Helena Bonham Carter will feature on Vogue UK
Posted by Claudia on May 4, 2012 under Magazines & Scans,Photoshoots & Portraits with 1 comments
Helena will be featured in Vogue UK June 2012. Here a little preview of what it’ll look like.
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Helena Bonham Carter features in Interview Magazine
Posted by Claudia on May 4, 2012 under Articles,Photoshoots & Portraits with 0 comments
In May issue Helena Bonham Carter is gonna feature, not sure if cover or just an article inside. Here is a preview of the shoot.
My son, Billy, would ask, ‘Do you have to be the witch or the queen tomorrow?’ I thought, Well, that’s pretty much my life.
In A Room with a View (1985), 19-year-old Helena Bonham Carter gave an indelible performance as Lucy Honeychurch, E.M. Forrester’s pensive heroine who chooses between love and propriety in Edwardian England. So perfectly did the striking young actress-with her wide eyes, dark tresses, and milky skin-bring to life such literary characters as Lucy (not to mention tragic teenagers Lady Jane Grey and Ophelia) that she quickly became the archetypal period-drama protagonist. But by the late ’90s, Bonham Carter began to play against type, taking on roles considerably quirkier and edgier than the rose-lipped maidens of her more conventionally corseted phase. The more damaged the character, the more challenging the conditions, the better-at least that’s what Bonham Carter seemed to have been saying by going on to take on the role of a paraplegic in 1998′s The Theory of Flight, opposite then-boyfriend Kenneth Branagh. The following year, she played the spiky-haired, chain-smoking love interest to Brad Pitt/Edward Norton’s Tyler Durden in David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999). For that role, the London-born actress demonstrated her willingness to get dark and a little maniacal. That she is also not afraid to make herself look grotesque or even ridiculous is part of her charm. Think of the set of gnarly false teeth she sported as the evil Bellatrix Lestrange in three Harry Potter movies. Or her willingness to transform herself into a primate, as she did for Planet of the Apes (2001), a film which, though perhaps not itself a critical high-water mark in her career, signaled the beginning of her ongoing personal and professional relationship with its director, Tim Burton. In Bonham Carter, Burton found the perfect muse for slyly macabre fantasy fiction. Over the past decade they have made seven films together-and more than a few of the Bonham Carter’s characters in those movies have been touched by madness. In fact, some of them have been downright scary, such as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street’s meat pie-baking accomplice Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (2007), and the tyrannical Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland (2010).
Evilness aside, the witchy voluptuousness of some of Bonham Carter’s on-screen characters is not dissimilar from her infamously whimsical off-screen style. Her fondness for dressing in eccentric, multilayered ensembles has for years landed her on both best- and worst-dressed lists. As a nominee for best actress at the 2011 Golden Globes for her work in The King’s Speech, Bonham Carter walked the red carpet wearing a low-cut Vivienne Westwood number in tulle-covered floral accessorized with different shoes: one red and the other green. Predictably, this kind of irreverent move had its share of detractors, but it was precisely its devil-may-care zaniness that inspired Marc Jacobs to ask her to be the face of his Fall 2011 ad campaign.
Bonham Carter’s latest collaboration with Burton is the new film Dark Shadows. Due out this month, it is based on the late 1960s Gothic soap opera of the same name, and tells the story of a 200-year-old vampire (played by another Burton regular, Johnny Depp) who returns home to descendents so deeply troubled that they have invited a psychiatrist with a drinking problem (Bonham Carter) to live with them.
Whether she’s playing an English rose or a sadomasochistic witch, Bonham Carter has never ceased to be interesting-as her Harry Potter costar, Daniel Radcliffe, well knows. Radcliffe visited with the 45-year-old Bonham Carter at one of the two homes she shares with Burton and their two children in London.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: You have quite an overachieving family.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER: Do you think so?
RADCLIFFE: Well, you’re descended from a prime minister, several politicians, and a very influential director. And your maternal granddad was a Spanish diplomat who was awarded the Righteous Among the Nations a few years ago, which is amazing. And your mother is a psychotherapist.
BONHAM CARTER: Wow. You know more than I do.
RADCLIFFE: But that intellectual milieu—how did that launch you? Because you did start young.
BONHAM CARTER: It was nothing to do with where I came from, in the sense that mum and dad never brought us up with any kind of pressure. There weren’t any expectations, which was great. But I was incredibly self-critical and very driven. Thank god I got slightly less self-critical as I got older.
RADCLIFFE: Have you then? Does that go slightly?
BONHAM CARTER: Oh yes. Don’t worry. It’s so much better when you get older.
RADCLIFFE: Oh, thank god.
BONHAM CARTER: I think you physically fall apart. But mentally, it’s so much easier.
RADCLIFFE: I certainly suffer from a slight inferiority complex when I step into a room of other actors because I’ve never trained, and I know you haven’t either.
BONHAM CARTER: Oh, I had a big inferiority complex till yesterday.
RADCLIFFE: But not today!
