What were the inspirations for Bowler Hat Guy?
This is Stephen Anderson’s vision of the villain. When he brought me on to do the villain I am sure it was because I had been doing the villains in my last couple of pictures. He had specific ideas about what this villain was. He said this character was integral to the movie and he was anything but ‘keeping looking forward’. He is stuck in time. The other thing that Stephen wanted was that the character ought to be a classic Disney villain, like Captain Hook. He should be a villain but charming and likeable at the same time. So at the beginning there is a feeling that you have kind of seen Bowler Hat Guy before. Then as the movie goes on you realize that this character is completely different. That was the twist on the character that Stephen wanted to ensure was there. When I started working on the character Stephen said it was important to understand that the character was something of a man-child. He was a full-grown man with the mentality of a child. So he said I should research cha
