2010-02-05 13:21:18 -

ANNE HATHAWAY turned down the title role in TIM BURTON's new ALICE IN WON= DERLAND movie - because she was fed up with playing a "pretty girl in a f= airy dress." The actress was asked to star as Alice

in the upcoming fantasy film but= opted instead to play the White Queen - because she had previously playe= d a pretty protagonist in The Princess Diaries movies which launched her = career.
The role of Alice eventually went to Australian newcomer Mia Wasikowska= , but Hathaway has no regrets about her decision.
She tells Britain's GQ magazine, "The studio had the Alice script a lon= g time ago and I was approached back then for the part of Alice. I consid= ered it, but felt, what with The Princess Diaries, that I had been there,= done that sort of pretty-girl-in-a-fairy-dress role. I told the studio, = however, that if they found a director eventually, that I would be intere= sted at a later date in playing the White Queen.
"When Tim came on board he had the cast he wanted and, of course, that = didn't include me. But the other actress who was marked had scheduling co= nflicts, so the studio piped up and put me forward. I talked on the phone= with Tim and he really liked my take. I wanted the Queen to be a cross b= etween Debbie Harry, Greta Garbo, David Bowie, with (a) little bit of the= work of Dan Flavin thrown in for good measure." And the 27 year old is confident cinema-goers will love Burton's interp= retation of the Lewis Carroll classic, adding, "I'm not sure how much I'm= supposed to tell you but no one's given me my marching orders as yet. It= 's not exactly Alice in Wonderland, nor Through The Looking Glass. Tim ha= s Alice come back to Wonderland - but ten years later."