It has been announced today by IndieWire that Helena will be appearing in the upcoming Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie, The Young and Prodigious Spivet. Her role is currently unknown, but she will be starring alongside Kathy Bates, Kyle Catlett and Callum Keith Rennie.

The film is based on the book The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen, and has the following plot:

The film revolves around a 12-year-old cartography enthusiast in an eccentric family, who travels across country hidden on board a freight train after being invited to the Smithsonian Institute.

Filming will begin in Alberta, Canada, on June 30th, with a planned release date of October 2013.

Helena Bonham Carter has revealed to the Press Association she has yet to start work on Les Misérables.

The Dark Shadows actress is set to portray unscrupulous innkeeper’s wife Madame Thénardier in Tom Hooper’s big-screen adaptation of the award-winning musical, alongside Sacha Baron Cohen as her screen husband.

“I don’t know yet. I haven’t really started it. I should have,” Helena said.

The 45-year-old can’t wait to flex her vocal cords again, following her singing stints in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Corpse Bride.

“I’m just rehearsing and learning to sing it. I’m looking forward to it,” she added.

Helena Bonham Carter tells Paul Byrne of Herald.ie that playing wicked women is really ‘not that much of a stretch’

There’s a moment in Tim Burton’s latest Gothic offering Dark Shadows when his better-half’s character bemoans: “Every year, half as pretty and twice as drunk.” Coming from the perfectly pouted lips of Helena Bonham Carter, your gut reaction is to chuckle. Here’s a woman who has maintained her ethereal allure for almost 30 years on screen, looking as devilishly beautiful and bewitching as she did playing Miss Lucy Honeychurch in her 1985 breakthrough film A Room with a View.

If anything, Bonham Carter became more attractive as she slowly unleashed her wicked side through such movies as Fight Club, Novocaine and as Bellatrix Lestrange in the last four Harry Potter outings. I’m sure Ismail Merchant must be spinning in his grave — with both desire and delight.

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“Oh, that’s very kind of you,” smiles Bonham Carter, “but I’m sure you say that to all the actresses who are getting on in years.”

Hard to believe, but Bonham Carter is 45, and a mother of eight-year-old Billy Ray and four-year-old Nell, both with Burton.

“It’s not something I’ve ever chased, that whole ‘English rose’ thing, so, to have a little fun and be wicked, that’s far, far closer to my real nature. Maybe that’s why these roles suit me so well? They’re not really all that much of a stretch, you see … “

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For her latest film project, Dark Shadows, Helena was interviewed by James Kleinmann for the UK film website Blogomatic3000. Watch the interview below!

Helena was pictured leaving today’s press junket for Dark Shadows  at the Claridges Hotel in London. I have added 12 MQ images of Helena to the gallery, but make sure to login!

   

In a report by The Press Association, we have found out that Helena has revealed how her Dark Shadows character was partly inspired by her mother.

The two-time Oscar nominee plays kooky psychiatrist Dr. Julia Hoffman in Tim Burton’s big-screen adaptation of the cult 60s TV series, which also stars Johnny Depp, Eva Green and Michelle Pfeiffer.

“It’s all a magpie, you tend to take from people. There’s a bit of Bette Davis in there, a bit of Dorothea Parks, lots of people. My mum’s a therapist – I didn’t base it too much on her but she is a psychotherapist, so that was kind of useful,” she said.

Helena, who based her Alice in Wonderland‘s Red Queen alter-ego on her four-year-old daughter, joked that her mum wouldn’t find it an insult.

“I don’t know, she hasn’t seen it. My mum is deeply professional and Julia unfortunately transgresses certain professional boundaries. My mother wouldn’t go there!” she added.

Dark Shadows marks the seventh collaboration between Helena and her real-life partner, Tim.

“I thought he might offer me the part of the sexy witch, until he said he saw me as Dr. Hoffman, which was interesting. But it’s a great part and her look is hilarious, with the bright orange hair and those ridiculous eyelashes. I genuinely loved the character so how could I not say yes?” she said.

The actress added: “Our relationship is getting better and better actually. We get more laughs. When we started off, we didn’t get many compliments and now it’s good fun, really good.”

Helena Bonham Carter raved about the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee on the purple carpet in London last night at the European premiere of Dark Shadows.

Loveable oddball Helena was sad to say that she’ll probably miss out on the country’s celebrations due to her busy work schedule.

Helena confessed: “I think I’m going to have to work on the Jubilee, which I’m pretty upset about. I’m doing Les Misérables.”

The Harry Potter star recently met the Queen at Buckingham Palace, when she received a CBE in honour of her services to drama. It must have been a strange experience, as she had recently portrayed the Queen’s own mother in hit film The King’s Speech.

Britain will commemorate Queen Elizabeth’s 60 years on the throne with street parties, parades and a special Bank Holiday.

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Firstly, I apologise for the delay in uploading photographs – I was out when the premiere started! Anyway, I have added 126 MQ pictures of Helena at the London premiere of Dark Shadows, along with Tim Burton and co-stars Johnny Depp, Eva Green and Michelle Pfeiffer to name but a few! Helena looked fabulous (as always) in a stunning dress by Vivienne Westwood. I’m afraid that’s all for tonight folks – I’ll add HQs tomorrow when I get home from work! Enjoy!

Helena Bonham Carter admits that as a teenager she had such a crush on fellow actor Jeremy Irons she stalked him. The Harry Potter star became besotted with Irons, now 63, after seeing him act opposite Meryl Streep in the film adaptation of John Fowles’s novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman. 

Helena, 45, nominated for an Oscar  for her role as the Queen Mother in The King’s Speech, tells Harper’s Bazaar: ‘I used to love The French Lieutenant’s Woman and actually stalked Jeremy Irons when I was 15. I’d go up and down the street where he used to live. It was scary.’ 

Irons, who is married to fellow thespian Sinead Cusack, had no idea of Helena’s obsession. Helena adds: ‘I have met him since and he was horrified to find that out. It’s funny — as soon as I met him I thought. “What was all that about?”’

According to Star Magazine, Helena has fulfilled a New Year’s resolution after signing up for tap dance lessons.

The Alice in Wonderland star made a vow at the start of 2012 to enrol in a class, and now she reveals she has finally hit the dance studio.

She tells Interview magazine, “The great thing about our job is that it makes us do stuff we’re naturally too lazy to do. I’m proud of myself that I’m finally doing tap lessons. That was a New Year’s resolution. I thought, ‘Just do it! When are you going to make the time?’”

But the actress admits she prefers to spend time with her two kids when she has a rare day off, adding, “(In my free time I) learn to tap dance. Do something with children. Bond. Remind them, ‘Hello, I am your mother.’ The free time is spent with the children, really…

“I think if you’ve got a child, you’ve got to show them how to love life and what the good things to do are… I love that. And I love what I get back from them, which is imagination and play.”