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"Coraline director Henry Selick has said that Teri Hatcher found it &amp;#039;difficult to be mean&amp;#039; when voicing the animated film. Selick told DS that the Desperate Housewives star found some aspects of her stop-motion character more challenging than others. &amp;quot;Teri&amp;#039;s fantastic. She has a lot of range. The main thing with Teri was that it was difficult for her to be mean, because she has a great daughter and could never be that way to her own daughter,&amp;quot; Selick explained. The filmmaker, who has also directed The Nightmare Before Christmas and James And The Giant Peach, added that Hatcher eventually came to enjoy voicing her evil on-screen alter ego. &amp;quot;She was ready to take charge of the Other Mother at her most wicked and most evil,&amp;quot; he commented. &amp;quot;I think that was the most fun for her.&amp;quot; Coraline, about a young girl who steps through a door into an alternate version of her own home, is in cinemas now. &amp;gt; Click here to read our interview with Coraline&amp;#039;s Henry Selick and Neil Gaiman "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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