In yet another interview, this time with Rotten Tomatoes, Helena Bonham Carter spoke about Bellatrix Lestrange and what happens to her at the end of Deathly Hallows. Spoilers abond!
“I’m mostly in [Deathly Hallows: Part 2],” she told RT. “But it was fun. I died on my last day, which was really weird — to actually be [killed] on my last day. Molly Weasley – Julie Walters – kills me.”
And it’ll be quite the moment, she explained. “I do get a good death scene,” she told us. “It was really exhausting. As usual! [I’m] duelling, with a wand, on a table. I fell right off. I was clever enough to say, ‘If you’re going to ask me to duel, backwards, can we put a stuntman at the end?’ They said, ‘Ah, you won’t need one.’ And what did I do? Walked straight off. You’d think with 70 people looking at you, one of them would go, ‘Er, could you stop?!’ No! They loved it. I nearly killed myself — on the day that I died.”
For Bonham-Carter, bringing Bellatrix to an end was an emotional experience given her investment in the creation of the character as she appears in the films. “Bellatrix wasn’t on the page,” she explained. “I did think, What can I do to make this interesting? She was just written as tall and gaunt, but I knew there was something I got attracted to — playing arrested development. You know, children. Bellatrix is another child — stuck and totally anarchic.”
Helena also spoke to MTV about Deathly Hallows and you can watch the video below.
“I do have lines in this one, which is good,” laughed the veteran actress, who has become a standout as evil Bellatrix Lestrange in the films. “I only finished it a couple of months ago.
“I get to torture Hermione,” Carter said when asked about her favorite scene, which revolves around an incantation that Bellatrix drops on Emma Watson’s character just for fun.
The best bit about being Bellatrix in this one is also because I got to pretend to be Hermione,” she added of a pivotal scene that has the evil witch’s identity being assumed by Harry’s friend in order to gain access to Gringotts Wizarding Bank, which holds Hufflepuff’s cup — and a part of Voldemort’s soul. “Because Hermione takes polyjuice potion and gets to look like Bellatrix.”
“Rather than put Emma Watson in a helluva load of make-up they just said, ‘Now you go act like Hermione,’ ” Bonham Carter said of their decision. “That was fun, because I always wanted to be Hermione.
“It was great fun,” she said of the scene. “[I was] looking at Dan [Radcliffe] and Rupert [Grint] and they were treating me as if I was 17.”
In a new interview with Dish Rag Blog on Zap2It.com Helena Bonham Carter discussed Bellatrix Lestrange and the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows films. SPOILERS if you haven’t read the book!
“I get to do horrible things,” she admits about her character Bellatrix LeStrange. “I killed Sirius Black ages ago. I kill Dobby in this one and I torture Hermione. Oh, and I get to pretend to be Hermione. Hermione takes this potion that makes her look like me. So I had to act like Hermoine pretending to be me.”
According to The Liverpool Daily Times, Imelda Staunton will begin filming Deathly Hallows next week!
The actress, who played Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order Of The Phoenix, visited performers at the film and TV acting school in Duke Street last night. She spoke about her extensive career in television and movies, which included filming in the city for The Virgin Of Liverpool alongside Ricky Tomlinson and the drama David Copperfield.
The 54-year-old actress, who is well-known for playing Izzy in the comedy television series Up The Garden Path, arrived in Liverpool just a week before she begins work on the new Harry Potter film.
She said: “I hope the actors found it interesting to hear about the difference between theatre and film-making.”
Ciaran Hinds, who plays Aberforth Dumbledore, was interviewed earlier today on WAAF’s the Hillman Morning Show, and talked about working on the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Watch the interview below; the Potter part starts around 5:20.
Basically I’m there to play one long scene where I explain to the kids – who are not kids anymore – about some part of the history of Albus Dumbledore’s life that they weren’t fully up to the mark in. But I did get, for one split second, someone put a wand in my hand and I got to flash it.
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