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Carter: I can pretend to fancy Depp, I suppose

Mon 14 Jan 12:20 PM

Helena Bonham Carter had no shame in lusting after Johnny Depp in her new film, Sweeney Todd, which is directed by her long-term lover Tim Burton.

The actress, who plays Mrs Lovett, was asked by Bang Showbiz whether she found how role in the movie odd. "Weirdly not," she said, "maybe it should have been, but, you know, I was pretending."

Bonham Carter also revealed how she felt obliged to try particularly hard in her audition because she didn't want to run the risk of people saying she got the part because of her relationship with Burton.

"I would say it made it much harder for me to get the part because the director was my boyfriend. He told me, 'You look right for it and, potentially, you are perfect for the role, but we have no idea if you can sing…But at the end of the day, Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the original musical, had the final say and I definitely didn't sleep with him."