Tim, Helena & Billy Ray de paseo por Londres

HELENA BONHAM CARTER EL TALENTO TRASCIENDE

Helena Bonham Carter irrumpió en la gran pantalla en una bellísima película que la ha bendecido con una prestigiosa aunque algo estereotipada carrera. Desde A Room with a View (1985), si bien ha hecho varios filmes muy diversos, la imagen iconográfica de ella que perdura en la mente del espectador es la de la clásica chica de la Belle Epoque.
Su celebrada encarnación de la testaruda Lucy Honeychurch en una de las obras maestras del equipo fílmico Merchant-Ivory --compuesto por el recordado productor indio Ismail Merchant y el director estadounidense James Ivory-- especializado en elegantes filmes de época de alta calidad para espectadores intelectuales le otorgó lo que se ha convertido en una especie de trademark para la actriz.
A Room with a View --una tragicomedia basada en la novela homónima de E. M. Forster, sobre una pareja que se conoce en Italia y se vuelve a encontrar en su natal Inglaterra, provocando que ella (Bonham Carter) rompa con su prometido (Daniel Day-Lewis) para casarse, finalmente, con el joven que conoció en Florencia (Julian Sands)-- estableció a Bonham Carter y a Day-Lewis como importantes rostros escénicos de su generación.
Sin embargo, si bien la cinta fue un triunfo artístico que lanzó a la desconocida Bonham Carter al estrellato internacional, su filmografía es muy típicamente británica. Curiosamente, a finales de la década de los años 80 trabajó en un par de episodios de Miami Vice que figuran entre los más sobresalientes de la serie.
No obstante, lo que siguió a A Room with a View, en términos de personajes consistentes, fueron filmes basados en temas históricos como Lady Jane (1986) en el que personificó a la trágica reina protestante del siglo XVI que perdió la cabeza --literalmente-- tras tomar por unos días el trono de Inglaterra que le pertenecía a la católica María Tudor, hija mayor de Enrique VIII. La actriz también interpretaría a Ana Bolena, la segunda esposa del notorio rey Enrique, y otro personaje histórico que también entregó su cuello, en la producción televisiva Henry VIII (2003).
Bonham Carter ha tratado varias veces de romper su estigma universal de ''la mujer de época'' con tonterías ligeras como la comedia contemporánea Mighty Aphrodite (1995) de Woody Allen, y dramas oscuros como la ultraviolenta Fight Club (1999), con Brad Pitt y Edward Norton, para vertiginosamente retornar a la raíz de su esencia estética. De hecho, pocos dudan de que lo mejor que ha realizado hasta la fecha siempre ha poseído un toque histórico o literario bien pronunciado: la magistral Howards End (1992), en la que trabajó con Emma Thompson, fue otra producción de Merchant-Ivory basada en un libro de Forster; Twelfth Night (1996), basada en una comedia de Shakespeare, e --imposible de pasar por alto-- su más desgarradora y devastadora actuación: el papel de la trágica Kate Croy en la adaptación de la novela de Henry James The Wings of the Dove (1997), por la que recibió su hasta la fecha única nominación al Oscar a la Mejor Actriz.
Nacida en Londres en 1966, Bonham Carter tiene dos hijos con el director Tim Burton: un niño de cuatro años --cuyo padrino es nada menos que el superastro Johnny Depp, con quien Burton ha trabajado en varios filmes-- y una niña a la que dio a luz el 15 de diciembre, según informó esta semana la edición en internet de la revista People.
Ahora, el trío de Burton, Bonham Carter y Depp entrega su más reciente y aclamada colaboración para otra historia de época, Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, basada en el musical de Broadway de Stephen Sondheim, que llega a los cines hoy, y por el cual los tres han recibido nominaciones a los premios Globo de Oro como mejores Director, Actriz y Actor, respectivamente.
No existe otra actriz con el estilo y el exotismo de Bonham Carter. Punto. Hasta en sus cintas menos destacadas, su insólita imagen le da enorme impacto al material más inferior. Y ese ''don'' es precisamente lo que la convierte en una actriz muy moderna capaz de trascender todas las épocas y culturas.

Helena Bonham Carter da a luz a una niña

La actriz británica Helena Bonham Carter ha dado a luz a una niña, su segunda hija con el director de cine Tim Burton. El bebé nació en Londres el pasado sábado, según aseguró el representante de la actriz a la revista People. La pareja ya tiene un hijo de cuatro años llamado Billy.

Bonham Carter, de 41 años, recibió la semana pasada una nominación a los Globos de Oro por su papel de macabra panadera en la adaptación musical de Burton Sweeney Tood, que se estrena el viernes en una edición limitada. Burton, de 49, también fue nominado.

