Helena Bonham Carter poses in character as Princess Margaret on the new digital cover of Town & Country magazine.
The beloved actress is starring in season three of Netflix’s The Crown and she’s featured in a cool moving image for the magazine’s digital cover, which you can see in action below. Here’s what she had to share with the mag:
On her family connection to Princess Margaret: “My uncle courted Margaret at one point. They went on to become good, longtime friends. She would be at his parties, and you were very aware that a princess was there. I remember going, ‘I mustn’t turn my back on her, I mustn’t turn my back on her.’”
On Princess Margaret’s obsession to be taller than she was: “She didn’t have a complex about being number two, she had a complex about being short. That’s why she wore the Poltimore Tiara, which was at least four inches tall, at her wedding. She even had the seat of her car raised so that she could be visible. The risk that she might be literally overlooked was the problem, not the fact that she was her sister’s younger sister.”
On wondering if Princess Margaret would be happy she played her: “One of her idiosyncrasies was complimenting somebody and putting them down at the same time. She once said to me, ‘Oh, you’re getting so much better at acting,’ and I thought that was really funny. Now, I think she’d be grateful that I was getting better, since she’s been entrusted to me. If I was a shit actress, it would be like, ‘Oh no, not her!’”
For more from Helena, visit TownAndCountryMag.com!