אגב, אלן ריקמן דיבר בראיון קצת על
הסרט. הוא לא אמר משהו מיוחד בכלל. הוא סתם קשקש שזו הפעם הראשונה שהוא משתתף בדבר כזה, שהוא מתרגש ושהוא ראה את הלנה על הסט.
הנה מה שהוא אמר באנגלית למי שרוצה: “I’m a voice, but I have been filmed because it’s my face who will be on the end of something that will be the caterpillar. So it’s the first time that they’ve mixed three disciplines, I suppose — live action, animation, and stop motion. I think I’m part of the animation bit, and I saw Helena [Bonham-Carter] and Crispin Glover yesterday. They’re a mixture of the two, actually, because there’s Helena in a costume and in makeup but her head is going to be made three times bigger than it actually is on top of the costume.” “I don’t know what it (the Caterpillar) looks like, so I’ve only done the first stage of it, which is them recording me saying these lines quite badly. Then, somewhere down the line, they’ll have animated it and I’ll redo it