Helena Bonham Carter on soaps, sexism and the death of cinema
Helena Bonham Carter believes Noele 'Nolly' Gordon, who died from cancer in 1985, was cut off in her primeIf you're under 45, you've probably never heard of Noele 'Nolly' Gordon. But you'll have heard of A-list actress Helena Bonham Carter and It's A Sin and Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies.
"Yet when I spoke to the cast, it was the opposite picture. They loved her. Someone who was a very powerful, successful woman has been spoken of as a bitch afterwards. How does that automatically happen? It's monstrous. She's tough, strong and opinionated [but] you wouldn't use those words on a man."
The star was also the first woman to interview a British prime minister . Her talent was vast and varied.have been a loose woman," Davies tells me enthusiastically, referencing the current ITV1 lunchtime show. "I feel like championing her, I'm championing every woman of a certain age. We might just be cut off because we're deemed too old. Hang on, we can't be irrelevant and obsolete - we're just getting to know how to do everything!"London-born Nolly never married and had no children, which was considered a curiosity at the time - although her devoted on-screen children Jill and Sandy called her mother off set as well as on.
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