Thursday, 6 October 2011

Helena Bonham Carter Interview (King’s Speech DVD)


In this interview Helena first talks about the role she is playing, then goes on to describe the fact that she is portraying a real person.

“It’s always tricky to play someone who actually lived. It’s your responsibility and you do have to be polite, I think, and respectful ... with the Queen’s Mother, it was quite different – she’s got this very soft, sweet, somewhat vague, you know, gentle exterior, but I think underneath, there’s a whole other personality going on and I wanted to play that duality, really, and that underneath she was very strong and that it was her strength that kept him going”

I believe this will be very effective in discussing her various roles and performances as she talks about the difficulties in portraying a real person and also how she chooses to interpret her role, which helps her get into character for the film.

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