Helena Bonham Carter will be honored at The Moët British Independent Film Awards on December 5th in Central London. She will receive the Richard Harris Award which is given to actors or actresses for outstanding contributions to British film.
David Thewlis (Lupin) won this award in 2008, Jim Broadbent (Slughorn) in 2006, and John Hurt (Ollivander) in 2003, with Richard being the first recipient posthumously in 2002. Fans will also remember that Richard Harris was the original Albus Dumbledore in the Potter films but tragically died before the third film went into production.
Helena has also been nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The King’s Speech. Jim Broadbent has been nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film for Another Year.
In a new interview with MTV, Helena Bonham Carter has talked about her fellow castmates in Harry Potter, the end of filming and more!
“I definitely had a sense of finality and a real sense of loss, because I really got involved with people,” she told us. “You had to, not ‘you had to’ — they were a really nice group of people.”
That sense of loss was perhaps exacerbated by the fact that the final scene Bonham Carter filmed was the death of her character, Bellatrix Lestrange, who’s killed during the climactic Battle of Hogwarts. “You know what was weird, which has never happened on a film, was I died on my last day,” Carter revealed. “Usually you die the middle of the shoot. But they actually killed me off on my last day. So there was a sense of real end and finality. They zapped me. My last shot was me dead.”
Luckily, the actress will be reuniting with Radcliffe and their cohorts in a few days, as the cast gathers in London to begin the promotional effort for part one of “Deathly Hallows.” Then they’ll all hop on a plane heading to New York for another red-carpet premiere. Carter welcomes the chance to reconnect with pals. “I miss them all,” she confessed.
WB has released thirteen new interviews with the cast of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Bill Nighy, Tom Felton, Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Isaacs, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Imelda Staunton, David Yates, David Heyman, and David Barron are interviewed. Watch them all in a playlist below:
In a new interview with the NZ Herald News a bunch of the cast talk about filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Matthew Lewis, Daniel Radcliffe, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Felton and David Heyman were interviewed.
“We were all aware that this great juggernaut was reaching the end of its journey, so we wanted to give it and the characters the proper send-off they deserved,” says producer David Heyman, describing the rationale for the split.
“The only way to do that and preserve the integrity of the work was, we felt, to have two parts because Deathly Hallows is so rich, the story so dense and there’s so much that is resolved.”
Daniel Radcliffe had campaigned from the start to break the story into two movies. Unlike the earlier books, which had secondary plot lines that could be omitted, Deathly Hallows had few details to drop, Radcliffe says.
“It’s just the three of them on the road, and that’s what you’re focusing on, that’s where everything happens. So there’s very little you can actually cut without changing the story,” he says.
“There was no way you could do justice to the book and really capture the story in one film, unless you made that film six hours [long].
“And while I know there are some Potter fans who would be quite happy to have a six-hour Harry Potter film, we do want to make films not just for the huge fans of the books, but also for the other people, regular cinema-goers, who perhaps haven’t read them. So it was essential to make it palatable for sort of everyone, while also remaining true to the book, and to do that, you have to make it into two films.”
Similarly, to ensure cinematic continuity, director David Yates – who previously helmed Half-Blood Prince and Order of the Phoenix – was re-enlisted for both parts of Deathly Hallows. That decision became a life-saver during filming, says Matt Lewis, who plays Neville Longbottom.
“Not only was it a really long shoot, it was also really tricky because we didn’t film them back to back,” he reveals. “We shot them simultaneously, like Lord of the Rings, so it got really confusing. If we didn’t have such a good crew and David directing us, it could have got completely out of control because the schedule for the last year was crazy. I literally don’t know what film each scene was in, or how they fit together. But we all just buckled down because it’s the last one and we wanted to make it as memorable and epic as possible.”
Back in March we posted that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and some of the actors were longlisted for MTV Movie Awards, now the nominations are out and Potter is nominated for the following:
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