Helena Bonham Carter: I fought for my fairy wings

Helena Bonham Carter has revealed she had to campaign to be given wings to play the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella.

The film, directed by Kenneth Branagh, is a live action remake of the Disney cartoon, and the Fairy Godmother in the animated version is a little old lady in a cape with a wand but no wings.

Helena revealed when she boarded the project, her costume didn’t have any wings, so she kicked up a fuss.

She said: “I’ve got lots of opinions, but luckily I’ve got a very good relationship with Ken, so Ken said, You can have a lot of say.

“There were no wings, and I thought it was incredibly obvious that she should have wings, but there were no wings when I first came in. She looked like Elizabeth I, a virginal Elizabeth I.

“And I said ‘wings!’ There was a bit of a tussle. It went to the head, it went to Ken, ‘She wants wings, she wants wings,’ and eventually I got my way.

“I said there is no six-year-old girl who is going to believe that I’m a fairy if I don’t have wings.”

Cinderella is released in cinemas on Friday March 27.

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