Helena Bonham Carter on Grok, The Traitors & Agatha Christie

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Helena Bonham Carter on Grok, The Traitors & Agatha Christie Report by Mccallumj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Hello, Helena. We meet again. You look amazing. I love this far.

00:03Thank you very much. You're just so effortlessly cool.

00:06Do you know that? It's not effortless.

00:07It's just flipping hours.

00:09She's a village. I know. I know the feeling.

00:11Hours. And we all, us women, we have to spend hours doing this.

00:14Honestly. I'm so bored of it.

00:16Same.

00:17I mean, I like the dressing up, but the fact is, like,

00:20but when you have to dress up, you know.

00:23Anyway.

00:24You would think with all the technology there would be a way that we could just...

00:27AI. You know what I mean?

00:28We could do that.

00:29Well, there's filters now, but it's a dangerous game.

00:31No, but then also they take the clothes off us, don't they?

00:33I know. Well, this is a problem.

00:35It's gone too far.

00:36Yeah, but maybe they make me look better than I actually am.

00:39This is what I think.

00:40Positive about Grock. Is it Grock?

00:42Grock, yeah.

00:43It's a horrible name as well.

00:44Oh, it's hideous.

00:46The whole world's going just shiny.

00:48We're not even, like, a minute in.

00:50We can't even go there.

00:51But we need, because everything's going wrong,

00:54we need something as comfortable and reliable, entertaining.

00:58As a good old Agatha Christie.

01:00I love it.

01:01We're not even a minute in and we're putting the world to rights.

01:03But that's what women do, right?

01:05Well, that's what we can do.

01:07Yeah.

01:08Yeah, and then the men...

01:09Exactly.

01:10But listen, love Agatha Christie.

01:12Queen of Crime.

01:13What was it like starring in one of her series and bringing it to the screen?

01:17It was really fun to be sent it because I've always been a real admirer

01:21and then I just thought, I've always admired her and she's always fascinated me.

01:24But then I don't think I've actually read one book of hers.

01:27But I've always been aware of her.

01:29So it gave me an excuse to concentrate on her.

01:33And I read Lucy Worsley's biography.

01:36Really fascinating.

01:37And the documentary.

01:39She's done a really good documentary series.

01:42And she is amazing.

01:43And so fascinating in herself.

01:46So my character doesn't exist in the book.

01:50It's a man.

01:52It's the father.

01:53I'm Bundle's mum.

01:55But in the book, it's Bundle's dad.

01:57So Chibnall took my character.

02:00And that's why I went to Lucy Worsley because I realized...

02:04I started becoming Agatha.

02:06Well, you know, going...

02:08Thinking that I could be Agatha and going around detecting.

02:12And I thought...

02:13I came to the read-through going to Chibnall saying,

02:15It's Agatha, isn't it?

02:16You never know who Katram's first name is.

02:18And I said, She's Agatha, isn't she?

02:20And there's a lot of Agatha in her and Agatha's mum.

02:23And a lot of...

02:24There's a lot of autobiography that she put into this one.

02:28Because this is a young...

02:30Young...

02:31What's the word?

02:33Lead.

02:34You know, as opposed to Marple and Quarrow.

02:37But...

02:38And, you know, Bundle's like her speed...

02:41Love for speedy cars.

02:43And being a bundle of energy.

02:44I think Agatha had prodigious energy.

02:47But she also had a real sense of...

02:50She lost her dad very young.

02:52And her life pre-dad and post-dad was very different.

02:56And I think that moment, that fulcrum,

02:59is something that she explored in this.

03:01Absolutely.

03:02And I love a murder mystery.

03:03I also love the traitors.

03:05Can we please get you on the celebrity traitors?

03:08I think you'd be amazing.

03:09I really do.

03:10I haven't actually watched it.

03:11Isn't that terrible too?

03:12Maybe that's good though.

03:14Because if you went in not having watched it...

03:16Yeah.

03:17Then will I...

03:18I think I'd be quite good at lying,

03:19if that's what's required.

03:20But I also think you've been amazing faithful.

03:22I think you'd figure people out as well.

03:23I am pretty good on figuring people out.

03:26Yes.

03:27Yeah.

03:28Please.

03:29We've got to make it happen.

03:30I'll talk to my bosses, right?

03:31Can you?

03:32Yeah, yeah.

03:33Is it an ITV show?

03:34No, it's a BBC show.

03:35Oh, okay.

03:36So don't talk to your bosses.

03:37I'll talk to the hypothetical bosses.

03:38Yeah, yeah.

03:39I'll just put it out there in the universe.

03:40See?

03:41You called me out, you know?

03:42Yeah, yeah, yeah.

03:43You can talk to your bosses if you want.

03:46A Helena Bonham Carter special traitors show.

03:49Yeah.

03:50On ITV.

03:51Yeah, why not?

03:52With nobody else.

03:53Just me alone.

03:54I'd watch it.

03:55In a castle.

03:56I'd watch it.

03:57A castle in the Highlands.

03:58Yeah.

03:59I'll be your Claudia.

04:00Yeah, all right.

04:01Okay, okay.

04:02Having fun with the wig and everything.

04:03Yeah.

04:04Listen, absolute icon.

04:05So lovely to see you again.

04:06Thank you so much.

04:07Thank you so much.

04:08Very nice to meet you and chat.

04:09Aw, thank you.

04:10I love that.

04:11Take care.

04:12Aw.

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