Was there a sense of wanting to do this for your daughter, because it’s Oz and you get to dress up and be the good witch?
It was at the forefront of my mind to do something that felt more holistic and it didn’t feel like my life was so separated into work over here and then family over there. I wanted to merge them a bit, and this was a really great opportunity to do that, and they provided a playground environment for my daughter to come and visit and everybody made her feel very welcome.
Does she say she wants to be like you when she grows up?
We’ll see what she wants to do when she grows up. I am very excited to see what she wants to do when she grows up. The world is all possibility for her right now.
And what did she think of mom as the witch?
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She really liked it. She really liked the long pretty hair. Doing this film was like a love letter for my daughter. This movie was made for her. I mean, I haven’t even seen it, but you know, that was the spirit in my heart when I made it, but it’s something that she can be privy to, so she was so thrilled. It was a great place to be a kid. She went to school, we lived there for six months, so she did half of a year of school there, she would get out from school and then come visit mom at work and she was allowed to bring friends onto the set, and got to go through the hair and makeup and wardrobe and go visit the animals. There was a big fun pit that we would go do our stunts in sometimes, and so Matilda would go play in the fun pit, and she sat next to Sam [Raimi] in a director’s chair and with Sam, holding his hand [laughs].
How did you create Glinda, the good witch’s personality? It’s a little bit hard to do research when you are playing an unreal character but I always like to spend some time in the months ahead kind
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