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2011-12-22 10:17:11 UTC
'She's an alcoholic psychiatrist, so I hadn't played that before,'
actress tells MTV News.
By John Mitchell
.
We're still waiting for a teaser trailer for the hottest vampire movie
that doesn't sparkle in the sun. Details about "Dark Shadows" have been
scant, but one of the film's stars is finally talking about her role and
what inspired director Tim Burton to take on the project.
At this week's BAFTA Britannia Awards, MTV News spoke to two-time Oscar
nominee Helena Bonham Carter about "Shadows," her role in the film and
what made her real-life love Burton want to director the vampire epic,
which is set to hit theaters May 11, 2012. "I love 'Dark Shadows.' It's
very original. It's uncategorizable," Bonham Carter said. "It's going to
be impossible to sell, frankly, because it's just so ... it's a soap
opera but it's very, very subtle.
It's a ghost story but then it's an unhappy vampire story. It's a
mixture of so many different things and a real ensemble piece. And
hopefully it will be funny."
Bonham Carter plays Dr. Julia Hoffman. In the late-'60s television soap
opera on which the movie is based, Hoffman specialized in psychology and
rare blood disorders and eventually tried to cure Barnabas Collins
(played in the film by Burton regular Johnny Depp) of his vampirism by
injecting him with a vaccine made of healthy plasma to counteract the
destruction of his own blood cells by the vampire cells. (Got that?)
Whether that's part of the film's plot remains to be seen, but Bonham
Carter did have a colorful response for MTV News when asked about
playing Hoffman.
"I did love playing her. I mean, she's an alcoholic psychiatrist, so I
hadn't played that before," she said. "And she's got a secret. They all
have secrets."
She also explained that "Shadows" has long been something of a passion
project for Burton, with whom she has two children, because the quirky
director was a huge fan of the TV show as a child. "This was a thing
that he raced home to see when he was about age 10," she told MTV. "So
it was returning to his childhood roots of what he loved watching."
The always outrageous actress was also pretty frank about her own
feelings about the campy soap, saying, "It's actually a really bad,
hilariously bad soap opera. And because it's so bad, [Burton] felt he
had to make a hugely expensive movie."
actress tells MTV News.
By John Mitchell
.
We're still waiting for a teaser trailer for the hottest vampire movie
that doesn't sparkle in the sun. Details about "Dark Shadows" have been
scant, but one of the film's stars is finally talking about her role and
what inspired director Tim Burton to take on the project.
At this week's BAFTA Britannia Awards, MTV News spoke to two-time Oscar
nominee Helena Bonham Carter about "Shadows," her role in the film and
what made her real-life love Burton want to director the vampire epic,
which is set to hit theaters May 11, 2012. "I love 'Dark Shadows.' It's
very original. It's uncategorizable," Bonham Carter said. "It's going to
be impossible to sell, frankly, because it's just so ... it's a soap
opera but it's very, very subtle.
It's a ghost story but then it's an unhappy vampire story. It's a
mixture of so many different things and a real ensemble piece. And
hopefully it will be funny."
Bonham Carter plays Dr. Julia Hoffman. In the late-'60s television soap
opera on which the movie is based, Hoffman specialized in psychology and
rare blood disorders and eventually tried to cure Barnabas Collins
(played in the film by Burton regular Johnny Depp) of his vampirism by
injecting him with a vaccine made of healthy plasma to counteract the
destruction of his own blood cells by the vampire cells. (Got that?)
Whether that's part of the film's plot remains to be seen, but Bonham
Carter did have a colorful response for MTV News when asked about
playing Hoffman.
"I did love playing her. I mean, she's an alcoholic psychiatrist, so I
hadn't played that before," she said. "And she's got a secret. They all
have secrets."
She also explained that "Shadows" has long been something of a passion
project for Burton, with whom she has two children, because the quirky
director was a huge fan of the TV show as a child. "This was a thing
that he raced home to see when he was about age 10," she told MTV. "So
it was returning to his childhood roots of what he loved watching."
The always outrageous actress was also pretty frank about her own
feelings about the campy soap, saying, "It's actually a really bad,
hilariously bad soap opera. And because it's so bad, [Burton] felt he
had to make a hugely expensive movie."
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