Here’s an interview Mia Wasikowska did with the australian SMH. It also features a new portrait shoot outtake.

MIA WASIKOWSKA, the middle child of two Canberra photographers, is about to be unleashed upon the world with all the publicity muscle Disney can muster.

The pixieish 20-year-old stars as Alice in Tim Burton’s new 3D movie adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, with Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.

“He was fantastic,” Wasikowska said of Depp yesterday. “He plays these crazy characters but he gives them this core humanity and heart, which is why … they have a gravity to them. You end up … caring about them. I think that’s why he’s [such a] genius.”

While other characters from Lewis Carroll’s book appear (including Tweedledum and Tweedledee, played by Matt Lucas from Little Britain) the film’s story is different. Alice is 19, returning to Wonderland to find her feet as an adult. Helena Bonham Carter’s evil red queen has taken over the place.