Q: Your upcoming Alice looks like it might be a zaidi adult interpretation, considering she's meant to be 19...
A: With Alice, the imagery has been around for so long, it's so iconic. The problem with the vitabu is that they're episodic and kind of bila mpangilio events that the sinema have always suffered from the idea of a passive little girl going, "Oh, that's weird. Oh, I'm shrinking! Oh, I'm growing! I say!" So the goal was to try and take that imagery and be true to it but make it a new movie. So she's older, which puts in context. That's what's always been missing.
I think, with all these stories,...
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