Depp steals Paradis’s Mad Hatter teeth idea
Vanessa Paradis has revealed that Johnny Depp was inspired to give his version of the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s ‘Alice In Wonderland’ a gap in his teeth because of her.
However, actor Depp said that he had not intentionally based the Hatter’s teeth on his partner but revealed he does like her gappy smile.
[Laughs] Well, maybe on some level… The French call the teeth with the gap in the middle ‘les dents de bonheur’ – ‘the teeth of happiness’,” Depp said.
“They’re like good-luck teeth, you know? You know what I had in my head initially? I’m so used to her teeth – I think they’re so sweet and everything – but I was actually thinking of Terry-Thomas. I had that kind of Terry-Thomas thing in my head.”
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