Helena Bonham Carter

HBC is ALSO someone whose facial expressions amuse me. She did it during the Globes, too. She just seems not to have any kind of poker face when she's not on duty on a movie set.

Helena Bonham Carter

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.

HBC

Oops. I'm not sure Helena appreciated that. Sorry, Helena.

HBC

See? You want to, but you can't stay mad at me. We've been through too much together.

Helena Bonham Carter

Okay now I think maybe you're making fun of me somehow. But that's okay. I still cherish you for never putting on your Polite But Distant face. There's always something going on behind your eyes, if not overtly in your expression. (Like how at the Globes you seemed to hate Melissa Leo's acceptance speech, and/or believed she was speaking Swahili.) And for that I appreciate you the most.

SAG Awards Well Played (Comparatively) Carpet: Helena Bonham Carter

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."