Carter had come into acting almost by accident and, despite her early success, suffered cruelly from the sense that she wasn’t really good enough for it. Just as she accommodated his oddness, he seemed to soothe her insecurities. Their romance was slow to take off for other reasons, notably Burton’s engagement to Lisa Marie Presley, but love won through and they found themselves living in bohemian bliss in London. Then, when you get older, you realise that it is strange.” When you are a kid, you think everything is strange. He later told a biographer that life then was “a visually wonderful, hellish place. She may have played some odd parts and look as though she is permanently in costume, but she owes much to a reassuringly solid, upper-middle-class background, and was possessed of a good enough mind to see that behind Burton’s strangeness was the raw material for a worthwhile relationship.īurton had grown up in Burbank, California, where his favourite childhood game was staging axe murders on the family lawn. What some people find normal, I find abnormal, and what they find abnormal, I’m thinking, ummm, yeah, I’ve experienced that.”Ī genteel life in leafy Hampstead with Carter was about as normal as Burton was likely to get. And what conversations they must be! Talking, earlier this month, about his much-praised new film, Big Eyes - the true-life story of American art fraudster Walter Keane - he said: “Fantasy and reality are quite blurred for me. It is true that Burton, 56, gives the impression of having his most interesting conversations with himself. “I used to say that he was a home for abandoned sentences.” Which, itself, is a problem, as she talks non-stop and he says almost nothing. Such as when Carter is up and about and hungry for a chat. Burton is an insomniac who likes to do his thinking at night and sleep at less propitious times. There was the added complication of their nocturnal preferences. It’s like going from the land of the living to the land of the dead.” He’s got slime balls and dead Oompa-Loompas lying around, and skeletons and weird alien lights. “My house looks like something out of Beatrix Potter,” she said, “but if you go over to his house, you’re in a totally different place.
To Carter, it all made perfect sense, and the more details she supplied of their domestic arrangements, the harder it was to argue.
Famously, they inhabited separate-but-conjoined houses in north London, scuttling through a chandeliered tunnel when they needed to see each other and keeping a prudent distance when they didn’t. For 13 years, they worked together, enlivened the social landscape together, collected lots of awards together and seemed to do everything one might expect of a devoted, modern couple - except live together. Their eccentricities were not only charming, but also provided a plausible explanation of what kept them together. If so, the couple’s admirers will be outraged: Since when did this pair do anything routine?
#LISA MARIE AND TIM BURTON MOVIE#
It didn't start during Planet of the Apes." The rep says Burton and Bonham Carter wouldn't have had much chance to fool around on the Apes set, since she was costumed in latex "from head to toe.LONDON - When movie director Tim Burton and British actress Helena Bonham Carter separated last week, after 13 years together, it was attributed to him suffering a “mid-life crisis” - which tends to be the routine code for “having found a younger woman”. Helena used to have her over for lunch all the time." Me-ow!īurton, 43, reportedly told Lisa that "she didn't need to go to the London premiere and, since she had some photo shoots, she said OK." Then Burton reportedly lowered the boom, calling Lisa Marie to say, "It's over."īonham Carter previously set tongues wagging when she began dating Kenneth Branagh (the pair broke up in 1999), and was blamed by some for the breakup of his marriage to Emma Thompson.Ī rep for Bonham Carter confirms that she is dating Burton, telling the Daily News, "She has been seeing him for the last two and a half weeks. "Lisa and Helena were both in Planet of the Apes, which they worked on for over a year. Meanwhile, other friends of Lisa Marie's tell the New York Post that she considered Bonham Carter a friend. They went to the Planet premiere together."
The quirky director has reportedly left his longtime girlfriend Lisa Marie, who's been featured in nearly all his films, for the Oscar-nominated British actress.Ī friend of Lisa Marie's is quoted in the New York Daily News as having some not-so-nice words about Burton's behavior. 26, 2001 - No, there wasn't an ape-human love scene in Planet of the Apes, but director Tim Burton is reportedly monkeying around (sorry, we couldn't resist!) with his fetching Apes star Helena Bonham Carter.
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