Current Projects

HP: The Deathly Hallows Pt II (2011)
Role: Bellatrix Lestrange
Status: Out Now
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Dark Shadows (2012)
Role: Dr. Julia Hoffman
Status: Post-production
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Great Expectations (2012)
Role: Miss Havisham
Status: Filming
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Les Miserables (2012)
Role: Madame Thenardier
Status: Pre-production
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The Lone Ranger (2012)
Role: Rumoured
Status: Pre-production
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“Maurice” Screen Captures

Thanks to Ann, we have screen captures of Helena from her brief uncredited appearance as Lady at Cricket Match from 1987 film Maurice, which starred Hugh Grant. Enjoy!

By Celyn • November 10, 2011 • Gallery • Comments: 0

Helena accepts Role Model of the Year Award in absentia

When we heard Helena Bonham Carter would be unable to attend the Bazaar Women of the Year Awards last night, our hearts sank a little – however, Helena sent a little piece of herself to the glittering ceremony at Claridge’s.

Due to filming commitments – Helena is currently starring as Miss Haversham in the BBC’s eagerly anticipated Great Expectations remake – the BAFTA award-winning King’s Speech actress was not able to accept her award for Role Model of the Year in person but sent co-star Sally Hawkin’s with a letter to read:

Dear all,

I will still be Miss Havishaming as you glug your drinks and I’ll have to be up at 5.00 again to get the bridal gear on in order that they can set fire to me (do you know the story?). So Tuesday’s a big day and every bride must get her beauty sleep.

Anyway, please know that under any other circumstances I would have been there and thank you for this compliment. “Role Model of The Year” sounds fantastically heroic. I have no idea what I have done to fulfill this description. It reminds me of a letter I got from a young female fan in which she enumerates “25 things Helena Bonham Carter has taught her”. It starts with things like “dreaming big”, “believing in yourself”, “creating your own style not other peoples”, and that “it’s socially acceptable to wear several hats all at once.” But the one I loved best was No. 25 which was “it’s ok to have short thick legs”.

Now, I think if I’ve helped make someone love their short thick legs then – yes – I DO feel I’ve been heroic. So thank you so much. I do deserve this.

Much love from Miss Havisham World. She doesn’t – after all – get out that much.

And this is why she is our Role Model of the Year. Helena, Bazaar loves you.

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By Celyn • November 09, 2011 • Awards & Nominations • Comments: 0

First Look at Helena in “Great Expectations”

The first two stills of Helena as Miss Havisham from the upcoming adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations have been released online! Helena looks amazingly beautiful and eerie as the tragic character – check out both images in full in the gallery!

By Celyn • November 04, 2011 • Film, Gallery • Comments: 0

Helena Bonham Carter Offered ‘Akira’ Role

Based on the collective online response to Warner Bros.’ recent decision to greenlight a live-action reworking of Akira, you’d be forgiven for believing that literally no one on the planet (other than a few studio heads) actually thinks this project is a good idea.

TRON: Legacy‘s leading man Garret Hedlund is – for better or for worse – said to be the top contender to headline the new Akira movie, which will be an Americanized take on the acclaimed Japanese comic book/animated movie created by Katsuhiro Otomo. However, he could potentially be surrounded by some well-respected acting talent.

Twitch has it on good authority that Gary Oldman and Helena Bonham Carter have been offered roles in director Jaume Collet-Serra‘s Akira remake. Oldman is reportedly being eyed for the role of “The Colonel” – a part previously rumored to have been offered to another beloved actor, Morgan Freeman – and Carter is apparently wanted to play a character known as Lady Miyako (in Otomo’s original comic/movie, at least).

Carter is somewhat similar to Oldman: her filmography as a whole is very strong, save for a handful of big-budget missteps here and there (ex: Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes). However, she has somewhat of a busy schedule right now, seeing how she’s currently appearing in Burton’s Dark Shadows, Mike Newell’s Great Expectations – and is rumored to costar in Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables adaptation next spring – around the same time that Akira is expected to begin production.

With all that said: bringing Oldman and Carter onboard for your film is rarely (if ever) a bad move; it could also be a turn for the Akira remake which won’t simply infuriate fans.

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By Celyn • October 24, 2011 • Film, News • Comments: 0

The First Actresses: Helena Bonham Carter Responds

When did you decide that you would like to become an actress?

I remember wanting to become an actress since about five years old. I blame a lot of it on an actress friend called Lisa Harrow who swept into our lives about then. She seemed impossibly glamorous and beautiful and both my brothers and father had massive crushes on her. I remember thinking whatever she is doing she has got it right. I still wonder today if Lisa had been a plumber, my life would have taken a different turn. Later on, when I was thirteen my father became dreadfully ill and it was then that I looked up theatrical agents in the yellow pages and phoned one up and got on her books. It might have been a curious reaction to have when your father was critically ill in intensive care, but looking back with the long, birdseye view that time can give, I can see it made perfect sense: I did it in attempt to escape and create my own reality, which is what acting can be – a loss of yourself into somebody else. A holiday from myself. What I can’t get over is that I have been paid very good money taking all these holidays.

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