‘THE other day I was getting changed at the gym” says Helena Bonham Carter, adjusting her vast bird’s nest hairdo while talking at 90 miles an hour, “and this woman, a stranger, looked me up and down and said, ‘Do you have a broomstick at home?’ I thought, ‘Honestly, I’m just trying to do some exercise here.’ ”
Another time she was doing yoga, and someone tweeted, “Helena’s wearing bloomers to the yoga!”
“I was going to tweet back saying they’re not bloomers, but then I realised that actually they were,” she says with a giggle.
This is how conversations tend to run with the actress – intelligent points segueing into self-effacing personal anecdotes, before exploding in fruity, tobacco-smoked, whisky-marinated laughs.
So what did she tell the gym woman who…