La musa del tétrico realizador reveló en el último número de la revista Playboy que se quedó embarazada en medio de la producción, lo que ocasionó evidentes problemas de continuidad en las secuencias. "Empecé con los pechos gigantes", afirma la actriz. "Luego subo las escaleras y, de repente, tengo mandarinas de nuevo. De melones a mandarinas".

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Helena Bonham Carter haunts online forum

Actress Helena Bonham Carter was so upset by her body's reaction to fertility drugs that she went online to find help.
Helena, 41, was trying for a child with boyfriend Tim Burton and started taking fertility drug Clomid, but the experience was a real downer.
Says Helena: "I had a terrible reaction to it. It turned out I was ovulating anyway. It stressed me out beyond belief. Hormonally, I was all over the shop and I got really low emotionally."
The actress started searching for information about the drug, and wound up joining an online forum.
She explains: "Lots of people don't have that reaction, but, on the Internet, I found a Clomid Club, with people who react to the stuff discussing it online."
Helena ended up conceiving naturally; she'll give birth in December.

Helena Bonham Carter: 'I would have tried anything, even IVF'

Pregnancy at 41 certainly agrees with Helena Bonham Carter. Seven months into carrying her second child, vibrant and beaming, she is licking big globules of Marmite – her latest craving – off her fingers.
She knows she is lucky. Not because of her successful acting career maintained over 25 years but because, after trying for two long years, she finally managed to conceive naturally.
Bonham Carter already has one son, Billy Ray, four, with her partner, the cult film director Tim Burton, best known for the Gothic Edward Scissorhands and two of the Batman films.
But she was desperate to have a second child and, while more women are becoming mothers over the age of 40 – there has been a 50 per cent increase in the past 10 years – she was well aware that only 7.8 per cent of women over the age of 42 are able to conceive with their own eggs.
So, like many women in her position, the actress, whose career has moved from playing Merchant Ivory heroines to the evil Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter movies, was open to considering all options.
And while Bonham Carter is renowned for her interest in alternative therapies, after trying and failing to get pregnant she decided to try conventional fertility medicine. The experience was not a happy one.
She took a fertility drug called Clomid, which stimulates egg production, after being told that she might not have been ovulating. The drug, which was also taken by Jools Oliver, wife of the chef Jamie Oliver, and is prescribed on the NHS, tells the brain that not enough oestrogen is being produced. But Bonham Carter is angry that she was not warned about potential side-effects.
"I had a terrible reaction to it. Many people think it is the only thing that's going to make them ovulate, but as it turned out I was ovulating anyway. It stressed me out beyond belief. Hormonally, I was all over the shop and I got really low emotionally. Lots of people don't have that reaction, but on the internet I found a Clomid Club, with people who react to the stuff discussing it online."
Reassured that she was not the only one to suffer this way, she stopped using it and concentrated on alternative therapies. "I tried acupuncture two years ago," she says. "I went to the Chinese acupuncturist in Belsize Park. Dr Deng, who practices there, is brilliant, and has helped so many local people. She kept saying that I was 'too weak, too weak', and gave me several types of tea to help build my strength up."
She also tried Tui Na (literally "push and grasp"), a form of Chinese massage that follows the same pattern as acupuncture and is an alternative for patients anxious about needles.
But she still wasn't pregnant and the next option was to try IVF. "I think we probably would have, yes," she says now. "Obviously, you don't know what you'd do unless you were actually in that situation. I think we might have gone for a round of IVF, but that would have been that. There was an argument for just having one child, because we thought if that's the way it's meant to be, so be it."
Ironically, however, she finally became pregnant naturally, just when she was under intense pressure at work. Immersed in a demanding role as Mrs Lovett in the Stephen Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd (with Johnny Depp in the title role and directed by Burton), Bonham Carter was putting in long days with little sleep, singing for hours on end.
"I was working so hard at the time," she recalls. "The first three months being pregnant while filming, I felt totally spaced out. You do need to multi-task with acting. You've got to remember your marks, your lines, singing, everything, and actually – you have no brain! Suddenly your own brain is growing another person's brain, so yours goes defunct. It wasn't ideal, but then I was so happy to be pregnant."
At that time, she also returned to Listening Therapy, where patients listen to Mozart and Gregorian chants to help them unwind. The theory is that by exposing the muscles of the middle ear to different frequencies, concentration improves and stress decreases.
The therapy, based on the work of the French neurologist Alfred Tomatis, has been used to help children with learning difficulties but it is also offered to pregnant women to help them relax before giving birth.
Years ago, Bonham Carter used the therapy to learn a language for an acting role, and revisited it when she was expecting Billy Ray.
During pregnancy, the technique is supposed to produce an alert, relaxed, and physically toned baby, and an easy delivery because it calms the mother. "That was absolutely the case for me with Billy," she says. "Billy was able to hold his head up at a very early stage, he was very laid-back, and although I love chubby babies, Billy has always been physically toned. I really think listening therapy might have helped a lot. The birth wasn't drama-free, but I felt very relaxed."
Despite their reputation for unconventionality – they live in separate houses connected by a hallway – both she and Burton attended antenatal classes before Billy was born. A fan of homoeopathy, she would have preferred a natural birth but "when it came to it, I just went for an epidural", she says. "Although arnica and camomile were really helpful afterwards, what I'd like to know is if there is anything for new fathers." In fact there is; homoeopaths recommend Arg Nit (silver nitrate) or aconite, which can be used for shock and panic, as well as vitamin-B complex and Rescue Remedy.
This time Bonham Carter is, she says, more relaxed about her pregnancy although she has had to give up some treats. "One of my favourite dishes is carpaccio and I love sushi but I've avoided them during this pregnancy," she says. "Obviously anything with raw eggs is forbidden, too. I don't drink caffeine as much as I would normally and try to restrict myself to one cup of coffee a day."
Instead she has become a glutton for peppermint tea and is also snacking on goji berries, hailed as the latest superfood – they are said to have more betacarotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges and more iron than steak. As we speak, she wolfs down slices of soda bread with a generous layer of butter and large dollops of Marmite (enriched with Guinness).
She will be giving birth in a hospital again – although she does not reveal which hospital nor will she give details of her birth plan. Is it safe to assume that the hospital will run the show? Or will Burton revert to type and suggest a Gothic birth? There are gales of unrestrained laughter. "Oh no! The hospital I hope…"

