Helena Bonham Carteris shining bright on the26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awardsred carpet!
The actress, 53, arrived with herThe Crowncostars Josh O’Connor and Erin Doherty, wearing a navy tiered sequin Self-Portrait midi dress teamed with silver sunglasses and drop earrings. She added a pop of berry-colored lipstick and styled her hair in a loose updo accessorized with a jeweled headband.
Bonham Carter is nominated for twoSAG Awardstonight for her role as Princess Margaret inThe Crown.
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“Being part of this production has been such a happy job for me,” she told PEOPLE on the red carpet, before giving her costars a sweet shoutout. “These people are amazingly talented.”
And when asked about the real life royals — andPrince Harryand wifeMeghan Markle‘s announcement thatthey would be stepping down from their senior royal duties— the actress said it will be “very interesting to see what they do” next.
“I think the world is their oyster,” she added. “But now they’re masters of their own destiny. Good luck to them.”
In December 2019, the actress graced the cover ofHarper’s Bazaar,andopened upaboutsplittingfrom director and partner of 13 years, Tim Burton, 61, and discussed their two children, daughter Nell, 11, and son Billy, 16.
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“You break up, you grieve, you get bored of grieving, and then you finally move on,” she said of the 2014 split. “I’m very happy with someone else. It’s been a bit of unexpected magic in my life.”
Bonham Carter is now dating writer Rye Dag Holmboe. She said the relationship gives her acommonality between herself and the charactershe plays onThe Crown, Princess Margaret (Queen Elizabeth’s sister), who becomes romantically involved with a gardener-turned-unsuccessful pop star 17 years her junior, Roddy Llewellyn.
In an interview withThe Times, the SAG Award nominee said that her off-screen romance didn’t give her any insight into playing Margaret on the Netflix series.
“It’s strange, though,” Bonham Carter said. “It was odd timing that I seem to have a similar age gap as her, but I think it would have happened whether I wasplaying heror not.”
But the 21-year age gap doesn’t bother the 53-year-old actress.
“Everybody ages at a different rate,” she explains. “My boyfriend is unbelievably mature. He’s an old soul in a young body, what more could I want? People are slightly frightened of older women, but he isn’t. Women can be very powerful when they’re older. Why can’t we be sexually and romantically attractive just when our eggs are expired? Actually it’s much more fun because we’re so freed of the terror, there is no consequence, it’s all just for fun.”
The 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are airing live Sunday starting at 8 p.m. ET on TNT and TBS.
source: people.com
