Helena Bonham Carter simply shared her refreshing outlook on growing older with BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.
The 56-year-old actress, who’s at the moment portraying real-life cleaning soap star Noele Gordon on the TV miniseries Nolly stated, “I’m definitely the cliche of saying, I’m miles happier than I was younger. I don’t want to ever go back there.”
“Every single magazine, Instagram, anything, it’s all about thou shalt not age,” the London-born actress defined. “It’s a dirty word, aging. We’re all obsessed with it, it’s sort of pathological. It’s almost a crime, the shame attached.”
When the interviewer requested Bonham Carter how she avoids succumbing to society’s pressures on growing older she replied, “Who says I don’t? I’ll do what makes me happy, you know, and hopefully not make me look ridiculous. At the end of the day, you can get really obsessed. We can’t actually control what we look like, but we think we can, and in fact there’s so much else we should worry about.”
Bonham Carter started appearing in 1983. Since then she has performed such iconic roles as Marla Singer in Fight Club, Bellatrix Lestrange within the Harry Potter franchise, Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Queen Elizabeth in The King’s Speech and Princess Margaret on The Crown.
In a November 2022 interview with The Sunday Times, Carter spoke in regards to the challenges that include reaching a sure age as a lady, particularly as a mum or dad to 2 youngsters. (Carter shares her kids Billy, 19, and Nell, 15, along with her former accomplice Tim Burton.)
“I’m post-menopausal now, I think, but there’s quite an interesting thing when you have these two moments of change: you’re going through the menopause and they’re going through puberty,” she stated on the time. “You’re both basically going insane at the same time, so that’s an interesting challenge.”
“There was a shame about it, because I think it’s wrapped up with it is this false idea that you’re obsolete once you stop producing eggs,” she continued. “It’s really unfair because people can become very seriously deranged because of the hormones. But also it’s a thing of wonder, the gift of being able to make a child — and this is the payback.”
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