L'actrice anglais, et femme de Tim Burton qu'on a pu voir dans Sweeney Todd, Big Fish, Charlie... mais aussi Fight Club...

[Pour Alice in wonderland] Helena Bonham Carter a enduré trois heures de maquillage chaque matin. Avec l'aide du pro du maquillage Vallie O'Reilley, l'actrice a été couverte de poudre blanche, beaucoup de fard à paupières bleu, des sourcils peints et parfaits, des lèvres en forme de coeur. L'équipe des effets spéciaux a rendu la tête de Bonham Carter plus large en post production, créant ainsi le look final de la Reine à la grosse tête.


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Le 17 février 2010 "The Late Late Show"

The Red Queen and Her King le 22 février

Interview Tim `likes to deform me'

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Canwest News Service HOLLYWOOD – The way Helena Bonham Carter sees it, filmmaker Tim Burton loves her to look grotesque on screen. And since she just happens to live with Burton and their two preschool children, that's very much OK with her. So it was no big deal to spend two-and-a-half hours each day in the makeup chair to play the demonic Red Queen in Alice In Wonderland. She shrugs off the fact that Burton then assigned his camera wizards to fine-tune her appearance during actual shooting, and to make sure she had an oversized head in the finished film. "Maybe that's why Tim gave me the job," she reflects. "I'm one of the few actresses who can blow up their head!" Still, she does ask reporters to note she's less "inflated" today than she is in the film, opening March 5. Actually, however, that's hard to ascertain, given the rat's nest of hair that constitutes her headgear today; it's such a towering mess, it adds inches to her diminutive five-foot-two frame. This great- granddaughter of a former British prime minister seems quite content to be a fashion nightmare these days – despite the fact that she launched her acting career as the epitome of refinement in movies like A Room with a View. In Alice In Wonderland, her Red Queen is a furious force of nature, sporting a huge wig and tramping about the terrain, snarling "Off with their heads!" at the slightest provocation. "They put a bald cap on and get rid of my hairline and then (they) have to paint it and put my 'beauty' makeup on – that took some time – and then my huge wig," Bonham Carter says. "They didn't blow my head up every morning," she adds. "They did that on camera." She says there are only two cameras in the world capable of bringing off this effect. "I had this huge camera dedicated to me – which was fine by me." Clearly none of this was an ordeal. Neither were the four hours a day of makeup required to transform her into a simian something in Burton's earlier film, Planet Of The Apes. "Tim likes to put makeup on me, likes to deform me. I love it." Coaster Anne Hathaway, who's sitting beside Bonham Carter, keeps cracking up at this uninhibited flow of patter. Hathaway plays the White Queen, the Red Queen's more sedate younger sister and the self-appointed protector of Alice (Mia Wasikowska) when she returns to the wonderland of her childhood at the age of 19. Hathaway figures that, for all her outward sweetness, the White Queen does have a dark side, pointing out that both characters come from the same genes. In fact, she's on record as suggesting that The White Queen is something of a "punk-rock vegan pacifist." Concocting her own psychological profile of this elegant creature, Hathaway concludes she's a mass of contradictions: