There is a new interview online with Bellatrix Lestrange actres Helena Bonham Carter.

This summer, Helena’s back and bad as Bellatrix Lestrange, the Voldemort-loving scourge of Harry Potter. When she first read the script for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, she was disappointed to see she only had a few scenes with Daniel Radcliffe and Ralph Fiennes, who plays Voldemort. But Harry Potter’s author stepped in to reassure her that the role would get better, and bigger.

“When I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny part, J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix’s role was going to be significant in the last film,” she said. “But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. It doesn’t necessarily equal a big part.” Returning to the role of the gothic witch meant fitting Helena with a skyhigh hairstyle and a set of false teeth.

“You have to keep them in so you get used to them,” she said. “But you forget they’re in and if you then eat something, they break. That’s very expensive.” To complete the look of the only female Death Eater in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Helena sports a gothic corset and a pair of impressive boobs. “I have chicken fillets,” she explained. So when she finally got a chance to choose her cleavage, her first instinct was to go for chicken fillets that were turkey-sized. She said: “I thought it was my chance to have the boobs I’ve always wanted. But my assistant said, ‘You look like a porn star.’ And that was not the image I was going for.”

For Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Helena also helped Emma Watson by inviting the actress to her house to talk through a scene where Bellatrix becomes Hermione after taking a magic potion. Helena wanted to know everything about Hermione in order to get the transformation right, but she also reassured Emma that being a young actress didn’t mean she had to worry about her image all the time. “I’m top of Heat’s Worst Dressed list,” she told Emma. “Who cares?” Beastly Bellatrix will be the second time Helena has turned rotten this summer.

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