Trailer: Planet of the Apes (2001)
Here’s the trailer to Tim Burton’s “The Planet of the Apes”. Helena was playing “Ari” – the human rights activist.
Helena at the 1987 Academy Awards
Another stroll down memory lane… Here are some photos of Helena at the 1987 Oscars (Academy Awards). They took place on March 30, 1987 and “A Room With A View” was nominated for 8 awards and eventually received 3 nods (art direction, costumes, adapted screenplay).
Helena, together with Matthew Broderick, presented the award for best short documentary, and here are some photos:
She said about the event:
“I remember in A Room With A View year, I was asked to present something at the Oscars with Matthew Broderick. I didn’t know what to wear, so I just went and got a dress from my cupboard. It was a tulle thing from Miss Selfridge (an inexpensive High Street clothes store in Britain). I shoved a skirt of my mother’s underneath it. And tied my own bow on the front. It had flair, I suppose, but looked a nightmare. No-one told me. I even did my own hair and make-up. A friend of my mother’s said afterwards ‘You looked completely green. Was there something wrong with you?’ I remember journalists asking me who I was wearing. They wanted to know the name of the designer. I just said ‘The skirt’s from my Mum’.”
Helena talking about Ophelia, Hamlet and more
This is a great and lengthy interview with a young Helena. It’s from 1990 where she discusses her role of Ophelia in Mel Gibson’s Hamlet.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2366227706078148074&hl=en
Helena, Pantaloonies and Charity
If anyone would like to have their jeans customized by Helena (and her Pantaloonies partner Samantha Sage) and help to raise funds for the Youth Music Theatre in London, check out this page:
http://www.youth-music-theatre.org.uk/auction.html
By the way, this is one of the many occasions where Helena has donated or created something which was then offered in a charity auction. I think it’s great that she uses her fame to help others! Go, Helena!
Video of Helena talking about Bellatrix
Here’s a youtube video of a recent ABC special on the next Harry Potter film. Lots of behind the scene Bella footoage: