ACTOR: Kenneth Branagh – Wallander (BBC One), Brendon Gleeson – Into The Storm (BBC Two), John Hurt – An Englishman in New York (ITV1), Other Non-Potter Actor
ACTRESS: Helena Bonham Carter – Enid (BBC One), Julie Walters – A Short Stay In Switzerland (BBC One), Julie Walters – Mo (Channel 4), Other Non-Potter Actress
Helena Bonham Carter will be a guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson tonight! Check your local listings to see what time the show is on in your area. According to the site it is on Weeknights 12:35am/11:35pm c.
Make sure you are awake if you want to watch and don’t record it; I tried to record the show last night and my TV totally screwed it up and only got the first 5 minutes (it started recording at the right time but the show hadn’t started yet).
The Royal premiere of Disney’s Alice in Wonderland is being held in London this evening. So far Harry Potter stars, who are also in the film, Helena Bonham Carter, Timothy Spall, Paul Whitehouse,and Alan Rickman are in attendance! The first photos of the stars can be seen over at the SS galleries.
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.”
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