

Gap-toothed and leering, at times he looks like Madonna after sticking a fork in a toaster. Bill Goodykoontz of The Arizona Republic said that "Depp is exactly what you'd expect, which is a good thing. Hoberman of The Village Voice simply referred to Depp's Hatter as "amusing". ĭavid Edelstein of New York Magazine remarked that while the elements of the character suggested by Depp don't entirely come together, "Depp brings an infectious summer-stock zest to everything he does: I picture him digging through trunks of old costumes and trying on this torn vest and that dusty cravat and sitting in front of his dressing-room mirror playing with makeup and bulging his eyes and sticking out his tongue." J. Illusionary dancer David "Elsewhere" Bernal doubled for Depp during the "Futterwacken" sequence near the end of the film. Nesbitt character) reflecting a darker, more dangerous personality.

The Hatter is "made up of different people and their extreme sides", with a gentle voice much like the character's creator Lewis Carroll reflecting the lighter personality and with a Scottish Glaswegian accent (which Depp modeled after Gregor Fisher's Rab C. In an interview with Depp, the character was paralleled to "a mood ring, his emotions are very close to the surface". Depp and Burton decided that the Hatter's clothes, skin, hair, personality and accent would change throughout the film to reflect his emotions. and it was coming out through his hair, through his fingernails and eyes". In a lot of versions it's a very one-note kind of character and you know goal was to try and bring out a human side to the strangeness of the character." The Hatter's orange hair is an allusion to the mercury poisoning suffered by milliners who used mercury to cure felt Depp believes that the character "was poisoned. Mia Wasikowska, who plays Alice in the film, said that the Hatter and Alice "both feel like outsiders and feel alone in their separate worlds, and have a special bond and friendship." Burton explained that Depp "tried to find a grounding to the character. Many people have praised Depp's performance. The character has been highly well received by audiences. Rhys Ifans plays Zanik, the Hatter's father, while Simone Kirby plays Tyva, the Hatter's mother with Joe Hurst, Oliver Hawkes, Siobhan Redmond, Frederick Warder, Eve Hedderwick Turner, and Tom Godwin playing members of his extended family, each being Bim (Oliver Hawkes playing a younger version, as an unspecified member of the Hightopp family), Bumalig (the Hatter's aunt), Poomally (the Hatter's uncle), Baloo and Pimlick (the Hatter's cousins) respectively. The Hatter's backstory is also explored in the film. At the end of the film, the Hightopp family turns out to be alive, and he is reunited with them. For the majority of the film, Alice Kingsleigh travels through time (with an object called the "Chronosphere") attempting to rescue the Hatter's family from death, as he appears to be dying. The attack occurred shortly after his father, Zanik, a hat retailer, seemed to reject Tarrant's gift of a hat creation.

In the beginning of the film, Tarrant is in poor health because his family is missing following the Attack of the Jabberwocky. Main article: Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016 film)
