

"There"s this unequivocally pleasing in progress show host in England declared Nigella Lawson and I sensitively had her as my picture for this character," Burton told the Los Angeles Times.

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"She"s unequivocally pleasing and she does all this cooking, but afterwards there"s this glimmer in her eye and when you see it you go, "Oh, whoa, she"s similar to really... nuts". I mean, in a great way. Well, maybe, I don"t know."

Hathaway pronounced her impression has dark depths. "She is kind of darling on the outward and has attempted unequivocally tough to turn this good, roughly over-the-top, certain quadruped but underneath she kind of has a ruthless streak."

Lawson, 50, has been called the "queen of food porn" but once pronounced she was worried with her image, declaring: "I don"t wish to be a little blow-up sex doll in the kitchen."

The film, a 3-D extraganza starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, visitor Mia Wasikowska as Alice, and Burton"s British partner, Helena Bonham Carter, as the Red Queen.

The universe premiere takes place in London tonight at the Odeon in Leicester Square. Unfortunately for cinemagoers, it will be the initial and last time that an Odeon entertainment will shade the film. The sequence is boycotting the movie in criticism at Disney"s plan to recover the DVD twelve weeks after the motion picture release, rather than the normal 17. Other bondage have concluded to show it.

Burton"s journey is the ultimate instrumentation of Lewis Carroll"s fast tale. Walt Disney expelled an charcterised version of the story in 1951, with Alice uttered by the British kid singer Kathryn Beaumont.