She may have taken a vow of non-violence, but it was really "against her will." She also has mixed motives in wishing to topple her tyrannical sister. "She recognizes that her sister is sick, and believes that a means to an end is cutting people's heads off, and that's kind of her default setting. I'm just like – I don't want her to be in charge, so I have to be in charge." It appears it was a mere whim on Hathaway's part to think of the White Queen as a vegan. "She spends a lot of time in the kitchen," Hathaway says. But her performance was also inspired by legendary screen goddess Greta Garbo. "I watched a lot of her silent films. Nobody has ever moved on film the way she did." Burton gave Hathaway freedom to fashion her character. "In Wonderland, I don't want anything to be all good or all bad," he told her. "I don't want that the Red Queen is the bad one and you're the nice, benevolent one who's all good. Have fun exploring the relationship between the two of them." That was a cue for Hathaway to add a few blemishes to the White Queen. "I thought, what fun if my character has a sort of hidden psychosis …" "Not so hidden!" Bonham Carter interjects. Like all other cast members, Hathaway found herself shooting in a green- screen world, having to imagine those elements that would be digitally added later: the magical settings and a host of animated creatures, such as the White Rabbit and Cheshire Cat. She had a terrific time portraying a "real" character, but she would have been happy doing anything in this film. "I would do anything that Tim wanted me to. I would have played a mushroom, if that's the way he saw me in it. . . . I would have done anything to be in Wonderland, but it's kind of nice to be a real person, as well." Bonham Carter had no problem performing in a green-screen situation. "We all had to act opposite tennis balls and bits of tape," she reports. "Actually, tennis balls and bits of tape can be good actors," she says, suggesting they're in the "minimalist mode." Still, Bonham Carter felt a bit neglected when she did her scenes with a non- existent White Rabbit. She really missed the presence of Michael Sheen, who supplied the voice. Instead, she had to settle for a 12-inch drawing of a rabbit. "I would appreciate it if you had come in your bunny outfit once, but you didn't," she tells Sheen, who's also in the room. The finished film plunges audiences into a strange and wondrous world, complete with all of Lewis Carroll's beloved characters: a grinning Cheshire cat, a flustered White Rabbit, a melancholy Mad Hatter and a couple of formidable monsters. So at what age should children see it? Bonham Carter, who's currently filming Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, in which she reprises her role as Bellatrix LeStrange, is characteristically matter-of-fact about this issue. "I don't know what age. Tim always has a theory that it's us who have the problem. We impose fears on our kids – yet the kids are actually quite robust." That's a cue to tell a family story. Son Billy is now six, and she and Burton checked out a Montessori nursery school for him, only to be warned by an official that children couldn't tell the difference between reality and fantasy. "She recommended no fairy tales, so that's why we didn't send our son to Montessori, because telling Tim Burton that fairy tales are not a good idea is . .. ooooh!" She makes a face, and the room dissolves in laughter. When this Red Queen holds court, there are no holds barred.

