Helena's bridal path to despair as Miss Havisham in Dickens' masterpiece

By Baz Bamigboye
Last updated at 1:55 AM on 4th November 2011

Helena Bonham Carter sits, as still as a porcelain doll in her layers and layers of lace and taffeta silk, in a darkened room, plotting her revenge on men.
She resembles some preserved exotic fruit: perfect on the outside, but rotting from within for 20 years.

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‘In a sense, she’s a feast for the eyes,’ said Elizabeth Karlsen, who is producing director
Mike Newell’s new version of Great Expectations with Stephen Woolley and executives from BBC Films and Lionsgate.

The Oscar-nominated actress is playing Miss Havisham in Dickens’ masterpiece, which is
being filmed on locations in and around London.
‘She’s this lonely soul who has become a  manipulator,’ Karlsen noted.
Helena’s magnificent costume was designed by Beatrix Aruna Pasztor. It looks so exquisite it could have been part of a glossy feature, created by Grace Coddington, for U.S. Vogue.
Joining Helena in the film are Ralph Fiennes as Magwitch, Holliday Grainger as Estella, Robbie Coltrane as Mr Jaggers, Jason Flemyng as Joe Gargery, Sally Hawkins as his wife.
Meanwhile, Jeremy Irvine — soon to be seen in Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated epic War Horse — as Pip


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