BONHAM CARTER: Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn’t really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.
RADCLIFFE: Right. And so that boredom is actually what ultimately leads you to go, “Oh, fuck it.”
BONHAM CARTER: “Fuck it” is my guiding philosophy.
RADCLIFFE: I think people see your career as almost having two halves, one where you played this kind of ingénue. And then there’s a perception that around the time you met Tim [Burton], you started getting weird. But I know you’d been weird long before that.
BONHAM CARTER: I was weird right from the start. It’s just that you can’t ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did mess with my head, being well-known young, when you really don’t know who you are. This is how ridiculous I was: I’d sometimes go look at a written profile of me and see how I was described and say, “Oh, is that who I am?” You can’t ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.
RADCLIFFE: Typecast is a strange word. All characters are not the same. It’s a very easy thing to say that somebody’s typecast.
BONHAM CARTER: All those corseted period-dramas. But what was so great about those parts was that they were all from novels. They provided, instantly, way more subtle characterization. I remember that my agent said, “You can’t do Where Angels Fear to Tread [1991] and Howard’s End [1992].” I said, “Why not? Show me a better part.”
RADCLIFFE: Your Harry Potter character, Bellatrix Lestrange, is one of the scariest characters in the books. But I think it’s fair to say that she is very playful and quite sexy as well.
BONHAM CARTER: When they sent the part, I thought, What am I going to do here? Because, actually, on the page, she wasn’t all there, so I thought, Well, you’ve got to be noticed. And Bellatrix-kids were terrified of her. So I think, Okay, I’ve got to be scary. But then also, if you’re with kids, you want to have fun being naughty.
Dark Shadows features on Tv Guide – March 7/20, 2012
Posted by Claudia on May 2, 2012 under Magazines & Scans with 0 comments
thanks a million to joshbowmanfan.com
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Helena Bonham Carter gets ‘sent off’ by Tim Burton
Posted by Claudia on May 2, 2012 under Articles with 0 comments
Helena Bonham Carter gets ”sent off” by partner Tim Burton if he disapproves of her behavior.
The ‘Dark Shadows’ actress says the American filmmaker – with whom she has two children, Billy, eight, and four-year-old Nell – is obsessed with soccer and mimics the disciplinary process used in the game to reprimand her.
She said: ‘He’s become a real soccer fanatic, so he has yellow cards and red cards.
”I’m always being sent off. It’s pretty playful but that’s good for me. ‘We do have a laugh!”
Helena – who lives in London with Tim and their kids – went on to explain she receives yellow card warnings for things such as twitching eyebrows and moving hands.
In ‘Dark Shadows’ – a comedy vampire film directed by Tim – Helena plays psychotherapist Dr. Julia Hoffman and based her research for the role on her mother, who held a similar profession.
However, the 45-year-old star admits she used to ”resent” her parent’s job because she always took a professional stance to her daughter’s moods when she was younger.
Helena added to the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper: ”She’s obviously been our live-in one, too. And it’s really resented, it’s horrible when your mother turns round and tries to psychoanalyze you and says that you’re just ‘projecting’ or you’re being ‘remorseful’. She was always taking the professional stance when I was little. It was very irritating!”
The chameleon queen
Posted by Claudia on April 30, 2012 under Articles with 0 comments
Her characters have spanned a vast range, from royalty to eccentric commoner, but Helena Bonham Carter had inspiration from close to home for her Dark Shadows role as a live-in psychologist.
There’s a window of opportunity after an actor is nominated for an Oscar, says Helena Bonham Carter, who has been there twice, that provides the chance to pick and chose the best roles the film industry has to offer. It lasts for about six weeks, she says.
”It’s like a blood transfusion,” she says. ”Oh my god, she’s alive! Suddenly you’re hot for that period.”
If there’s one thing that defines the elusive London-born actor, it’s that she has never taken the route most likely. After her first nomination, for The Wings of a Dove (1998), she sidestepped blockbusters and discarded the period frocks she was associated with, to play the unhinged, chain-smoking Marla Singer in Fight Club, David Fincher’s disturbed American fable of underground revolution.
After her second nomination, last year, for playing Queen Elizabeth in The King’s Speech, she again wrong-footed the industry.
”People said I wasn’t taking advantage of it doing Dark Shadows,” she says of the latest of seven films she’s done with her partner, director Tim Burton. ”But I do have two children with the director, so it didn’t make much sense going off to the other side of the world when he was doing a film at home.”
While the actor’s persona in the media is of a kooky gothic-dressed eccentric, when we meet in a small concrete yard of a north-east London photography studio, she’s looking alarmingly normal. Dressed in relaxed sweatpants, ugg boots and layers topped with an oversize cardigan, she makes for easy company. Fittingly for an actress who’s played a queen or two, she sits with her legs tucked snugly underneath her on a high-back throne-like chair, a prop from her earlier photo shoot.
As we chat, she attends to a late-afternoon ”pick-me-up” of coffee and tiramisu.
