Award-winning British theater icon Mark Rylance is reportedly in negotiations to portray the father of Johnny Depp’s Mad Hatter character in the upcoming Alice in Wonderland sequel. His role as “Zanik Hightopp”—not, disappointingly, “Dad Hatter”—is described as someone who “cannot hide his bright-colored hair beneath a top hat.” In other words, his character is already about as developed as Depp’s Mad Hatter.