Daniel Radcliffe takes interview of Helena Boham Carter.Helena Boham Cater is Daniel Radcliffe X co-worker from Harry Potter series in which Daniel plays the role Harry Potter and Helena lays the role of evil Bellatrix (This info for those Dan fans know him from Women In Black.for Harry Potter fans we know you are not living under the rock)
As we all know Daniel Radcliffe want to be a journalist if he is not an actor so he practice his journalist skills on Helna Boham Carter. interviewmagazine.com can say it n interview but its more of a friendly Chat between Helna Boham Carter and Daniel Radcliffe.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER: Do you think so?
RADCLIFFE: Well, you're descended from a prime minister, several politicians, and a very influential director. And your maternal granddad was a Spanish diplomat who was awarded the Righteous Among the Nations a few years ago, which is amazing. And your mother is a psychotherapist.
BONHAM CARTER: Wow. You know more than I do.
RADCLIFFE: But that intellectual milieu—how did that launch you? Because you did start young.
BONHAM CARTER: It was nothing to do with where I came from, in the sense that mum and dad never brought us up with any kind of pressure. There weren't any expectations, which was great. But I was incredibly self-critical and very driven. Thank god I got slightly less self-critical as I got older.
RADCLIFFE: Have you then? Does that go slightly?
BONHAM CARTER: Oh yes. Don't worry. It's so much better when you get older.
RADCLIFFE: Oh, thank god.
BONHAM CARTER: I think you physically fall apart. But mentally, it's so much easier.
RADCLIFFE: I certainly suffer from a slight inferiority complex when I step into a room of other actors because I've never trained, and I know you haven't either.
BONHAM CARTER: Oh, I had a big inferiority complex till yesterday.
RADCLIFFE: But not today!
BONHAM CARTER: Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.
RADCLIFFE: Right. And so that boredom is actually what ultimately leads you to go, "Oh, fuck it."
BONHAM CARTER: "Fuck it" is my guiding philosophy.
RADCLIFFE: I think people see your career as almost having two halves, one where you played this kind of ingénue. And then there's a perception that around the time you met Tim [Burton], you started getting weird. But I know you'd been weird long before that.
BONHAM CARTER: I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did mess with my head, being well-known young, when you really don't know who you are. This is how ridiculous I was: I'd sometimes go look at a written profile of me and see how I was described and say, "Oh, is that who I am?" You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.
RADCLIFFE: Typecast is a strange word. All characters are not the same. It's a very easy thing to say that somebody's typecast.
BONHAM CARTER: All those corseted period-dramas. But what was so great about those parts was that they were all from novels. They provided, instantly, way more subtle characterization. I remember that my agent said, "You can't do Where Angels Fear to Tread [1991] and Howard's End [1992]." I said, "Why not? Show me a better part."
RADCLIFFE: Your Harry Potter character, Bellatrix Lestrange, is one of the scariest characters in the books. But I think it's fair to say that she is very playful and quite sexy as well.
BONHAM CARTER: When they sent the part, I thought, What am I going to do here? Because, actually, on the page, she wasn't all there, so I thought, Well, you've got to be noticed. And Bellatrix-kids were terrified of her. So I think, Okay, I've got to be scary. But then also, if you're with kids, you want to have fun being naughty.
The interview was updated by the magazine.you can red it below
In A Room with a View (1985), 19-year-old Helena Bonham Carter gave an indelible performance as Lucy Honeychurch, E.M. Forrester's pensive heroine who chooses between love and propriety in Edwardian England. So perfectly did the striking young actress-with her wide eyes, dark tresses, and milky skin-bring to life such literary characters as Lucy (not to mention tragic teenagers Lady Jane Grey and Ophelia) that she quickly became the archetypal period-drama protagonist. But by the late '90s, Bonham Carter began to play against type, taking on roles considerably quirkier and edgier than the rose-lipped maidens of her more conventionally corseted phase. The more damaged the character, the more challenging the conditions, the better-at least that's what Bonham Carter seemed to have been saying by going on to take on the role of a paraplegic in 1998's The Theory of Flight, opposite then-boyfriend Kenneth Branagh. The following year, she played the spiky-haired, chain-smoking love interest to Brad Pitt/Edward Norton's Tyler Durden in David Fincher's Fight Club (1999). For that role, the London-born actress demonstrated her willingness to get dark and a little maniacal. That she is also not afraid to make herself look grotesque or even ridiculous is part of her charm. Think of the set of gnarly false teeth she sported as the evil Bellatrix Lestrange in three Harry Potter movies. Or her willingness to transform herself into a primate, as she did for Planet of the Apes (2001), a film which, though perhaps not itself a critical high-water mark in her career, signaled the beginning of her ongoing personal and professional relationship with its director, Tim Burton. In Bonham Carter, Burton found the perfect muse for slyly macabre fantasy fiction. Over the past decade they have made seven films together-and more than a few of the Bonham Carter's characters in those movies have been touched by madness. In fact, some of them have been downright scary, such as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street's meat pie-baking accomplice Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (2007), and the tyrannical Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland (2010).Evilness aside, the witchy voluptuousness of some of Bonham Carter's on-screen characters is not dissimilar from her infamously whimsical off-screen style. Her fondness for dressing in eccentric, multilayered ensembles has for years landed her on both best- and worst-dressed lists. As a nominee for best actress at the 2011 Golden Globes for her work in The King's Speech, Bonham Carter walked the red carpet wearing a low-cut Vivienne Westwood number in tulle-covered floral accessorized with different shoes: one red and the other green. Predictably, this kind of irreverent move had its share of detractors, but it was precisely its devil-may-care zaniness that inspired Marc Jacobs to ask her to be the face of his Fall 2011 ad campaign.
