Helena Bonham Carter Sick Of Playing Corset Sex Symbol
February 12, 2010
Apparently Helena Bonham Carter is pleased her young acting days are over, and she doesn’t have to play the ‘corset sex symbol’ anymore.
Now 43, Bonham Carter made her name playing the upper- class characters in period dramas such as ‘A Room With A View’, ‘Howard’s End’, and ‘The Wings Of A Dove’. Helena says that over the last decade she has opted for darker roles, and reckons she doesn’t crave the days being typecast as an early 20th century heroine.
In an interview with an English newspaper she said, “Ageing has helped hugely. There’s no question I’m a better actor, and you leave behind a certain typecasting. I was like the corset bimbo. Well, not quite bimbo, but you know what I mean. The corset sex symbol, I suppose. Now I’m not going to be the sex symbol, I’m going to be the granny.”
Photo By Samantha Jade Royds
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