Queen of the coolest movie roles, Helena Bonham Carter is set to get her teeth into another killer part.
Director Tim Burton (her husband) has tapped Carter to star as murderous meat pie-maker Mrs. Lovett in movie-musical ‘Sweeney Todd’ opposite Johnny Depp.
Her character puts victim’s bodies in meat pies and becomes the accomplice of the demon barber (Depp‘s title character).
and her husband Tim Burton
‘Borat’ and ‘Ali G’ star Sacha Baron Cohen is rumoured to be in the running for the role of barber Signor Adolfo Pirelli.
Helena has previously starred in ‘Big Fish’, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ and ‘Planet of the Apes’ - which were all directed by her husband Tim.
Shooting on the movie will start early in 2007 and will be released at the end of the year.