The dessert muffles her laughter when her role in Dark Shadows is first mentioned. ”Yes, I play a live-in psychiatrist and she’s an alcoholic on top of that,” Bonham Carter chuckles.
Set in 1972, it’s Burton’s reboot of the 1960s supernatural soap opera (of the same name) about Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp), who, cursed to be a vampire by a spiteful witch (Eva Green) in the 18th century, is dug up in 1972 by his dysfunctional descendants. Bonham Carter’s Dr Julia Hoffman lives with them, trying to make sense of it all.
To a generation in the US, the show was big news.
”Michelle Pfeiffer rang up and said, ‘I’ve got to be in it,”’ Bonham Carter says. ”As a kid she would obsess about it and run home from school to watch it.”
Bonham Carter had planned to take a breather from working with Burton but she was drawn by the ”originality of the character”.
She also had a head start on the research as her mother was a psychotherapist.
”She’s obviously been our live-in one, too,” Bonham Carter says, cackling. ”And it’s really resented, it’s horrible when your mother turns round and tries to psychoanalyse you and says that you’re just ‘projecting’ or you’re being ‘remorseful’. She was always taking the professional stance when I was little. It was very irritating!”
Certainly Bonham Carter’s childhood wasn’t made easy when, aged 13, complications from the treatment of her father’s brain surgery left him paralysed. Helping her mother look after him, she didn’t move out of the family home until she was 30. Yet despite learning responsibility young, at 45, Bonham Carter maintains a childish charm; her mobile phone case, for instance, is pink with bunny ears.
For her two children, Billy Ray, 8, and Nell, 4, you’d imagine she’d be a fun mum.
Motherhood requires the inevitable balancing act, though, as her career shows no signs of abating. Next, she plays Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. ”I loved doing that part,” she says. ”I suppose anybody who’s mentally ill fascinates me. She’s somebody who’s just stuck in a moment and can’t move on.”
As fate would have it, a week later I spot Bonham Carter at Pinewood studios filming perhaps her biggest film of the year: the new film musical version of Les Miserables. Directed by Tom Hopper (The King’s Speech), the impressive-looking production has her playing Madame Thenardier, alongside Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, all of whom sing live on set, which is a first for a film musical.
Age, long the chief handicap for an actress in the eyes of Hollywood, has not dimmed her powers.
”I’m sure it might be an issue at some point,” she says. ”At the moment, the parts aren’t dependent on it. It’s looking good so far.”
An actor’s age is only an issue if you happen to be female.
”Yeah, there used to be the hair thing,” she says, breaking into laughter.
”It’s amazing. When you saw [soccer star] Wayne Rooney [and his hair transplant], it’s like, ‘Aarrrghh!’
”That was the one thing we could say, ‘Well, they lose their hair, don’t they.’ Now, there is no longer any revenge.”
After a strained relationship with Burton on the set of her last musical, Sweeney Todd, not helped by Bonham Carter being pregnant and having to sing, the couple took to lightening the mood on Alice in Wonderland by shooting each other with foam Nerf guns. The couple’s latest high jinks while filming Dark Shadows brings us back to soccer.
”He’s become a real soccer fanatic, so he has yellow cards and red cards,” says Bonham Carter, adding that bookable offences include twitching eyebrows and moving hands.
”I’m always being sent off. It’s pretty playful but that’s good for me.
”We do have a laugh!”
One is bemused by honours
When Helena Bonham Carter received a CBE honour this year from the Queen, she found it hard to rationalise that such an accolade was bestowed on her for simply doing the job she loved.
”The acting profession is over-rewarded – we get a ridiculous amount of awards – but to get a medal for something you enjoy and are lucky to be doing, it’s strange to feel you’ve earned it,” she says. ”[For me] it was definitely in the memory of my dad, because he was very brave in his own way.”
The irony wasn’t lost on her that she received the award swiftly on the heels of playing the Queen’s mother in The King’s Speech.
”I’m sure that’s why I probably got it,” she muses. ”[The Queen] is not allowed to say if she’s seen it or not but I guess she must have.”
“Dark Shadows” Posters Update
Posted by Claudia on April 26, 2012 under Projects | Movies with 0 comments
With the help of depplovers.com.br I’ve added and chased for HQs of the posters and found. One will be in portoguese but Helena in HQ. aww!
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• AkiraRole: Lady Miyako
Release Date: 2013
IMDB,
Status: In Development
• Les MiserablesRole: Madame Thenardier
Release Date: 2012
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Status: In Development
• Dark ShadowsRole: Dr. Julia Hoffman
Release Date: 2012
IMDB,
Status: Filming
• Great ExpectationsRole: Miss Havisham
Release Date: 2012
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Status: Filming
• Life's too shortRole: -
Release Date: 2011
IMDB,
Status: Completed
• HPotter 7: Part IIRole: Bellatrix Lestrange
Release Date: 2011
Official Site, Photos
Status: Completed
Dark Shadows - European Premiere
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