LITTLE BRITAIN'S Matt Lucas is Tweedledee & Tweedledum in Burton's WONDERLAND

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

I actually heard this on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on Friday but then totally forgot to write about it until I stumbled across a reminder at /film. Little Britain star Matt Lucas has revealed that he will be playing both Tweedledee & Tweedledum inthe Disney 3-D animated ALICE IN WONDERLAND for what will probably be a motion captured performance. The two fat twin brothers are of course virtually one in the same, they compliment but never contradict each other. Outfit wise, they aren't all that dissimilar to the outfit that Lucas wears as "the only gay in the village" on Little Britain, and you can certainly see why Lucas was cast. I believe the show has recently debuted on HBO in the U.S, so you may be aware now of how camp, loud and physical Lucas is as a performer... Mia Wasikowska (as Alice), Johnny Depp (as The Mad Hatter) and Helena Bonham Carter (as Queen of Hearts) are already on board Tim Burton's film, with filming under-way in Cornwall.