HELENA RECOMMENDS…
Listening Therapy
Listening therapy was developed by Alfred Tomatis, a French neurologist who now has 200 centres around the world. Patients are "taught" by listening to a series of music tapes over six months. This is said to re-educate the middle-ear muscles and aid concentration. It is used to help children with problems such as attention deficit disorder and autism, and is also offered to pregnant women to make them feel more relaxed. www.tuneyourears.com
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese treatment, based on the premise that illness is due to an imbalance of "vital energy" (qi) said to flow through the body along 12 "meridians". Needles are stuck into these meridians to restore the energy. With lower back pain some studies have shown acupuncture achieves better results than conventional treatment, and it is also used for fertility problems, stress, addiction and pain relief. The British Acupuncture Council regulates acupuncturists. www.acupuncture.org.uk
Traditional Chinese medicine
TCM is a range of medical practices developed in China over several thousand years. Treatment is usually a combination of herbal remedies — either taken in tablet form or as a "tea" of barks, roots and herbs — acupuncture and Tui Na massage. There has been concern about unregistered and poorly trained practitioners working in the UK; registered TCM doctors can be found through the Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine. www.atcm.co.uk

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Su hijo nacería el 7 de diciembre

Helena Bonham Carter tendría a su hijo el próximo 7 de diciembre. Por supuesto, esto si no se adelanta.
Esto quiere decir que sería sagitariano, como yo :P

Helena en el Festival de Venecia

Helena Bonham Carter out and about

Actress Helena Bonham Carter, who is due with her second child in December, was photographed out and about in London.

Primera imagen de Helena con Depp en Sweeney Todd

Bebé en camino: villana de Hollywood está embarazada

La actriz Helena Bonham, 41 años, que interpreta a la villana Bellatrix Lestrange en la película Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix, está embarazada de su segundo hijo, según informa la revista People.
Este es el segundo hijo de la actriz y su marido, el cineasta Tim Burton, que ya tienen a Billy Raymond Burton, de 3 años.
El representante de la actriz, Karon Maskill, dijo : “Los dos están felices con la llegada de su segundo hijo, esperado para diciembre”.

Helena Bonham Carter announces pregnancy

Helena Bonham Carter is expecting her second child with film director Tim Burton, at the age of 41.
The pair met when the US filmmaker was directing Bonham Carter in Planet of the Apes and already have a three-year-old son, Billy.
Today her spokeswoman said: "Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton are very happy to be expecting their second child later this year."
Bonham Carter, the great granddaughter of former Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, had her first leading role at the age of 17 and shot to fame as a classic English rose in films like Howard's End and A Room With a View.
She went on to reinvent her image by playing a punk with steamy loves scenes with Brad Pitt in Fight Club and an ape in Planet of the Apes in 2001.
US filmmaker Burton, 48, the director of movies like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow, was with his fiancee, actress Lisa Marie, for ten years before he became involved with the English star.
Bonham Carter has always insisted that they began their affair after he broke up with his fiancee and that they were never romantically involved during the shooting of Planet of the Apes, in which Marie also starred.
Burton moved to the UK to be with his girlfriend but the couple have unusual living arrangements, sharing two houses with an adjoining corridor.
After having her first baby, the London-born actress said: "It's like an explosion of heart, love, everything - and it's extraordinary.
"It's changed everything. Everybody told me it would, and, of course, I didn't really listen, and there's no real way of describing it."
Burton, who was in the delivery room, recalled: "It was like my own private Alien movie. I'll tell you, it was the weirdest thing I've ever seen. It was amazing."

