Helena Bonham Carter Dishes On Modeling For Marc Jacobs

Elle snagged an interview with the always-entertaining Helena Bonham Carter, who recently appeared in a quirky set of Marc Jacobs' ads shot by Juergen Teller.

But apparently getting to star in a Marc Jacobs campaign comes with directions. Carter told Elle:

"In fact there were strict instructions, 'Please make sure she wears shoes that were different colors.' It came out like that. I find that it's all play. That was what was so fun. Suddenly I found I was pretending to be a dog on the floor, snarling at Juergen, then I was Judy Garland in her latter days. We went through all different kinds of scenarios, but it was fun, it was really good fun."

Sounds like fun! It probably helped that Teller, who has photographed nearly every Marc Jacobs advertisement, is a free-spirit like his subject. Said Carter:

"Usually when you do press or advertisement and you're hired as a model, it's usually quite anal an affair, everybody has their say. You're not really being you, you're selling something. But [the Marc Jacobs campaign] was so liberating."

The result was crazy photos like the one below, leaked online by Teller himself. Who needs Marc when you've got Juergen?

Read the rest at Elle.com.

Comments

[Tracey Hastings-Ward]

01:21 PM on 08/27/2011

I love Helena and Marc what a win win. You know she's brilliant when she has such a broad range from Merchant Ivory to Tim Burton ....love her! gush gush....

[Lehmann Maupin]

01:41 PM on 07/27/2011

More on photographer Juergen Teller at http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/juergen-teller/

Juergen Teller information like past/current/future exhibitions, publications, interviews, biography, and more.

[Tracey Hastings-Ward]

01:24 PM on 08/27/2011

Beautiful disturbing luxe honest

[Mythos]

01:48 PM on 07/06/2011

I think the photo is fantastic, fresh and perfectly suited for Carter. If only all fashion photographers were free enough to allow the personalities of the models they photograph come to light. And a bit of exaggeration makes it all the more interesting.

[TheLibraryOfCodex]

01:08 PM on 07/05/2011

Always loved her.

Beautiful, in a manic sort of way

[Sharon Griffin]

04:32 PM on 07/03/2011

"Liberating?" "usually quite anal an affair".......Ah no, you don't say! We all thought it was usually quite cerebral......

[LMPE]

01:57 PM on 07/02/2011

I've always liked Helena Bonham Carter

[AgathaX]

07:48 AM on 07/06/2011

I always wanted to like Helena Bonham Carter.

[theredqueen]

12:04 PM on 07/02/2011

She will be perfect for Miss. Haversham. I hope she plays the role.

[eva belle]

04:33 AM on 07/02/2011

Ahahahhaa...what a very HBC thing to say.

[henrypapillon]

01:11 AM on 07/02/2011

Said the Red Queen.

[LMPE]

01:56 PM on 07/02/2011

aka the Queen Mother in "The King's Speech"

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

11:48 AM on 07/04/2011

"Somebody clothe this enormous girl." :))

[Kittenesque]

05:33 PM on 07/01/2011

ha! love her

[jimall3]

04:34 PM on 07/01/2011

Both she and Marc Jacobs designs look hideous. I mean really awful. But she is right about models and anal.