SAG Awards Well Played (Comparatively) Carpet: Helena Bonham Carter 2011 adwards
You know, we often say that if HBC ever dressed in a standard-issue
ball gown, we’d be so bummed. But the thing is, I don’t know that I
really would be. Yes, sure, I’d miss the laughs — oh, how we laugh — but
lost amid all her red-carpet insanity is that Helena is a really
good-looking lady. So I like the fact that she took all the
glue-sniffing birds who usually build her outfits and locked them in
their cages, just once. This is probably the closest we’re going to get
to low-key in the Latter-Day HBC Era, and I plan to enjoy it. Even if
she does always wear skirts that make her feet look like
they’re on backwards. That’s a problem. Because this is still HBC. And
if you told me she’d had her feet removed and then reattached to the
opposite ankle just for giggles, I’d be like, “Yeah, that sounds right.
Pass the pretzels.”
She looks kind of sassy and world-weary here, like a retired French
prostitute who sees herself in the new ho on the block, and so takes her
under her wing and tries to save her through tough love and lots of
baths.
