In a recent interview about her new made for TV movie, Helena Bonham Carter mentions Harry Potter filming:

“Acting is so boring half the time because you’re waiting for everybody else – I worked on Harry Potter afterwards and it was like going from one end of the spectrum to the other.  It’s not an entirely selfish process because everyone else has to do their work too, so you have to wait. You just have to wait and so much of acting is momentum. I really love doing Harry Potter, but there’s half an hour between each take and there’s a cocktail party and then you can’t remember what you did in the last one so there’s nothing to build on.

“But then Enid was a speedy person, speed is her essence and her life was an interruption to that novel, she was ruled by the watch, she always had to get back to that novel. And as so many creative people are, she wasn’t actually present, she was off in that other world and so speedy, she was an engine. And in fact that helped me.”

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