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JOHNNY DEPP was so desperate to team up with his movie collaborator TIM BURTON for ALICE IN WONDERLAND – he would have happily played the female lead.

Depp and Burton struck up a friendship after the Hollywood hunk appeared in 1990’s Edward Scissorhands, and they have made a series of movies together over the last 20 years, including Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

And Depp insists he would have played Alice in Burton’s take on the Lewis Carroll classic just to get the chance to work with his pal again.

He tells Parade.com, “To be honest, he could have asked me to play Alice and I would have said yes – I would have done whatever character he wanted. The fact that it was the Mad Hatter was a bonus because it was a great challenge.

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