She's the embittered spinster living in the faded grandeur of her decaying mansion and described as ‘the witch of the place’ in Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations.
So you know you’re getting older when English rose Helena Bonham Carter is cast in the role of wealthy recluse Miss Havisham in a lavish new film adaptation of the novel.
With her youthful looks and blemish-free skin, Ms Bonham Carter, 46, couldn’t be further from Dickens’s original Miss Havisham, the heiress locked in the past after being jilted at the altar as a young bride, and now living out her days in her ruined mansion, still dressed in her wedding finery.
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