Helena Bonham Carter et Tim Burton donne des details de leur vie coloré

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By Ruben V. Nepales Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 23:01:00 02/26/2010 LOS ANGELES—PICTURE TIM BURTON and Helena Bonham-Carter, with their unruly mass of hair, scaring each other accidentally in their own home. “I think I scare him at times,” Helena, whose eyes are even more expressive in person, confided about her companion. Just the visual of Tim and Helena scaring the daylights out of each other was enough to send us tittering. “Definitely, he scares me. Our children scare us like I just scared him. He scared me last night because he put the blankets, on the bed and I was half-asleep, so it was like, ‘Oh, my God!’ Sometimes, I walk in, and he goes, ‘Oh, my God!’ I’d go, ‘I had two children by you. Remember?’ He’s easily scared. I’m slightly braver.” We thank the cinema gods that Helena and Tim are gutsier in their screen collaborations, which include “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” “Corpse Bride,” “Planet of the Apes,” “Big Fish” and, now, “Alice in Wonderland.” Helena runs away with the movie, an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-Glass,” as the Red Queen. Anecdote In a recent interview, Helena regaled us with an anecdote, which she narrated with a conspiratorial whisper, complete with ever widening eyes. “One time, we were staying in a house with my brother and sister-in-law,” she began. “There was something sitting in the ceiling over our bed. Both of us were going to make a run for it and get my brother and sister-in-law, because we didn’t know what to do. We’re so not practical in that area. We were like children. We were whispering, ‘What are we going to do? What’s the plan?’ It was like there was a Jabberwocky (the dragon-like creature in ‘Alice…’) above us. We counted ‘1, 2, 3,’ ran and hid in my niece and nephew’s bedroom, while Tom, my brother, got rid of it. It turned out to be a pigeon! Hitchcock, yeah.” Yes, Helena is a fun interviewee, especially when she’s in the mood, as she was in this chat: She teased the hell out of her hair. She appeared to be competing with Tim for having the hair with the most, um, character. “I’m living it,” she replied when asked what her most fantastic dream was. She and Tim are blessed with two kids, Bill, 6, and Nell, 2. “I’m pretty lucky, I must say,” she stressed. “The fact that Tim went and made ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ one of my favorite stories. The movie isn’t the actual story, but it has all the elements and that whole culture. I couldn’t believe it when he asked me to be in it. I had a little dream come true being in a musical, ‘Sweeney Todd.’ He has granted me a few dreams and two children. He’s definitely popular on my list.” Helena and Tim are probably among the coolest parents around, but they adhere to the basics in what they teach their children. “Manners are very important,” Helena declared. Then, she laughed, remembering her “Off with their heads!” tantrums as the wickedly fun royal in “Alice…” She said, “Then, they see their mother being the Red Queen. She has no manners whatsoever and does not say, ‘Please’ or ‘Thank you’—nothing. Tim and I are big on manners, apart from values like kindness and thoughtfulness. We want to bring up two nice human beings—people with big hearts, who are responsible and thoughtful. You don’t necessarily know what you think is important until you start teaching your kids. Luckily, Tim and I agree.” But, Tim and their family buddy, Johnny Depp, who plays the Mad Hatter in “Alice...,” are apparently helpless when it comes to humor. “I thought they were sort of 6-year-olds, because of their sense of humor,” Helena dished with a smile. “It’s like Bill now has a more sophisticated sense of humor than his dad.” Growing up We found out one interesting thing about growing up in the Tim-Helena household when the actress was asked what she reads to her kids. “I like reading the stories that I enjoyed as a kid,” she answered. “So, poor Bill, I was reading ‘Little House on the Prairie’ to him. He didn’t enjoy it. Thank God, I had a girl for Bill’s sake, because I’ve been dressing Bill as a girl for years until Nell came. Then, he was allowed to be a boy. ” When Tim came in to be interviewed next, a reporter told him, “You look like a mad scientist in a Fritz Lang movie.” “Thank you,” Tim laughed, his hair still a shock of curls, even though they are graying now. “That’s a compliment.” Asked by a writer if he puts himself in a “bizarre state of mind” when he creates his highly imaginative films, Tim deadpanned, “I always feel like I’m in a bizarre state, which is good. Well, maybe good, maybe bad. There’s something about Alice and a lot of children’s literature that captures the topsy-turvy weirdness of life. It may seem fantastical and strange, but I find that the root of it is based on reality.” Asked how he decides if Helena is perfect for a part in a film, Tim explained, “In this particular case, it was easy, because I saw her as the Red Queen quickly and easily. She’s like Johnny in the sense that she doesn’t like watching herself. I like that as a director, because I don’t have to deal with any of that ‘Oh, shoot me from this side, or that side’ kind of stuff. It’s very liberating.” Teen idol Of Johnny, his muse since they collaborated for the first time in “Edward Scissorhands” 20 years ago, Tim recalled, “I didn’t see his TV show then (‘21 Jump Street’), but I did see a picture of Johnny from that series. When I met him, I could see he was trapped in that world—a teen idol/male model blah blah blah. That’s not who he was as a person, so he identified with Edward, character who’s misperceived for the way he looks. He looks like a monster, but he’s not. He’s really a sweetheart inside and, in a different version, Johnny was that way in his life. I could see him clearly connecting to that character.” Tim, despite the outsize dark glasses and outlandish hair, sounded like a regular dad when he talked about how making films keeps him away from his family.” This one was disturbing to make, because I was away from my family for a while,” he shared. “The hardest thing was being away while they’re starting to grow a little more.” With a rock-star grin, Tim added, “I have to be home when they’re tearing around the house. I’m sure it’s going to be enjoyable!”