From showbizspy.com (December 13, 2007)

by Owen Williams

British star Helena Bonham-Carter has given her son a doll, so he can get used to the idea of having a baby brother or sister.

According to the actress Billy Ray has already thrown himself into the role.

“He just turned four, is in preschool, and we’ve gotten him a baby doll so he can get used to the idea of having a sibling,” she says.

“He’s already teaching the ‘baby’ that he shouldn’t swallow marbles.”

Billy Ray is Bonham-Carter’s first child, whom she had with partner Tim Burton. The actress is pregnant with their second child.

Bonham-Carter, who is due to give birth this month, also told US magazine, Parade: “I’m a huge globe.”

Burton has cast his partner in yet another one of his movies - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. But although the couple has collaborated on films before - such as Big Fish and Corpse Bride - the actress says she was not destined to win the role of Mrs Lovett.

She even had to audition for the part opposite screen hunk Johnny Depp. She says: “Stephen Sondheim reserved the casting rights to Mrs Lovett, a role I really wanted. “Tim was the most professional, professional. He wouldn’t even tell me how auditions were going.”

Nevertheless, Bonham-Carter says she was thrilled when told she won the role, despite admittedly not being the best singer that was seen. She says that when she was told she would play Mrs Lovett it was: “Probably the best day of my life.”

She was then sent off to see “a brilliant singing teacher.”

Her co-star Johnny Depp, 44, also sings in the film. But Bonham-Carter says: “Johnny once had a band. So he has an interesting take on the part.”

She says that Depp - her son’s godfather - has “got such physical grace.”

She adds: “The effect is a bit modern, a bit rock.”
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Вкратце: Хелена Бонем Картер подарила своему сыну куклу, чтобы он привыкал к тому, что скоро у него родиться брат или сестра.
ХБК: «Он уже учит куколку тому, что нельзя глотать камни».
Билли Рэй – первый ребенок Тима и Хелены, а в данный момент актриса беременна вторым малышом. Хелена, которая должна родить уже со дня на день, говорит про себя, что она «огромный глобус».
Хелена (как нам всем известно) снялась в новом фильме своего гражданского мужа, Тима Бартона, Свини Тодд. Ей пришлось, как и всем актрисам, претендующим на роль, проходить кастинг. Когда она узнала, что получила роль, то сказала, что это «лучший день в ее жизни».