![]() After Beaumont retired from acting in 2005, Hynden Walch has now taken over the role of Alice for Beaumont and has been her current voice actress since. ![]() ![]() This enabled keeping the wonder and childlike quality of a young girl while allowing for some maturity. This was performed by Beaumont, the voice of Alice, who was drawn looking a bit older than her 7-year-old storybook counterpart. Like many Disney animated heroines, Alice was portrayed by a real-life actress as reference material for the animators. For the voice of Alice, Walt Disney wanted one "that would be English enough to satisfy British audiences and preserve the feeling of an English literary classic, but not so English that it would put off American audiences." He found that in the young actress Kathryn Beaumont, and within hours of her audition, Disney gave Beaumont the part. ‘I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think-’ (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn’t sound at all the right word) ‘-but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know.Walt Disney himself had specific instructions for how Alice should sound. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think-’ (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) ‘-yes, that’s about the right distance-but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?’ (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.) ‘I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Would the fall never come to an end! ‘I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?’ she said aloud. ![]()
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