They say two’s company and three’s a crowd, but Helena Bonham Carter must be used to it. Her new movie Dark Shadows sees her once again team up with its director – her real-life partner Tim Burton – and his regular male lead, Johnny Depp.
It is Depp’s eighth outing with Burton (and her seventh), but the British star doesn’t mind sharing her man.
“Johnny’s obviously a really old friend of Tim’s,” she says. “And he doesn’t feel like an actor to hang out with.”
Bonham Carter, who turns 46 this month, has been with Burton, 53, since appearing in his 2001 remake Planet Of The Apes.
There are plenty of reasons not to tie the knot in Hollywood - just ask Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who spent seven years together before finally announcing their engagement in April.
But for longtime partners Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton, the logic is simple: They're too lazy to say "I do."
"We're not (married), actually. Not through any kind of. Through laziness, really," she told Daniel Radcliffe in the latest issue of Interview magazine.
"Our houses are married. It is very good to have. You definitely need your space."
The quirky couple, who have been together for 11 years, have notoriously never wed, though they have two children together - Billy, 8, and Nell, 4 - and have collaborated on numerous film projects.
But Burton and Depp go all the way back to 1990’s Edward Scissorhands.
“Johnny’s probably a bit more obedient to Tim than I am!” laughs the actress, who lives with Burton and their two children, Billy, eight – whose godfather is Depp – and Nell, four, in London’s Belsize Park.
More than 40 years before True Blood and Twilight made angst-ridden vampires the hot new thing, there was a wicked little afternoon soap called Dark Shadows. At its center was Barnabas Collins, a brooding bloodsucker played with equal parts torment and relish by Jonathan Frid, and if you were an offbeat kid in the late 1960s there's a good chance you raced home from school to watch it. Tim Burton, the acclaimed director, was one of those eager young fans. And now he's put his own spin on things. His movie version of Dark Shadows opens May 11 with a starry cast headed by Johnny Depp - yet another boyhood buff of the soap - as the reluctant, guilt-ridden and immortally sexy Barnabas.
"Dark Shadows is a part of my DNA," says Burton. "I discovered it when I was a pre-teen feeling very awkward and strange about my place in life. I was crazy about its mash-up of vampires, witches and werewolves all swirling in this weird melodrama - there was nothing like it on TV! It formed who I am and the kind of films I would go on to make."
The Alice in Wonderland star made a vow at the start of 2012 to enrol in a class, and now she reveals she has finally hit the dance studio.
She tells Interview magazine, "The great thing about our job is that it makes us do stuff we're naturally too lazy to do. I'm proud of myself that I'm finally doing tap lessons. That was a New Year's resolution. I thought, 'Just do it! When are you going to make the time?'"
But the actress admits she prefers to spend time with her two kids when she has a rare day off, adding, ""(In my free time I) learn to tap dance. Do something with children. Bond. Remind them, 'Hello, I am your mother.' The free time is spent with the children, really.
"I think if you've got a child, you've got to show them how to love life and what the good things to do are... I love that. And I love what I get back from them, which is imagination and play."
Helena Bonham Carter admitted that she is ‘too lazy’ to tie the knot to her long-term partner Tim Burton, as she went topless, dressed as a white swan, for a quirky new shoot for a magazine.
The 45-year-old actress said that despite having two children, Billy, eight, and four-year-old Nell, with Burton - her partner of 11 years, the pair are unlikely to get hitched.
“We’re not [married], actually. Not through any kind of ... Through laziness, really,” the Daily Mail quoted her as telling the magazine.
However, Carter was quick to insist that just because the pair, who famously live in adjoining houses, aren’t legally married, it doesn’t mean their relationship isn’t serious.
“Our houses are married. It is very good to have. You definitely need your space,” she said.
Carter and Burton have worked on seven movies together and the actress thinks it is important that she gets to see him work otherwise she would worry about the filmmaker’s stress levels and unhappiness when he came home in the evenings.
“He is very stressed. Directors are. The stress level - it’s a battle. I mean everything that can go wrong goes wrong,” she said.
“But then again, what’s great about working with Tim - when you’re involved with him - is that I get to see that on set, he’s having fun.
But if I didn’t get to go on set, I’d think he was suicidal for six months. I love seeing him work. It’s a really good thing. It’s very healthy to do, every so often,” she said.
The Dark Shadows star insists she would be ‘insane’ if she turned down any roles she is offered by Burton because she thinks he is a ‘genius’, though there are also practical reasons for their frequent collaborations.
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