Helena Bonham Carter is perhaps best known for her work as the thoroughly wicked Bellatrix
Lestrange in the Harry Potter films, but what is this intriguing actress up to now?
From exciting projects to royal connections, Bonham Carter continues to cast her spell
on Hollywood.
There's quite a bit of secrecy surrounding the upcoming mystery film Enola Holmes, an
adaptation of Nancy Springer's Edgar Award-nominated young adult detective books.
Millie Bobby Brown is set to play the title role, the younger sister of the more well-known
Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, who will be played by Henry Cavill and Sam Claflin.
And Bonham Carter is onboard as their mother Eudoria.
As for the crew behind the camera, TV veteran Harry Bradbeer is in the director's chair,
while Jack Thorne is penning the screenplay.
This could be the start of a long-running gig for Bonham Carter, as there are six books
in the series.
Depending on the success of this first film, which is slated for a 2020 release, there
could be many more adventures for Enola and her family on the silver screen.
In July 2018, Netflix revealed that Bonham Carter would be playing Queen Elizabeth's
star-crossed sister Princess Margaret in Season 3 of The Crown, which sees Olivia Colman take
over for Claire Foy in the lead role.
Bonham Carter has expressed trepidation about the role, saying in a statement,
"I'm not sure which I'm more terrified about; doing justice to the real Princess Margaret
or following in the shoes of Vanessa Kirby.
The only thing I can guarantee is that I'll be shorter than Vanessa."
Season 3 is expected to take place between 1964 and 1977, so we might see some of the
marital troubles that lead to Margaret's scandal-plagued 1978 divorce.
On August 12, Netflix announced that the new batch of episodes would arrive on November
17, 2019.
Netflix is the place to be for Bonham Carter in 2019 as she is also set to appear in The
Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, which drops August 30.
The series serves as a prequel to Jim Henson's 1982 adventure film The Dark Crystal, and
like the original, it will feature puppetry instead of computer animation.
"The idea is that you watch the show, and you forget you're watching puppets."
Bonham Carter is set to play The All-Maudra, the matriarch leader of the Gelfling clans.
The rest of the all-star cast will include such names as Taron Egerton, Anya Taylor-Joy,
Nathalie Emmanuel, Sigourney Weaver, and Andy Samberg.
The story will follow three Gelflings, who are a kindly race of elvish humanoids, as
they form a rebellion against the malevolent characters known as the Skeksis.
Helena Bonham Carter apparently isn't the nostalgic type.
When she was awarded a fellowship by the British Film Institute in 2012, she said she follows
her father's advice to just "KBO," meaning "keep buggering on."
However, the struggles she faced to make the based-on-a-true-story film 55 Steps will probably
stay with her for a very long time.
As she told The Guardian,
"It's a miracle this film got made.
It's fallen apart so many times."
The movie stars Bonham Carter as Eleanor Riese, a California psychiatric patient who in the
1980s successfully fought for the legal right to refuse antipsychotic drugs.
This project proved to be quite personal for Carter.
When she was 13, her father, Raymond, suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed following
a procedure to remove a growth in his brain.
As filming for 55 Steps wrapped, she realized how deeply she'd connected to the material.
She told The Guardian,
"I thought: 'Of course I'm doing this film because of my flipping father, because he
also had a medical intervention on the brain that went wrong.'"
Bonham Carter may have split from director Tim Burton in 2014 after 13 years together
as a couple, but like many exes the world over they still share parenting duties.
What's not so typical is that the former partners live next door to each other.
In 2016, she told Harper's Bazaar UK,
"We have a weird living arrangement, which now suits us fine.
It's really good because it hasn't caused much change for the children, which is our
top priority.
We still operate as a family."
She may have scarred children the world over as the evil Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry
Potter flicks, but to her own kids Billy and Nell, she's just a mom with an eccentric fashion
sense.
And perhaps not surprisingly, public jaunts with the kids include trips to the movies
every now and then.
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