Bonham Carter's latest collaboration with Burton is the new film Dark Shadows. Due out this month, it is based on the late 1960s Gothic soap opera of the same name, and tells the story of a 200-year-old vampire (played by another Burton regular, Johnny Depp) who returns home to descendents so deeply troubled that they have invited a psychiatrist with a drinking problem (Bonham Carter) to live with them.
Whether she's playing an English rose or a sadomasochistic witch, Bonham Carter has never ceased to be interesting-as her Harry Potter costar, Daniel Radcliffe, well knows. Radcliffe visited with the 45-year-old Bonham Carter at one of the two homes she shares with Burton and their two children in London.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: You have quite an overachieving family.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER: Do you think so?
RADCLIFFE: Well, you're descended from a prime minister, several politicians, and a very influential director. And your maternal granddad was a Spanish diplomat who was awarded the Righteous Among the Nations a few years ago, which is amazing. And your mother is a psychotherapist.
BONHAM CARTER: Wow. You know more than I do.
RADCLIFFE: But that intellectual milieu—how did that launch you? Because you did start young.
BONHAM CARTER: It was nothing to do with where I came from, in the sense that mum and dad never brought us up with any kind of pressure. There weren't any expectations, which was great. But I was incredibly self-critical and very driven. Thank god I got slightly less self-critical as I got older.
RADCLIFFE: Have you then? Does that go slightly?
BONHAM CARTER: Oh yes. Don't worry. It's so much better when you get older.
RADCLIFFE: Oh, thank god.
BONHAM CARTER: I think you physically fall apart. But mentally, it's so much easier.
RADCLIFFE: I certainly suffer from a slight inferiority complex when I step into a room of other actors because I've never trained, and I know you haven't either.
BONHAM CARTER: Oh, I had a big inferiority complex till yesterday.
RADCLIFFE: But not today!
BONHAM CARTER: Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room. But then when you have children and you get older, it doesn't really matter. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.
RADCLIFFE: Right. And so that boredom is actually what ultimately leads you to go, "Oh, fuck it."
BONHAM CARTER: "Fuck it" is my guiding philosophy.
RADCLIFFE: I think people see your career as almost having two halves, one where you played this kind of ingénue. And then there's a perception that around the time you met Tim [Burton], you started getting weird. But I know you'd been weird long before that.
BONHAM CARTER: I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did mess with my head, being well-known young, when you really don't know who you are. This is how ridiculous I was: I'd sometimes go look at a written profile of me and see how I was described and say, "Oh, is that who I am?" You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.
RADCLIFFE: Typecast is a strange word. All characters are not the same. It's a very easy thing to say that somebody's typecast.
BONHAM CARTER: All those corseted period-dramas. But what was so great about those parts was that they were all from novels. They provided, instantly, way more subtle characterization. I remember that my agent said, "You can't do Where Angels Fear to Tread [1991] and Howard's End [1992]." I said, "Why not? Show me a better part."
RADCLIFFE: Your Harry Potter character, Bellatrix Lestrange, is one of the scariest characters in the books. But I think it's fair to say that she is very playful and quite sexy as well.
BONHAM CARTER: When they sent the part, I thought, What am I going to do here? Because, actually, on the page, she wasn't all there, so I thought, Well, you've got to be noticed. And Bellatrix-kids were terrified of her. So I think, Okay, I've got to be scary. But then also, if you're with kids, you want to have fun being naughty.
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