Helena Bonham Carter está embarazada

Si bien ninguno de ellos lo han confirmado, las fotos parecen hablar por sí solas. Éstas fueron tomadas el día de ayer en Italia.

Helena Bonham-Carter Interview (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

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GREEN SCREEN MADE BONHAM CARTER SICK

Working in front of a massive green screen as hellish BELLTRIX LESTRANGE in the new HARRY POTTER film made HELENA BONHAM CARTER sick. The British actress admits the make-believe scenes, in which she had to pretend things were flying around her, left her feeling nauseous. She says, "The Hall Of Prophecies where the globes are, that was just complete green space and a just total empty room. And it's pretty horrible. "It's really discombobulating and you can do some really bad acting in green screen. And a lot of time you feel so out of touch and not grounded and actually it's because you're in space and you have no idea what's around you. "It is really throwing and also it makes me feel sick actually that green because it's so bright."

Carter a witch like never a witch there was

Some actors might balk at being cast as an evil witch. Not Helena Bonham Carter.

The British actress revels in the role of sadistic sorceress Bellatrix Lestrange — fanatical follower of evil Lord Voldemort — in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the fifth film adapted from J.K. Rowling's wizarding saga, which opened in theaters around the world on Wednesday.

Bonham Carter blazes her way across the screen in her one big scene — a dramatic battle between Voldemort's Death Eaters and Harry's ragtag band of friends.

"I had about five lines, and I think they cut about three of them," said Bonham Carter, 41. "So I knew I had to be conspicuous."

Black-clad, wild-haired and cacklingly sadistic, Bellatrix escapes from Azkaban prison to join the resurgent Voldemort in his quest to destroy Harry and control the magical world.

Bonham Carter says she had a big say in creating her character's voluptuous-but-disheveled look.

"At first they thought, 'Oh, we'll just put her in a sack,' " Bonham Carter said. "But I said, 'There's no way I'm going to wear a sack. I've got to be a sexy witch.' "

"I wanted a sort of bodice thing to give me a shape," she said. "There is a bit of the warrior about her — Bellatrix means warrior. She's the right-hand Death Eater to Voldemort.

"I also wanted everything to be splitting at the seams and a bit of 'Sunset Boulevard' disintegration to be going on, because she's been in prison for so long. She has a very posh, aristocratic carriage, because she's pure-blooded, but at the same time, she's completely divorced from reality."

Like other Harry Potter fans worldwide, Bonham Carter is awaiting the July 21 publication of Rowling's seventh and final Potter novel, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," to learn the characters' fate. But she's been given a hint that Bellatrix may play a part.

While she was considering whether to accept the relatively small role in "Order of the Phoenix," she says, "J.K. Rowling sent a message saying she's going to be very significant in the last one."

Helena Bonham Carter relishes evil role

Some actors might balk at being cast as an evil witch. Not Helena Bonham Carter.

The British actress revels in the role of sadistic sorceress Bellatrix Lestrange -- fanatical follower of evil Lord Voldemort -- in “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the fifth film adapted from J.K. Rowling’s wizarding saga.

Bonham Carter blazes her way across the screen in her one big scene -- a dramatic battle between Voldemort’s Death Eaters and Harry’s ragtag band of friends.

“I had about five lines and I think they cut about three of them," Bonham Carter, 41, told The Associated Press. “So I knew I had to be conspicuous."

Black-clad, wild-haired and cacklingly/ssadistic, Bellatrix escapes from Azkaban prison to join the resurgent Voldemort in his quest to destroy Harry and control the magical world.

Like other Harry Potter fans worldwide, Bonham Carter is awaiting the July 21 publication of Rowling’s seventh and final Potter novel, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," to learn the characters’ fate. But she’s been given a hint that Bellatrix may play a part.

While she was considering whether to accept the relatively small role in “Order of the Phoenix," she says, “J.K. Rowling sent a message saying she’s going to be very significant in the last one."

“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," a Warner Bros. Pictures release, opens in theaters around the world starting Wednesday.

BONHAM CARTER LETS SLIP ABOUT HARRY POTTER CONCLUSION

Actress HELENA BONHAM CARTER has let slip a secret on the final chapter in the HARRY POTTER series. Cater, who plays Bellatrix Lestrange in the latest movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, only took the part after J.K. Rowling said her character has a big part to play in the final book. She tells London radio station Heart FM, "When I was offered Bellatrix I realised it wasn't a very big part. "One day J.K. sent me a message to say that I was going to be very significant in the seventh book so that was a bit of a carrot… "I am a big fan of Harry Potter anyway, the books, the genre, the whole world of Harry really… so I said yes."

'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' Premiere