Sugar Covered Quills

The Daily Express recently printed their interview with Emma Watson where she spoke about her studies, acting, fashion and many more. She talked about adjusting to her college lifestyle, living a normal life at Brown University despite some advice from Daniel Radcliffe, going into fashion and acting in the future.

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The Orlando United has posted new aerial images of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Aside from the Hogwarts Castle, one can also see the streets of Hogsmeade and Hagrid’s Hut almost taking shape. Its only in a few months time when the theme park will be opened to the public. Its schedule to open this Spring.

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British actress Helen Bonham Carter is no typical actress. She thrives on out of this world characters and likes to be out of the ordinary. In fact, ever since her collaboration with her director/screen writer husband Tim Burton, Helena is known to have an eye for quirky, weird and extra ordinary.

She will next be seen in the screen adaptation of the classic Alice in Wonderland where she plays the red queen, who is bent to chop all of the heads in her kingdom. Here is an excerpt of her interview with UK’s The Guardian:

We are in the cafe just down the road from her north London home. She says she’s got something to show me, and produces a freaky cardboard cutout of a little woman with a huge, hydro encephalised head. “I’ve brought myself. It’s me… in Alice.” Alice In Wonderland is the ­latest movie she has made with her partner, ­director Tim Burton. This is their sixth ­collaboration, and possibly the grandest (it’s certainly the most expensive, at an estimated $250m). It’s classic Burton territory – a fairytale world where adulthood is never quite attained, and innocence trails a ghoulish stench. Bonham Carter is playing nasty – a cross between the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts. She holds up her cardboard self and addresses it. “She’s got Tourette’s. She just says, ‘Off with their heads!’ all the time.”

Bonham Carter has not yet seen the film. No one has. It’s a closely guarded secret. But then, you won’t get far asking her about any film she’s been in. In recent years, she has boycotted them. She can’t stand watching herself. Nor can Johnny Depp, Burton’s prettier alter ego, who plays the Mad Hatter in Alice. “Johnny doesn’t watch anything he’s in. That’s slightly comforting. You think if Johnny Depp can’t watch himself…”

Once she got together with Burton, Bonham Carter’s image was transformed. They were often photographed together in black, their complexions equally pale, hair equally scruffy. She’d be snapped pushing the kids up the hill looking as if she’d just stepped out of bed. After giving birth, she was happy to have photographs released showing the saggy bits. It became de rigueur to be rude about her appearance. But however unkempt or flabby she was, she still looked lovely. “I’m often criticised for what I wear. That’s my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!” I think she half likes it – it’s an escape from the pretty-prettiness of her youth. She’s not so sure. “Well, no, sometimes it’s really offensive, but it’s kind of affectionate now. We’re like the ‘bonkers couple’.”

Today, she looks as if she could have walked straight out of a Burton film – black, flowery dress, black skirt, black, flowery, knee-length socks, black boots ripe for giving someone a kicking, and so many chains and lockets and fob watches around her neck, it’s amazing she can hold her head up. She is often described as a goth, but she says she isn’t sure what that means. “I don’t like the music particularly, I’ve got no goth records. Is it the predominant black? The make-up? And the whiteness? The white thing. Yes… Tim sometimes puts grey make-up on for the press and he doesn’t tell me, so afterwards I’m like, ‘You’re ill!’ He goes, nah, it’s the grey make-up. Heeheeehee!”

She’s still musing on their supposed gothness. “He doesn’t like the music, either. But we do dress up at Halloween.” Do they just stay at home in their make-up, or go out? “No, we go out and play. I don’t know… well, he likes death… It’s not that he likes it, but he’s considered it in his work.”

To read her complete interview, click on the link above.

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