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.

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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