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Helena Bonham Carter

  • Has smoked "in real life" (IRL) = Yes
  • Quit = Has quit cigars
  • Profession = actress
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  • Cigar/Cigarette Brand
              •  Silk Cut Extra Mild
  • Miscellaneous information
              •  "I absolutely love it, except for the anti-smoking regulations", Tatler, Oct. '98
              •  video, Fight Club (1999), youtube, c. '99
              •  "Carter has ditched her posh period wardrobe to play a chain-smoking mum with laddered tights in short film `Football'", World Entertainment News Networ, June 29, '00
              •  "Carter was given a cigarette holder to smoke through on the set of 'Planet of the Apes' so she wouldn't set her chimp makeup on fire", World Entertainment News Network, Apr. 23, '01
              •  "accompanied by the kind of throaty chuckle that suggests lots of late nights and ciggies", Sun Herald (Australia), Sep. 16, '02
              •  "Other British stars slammed for choosing to smoke in films include ... Helena Bonham-Carter", "Too many movies glorify young people smoking", Belfast Telegraph (Northern Ireland), May 31, '03
  • Proof she has smoked (or quit) "in real life"
              •  "Her hand clutches a cigarette", Chicago Tribune, May 14, '89
              •  "'I still live with my mom and dad. This is the pathetic thing', she said between puffs on a cigarette", Los Angeles Times, Jan. 24, '91
              •  "As Helena Bonham Carter has cornered the market in E M Forster gels (two down, one shortly to come) I was subconsciously on the look-out for a shy, demure, exquisitely dressed ingenue. Instead, there was a studiedly scruffy, cigarette-smoking waif in blue denim jacket, heavy brown Doc Marten shoes, drinking Diet Coke and fingering a condom", Independent (UK), Jul. 31, '91
              •  "she lights a Marlboro and curls up in a hotel chair", USA Today, Aug. 4, '92
              •  "I should stop smoking, which would definitely improve my teeth, which are getting stained from it. I smoke about 15 a day, particularly in company, and know I should stop. But I'm not sure I've actually resolved to do so", The Times (UK), Dec. 30, '92
              •  "lighting a cigarette and sipping a soda", Montreal Gazette, Nov. 14, '93
              •  "'Do you mind if I smoke a cigarette?' she asks her interviewer ... inhaling a cigarette deeply", Los Angeles Times, Nov. 6, '94
              •  X-Press Magazine (Ottawa), Jan. 25, '96
              •  "She slips on a fuzzy green sweater, lights a cigarette", Maclean's, Jan. 29, '96
              •  "Dressed in black jeans and trainers, chain-drinking cups of coffee, and smoking Marlboros", Sunday Telegraph (UK), Oct. 13, '96
              •  "she announces, drawing on a Marlboro light", Empire Magazine (UK), Mar. '97
              •  "She smokes (Marlboro Lights until last week. Silk Cut Extra Mild now)", Premiere Magazine (UK), May '97
              •  "Branagh and Bonham Carter were hanging out at an upper East Side cafe, drinking red wine and smoking cigarettes", New York Daily News, Sep. 27, '97
              •  "the chain-smoking actress", NewCity, Oct. 13, '97
              •  "the chain-smoking actress", website, Oct. 13, '97
              •  "the so-called English rose of acting, sits in a long shapeless pinafore dress with her hair pulled up, smoking a cigarette and biting her nails. She can't stop her bad habits, she says, which she lists as 'fags and buying clothes I never wear'", "while reaching for another cigarette", Scotland on Sunday, Nov. 2, '97
              •  When Dave asked her if she smoked, she replied that she was very addicted, and supposed she would probably try to quit some day, Letterman, Nov. 4, '97
              •  "I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine", Toronto Sun, Nov. 9, '97
              •  "sipping a Diet Coke and dragging on a cigarette", Nov. 11, '97
              •  "She smokes in between mouthfuls of water", "Helena sneaks another cigarette", The Independent (London), Nov. 17, '97
              •  "with a pronounced puff on her cigarette", USA Today, Nov. 21, '97, p. D4
              •  netizen summary: "she didn't smoke as a teenager. At the age of 19, while working on a film, she was offered a cigarette, smoked it, and got sick as a result. After the film was finished, she went out and bought a pack of Silk Cut (a popular British brand) and decided to take up smoking, on the rather mysterious ground that quitting would be a good exercise in self-discipline. She's never managed to quit, and she's still a habitual smoker today", Sunday Times (UK), Dec. 7, '97
              •  cigar - Indiana Newspaper?, where?, c. Jan. '98
              •  "having a smoke and a coffee", Entertainment Weekly, Feb. 13, '98, p. 29
              •  "She fiddles in her handbag for a pack of cigarettes and a lighter", WWD magazine (UK), Feb. 19, '98
              •  "Helena Bonham Carter started smoking in order to quit, to cultivate self-discipline. Now she finds she can't", Bizarre, Mar./Apr. '98
              •  "'I think that comes anyway when you reach your '30s,' says 32-year-old Bonham carter, lighting a cigarette", Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Dec. 4, '98
              •  "'I smoke' ... Bonham Carter stares off and lights a convalescent Merit. ... she takes the sort of guiltless, ocean-deep drag that only europeans still permit themselves", Allure, Dec. '98
              •  "In real life the spiky-haired heavy smoker is refreshingly laid-back.", People Magazine, Jan. 11, '99
              •  "What is your greatest indulgence? - Smoking. I tried to give up recently but I only lasted six days because I went on holiday with a girlfriend", You magazine, Mail on Sunday (UK), Sep. 19, '99
              •  "I like to smoke and indulge my terrible habit", Mr. Showbiz, Oct. 5, '99
              •  "Helen Fielding, the book's (Bridget Jones Diary) author, is convinced that Bonham Carter is Bridget Jones--a disorganized, insecure, weight-obsessed woman who is always trying to quit smoking (Bonham Carter once managed for six days)", Los Angeles Magazine, Nov. '99
              •  "I'm a completely disorganized, chain-smoking anorexic", Calgary Sun, Dec. 5, '99
              •  "She chain smoked", FilmUnlimited, c. '99
              •  "I had a great time making that film [Fight Club] because I was paid to sit around and smoke.", The Express, Feb. 18, '00
              •  "working with Brad [on Fight Club (1999)] was six months of pure joy. I was paid to smoke, which isn't bad, and I spent a lot of time just lounging around the hotel pool", News of the World (UK), Feb. 20, '00
              •  "she's one of those voracious smokers who takes enthusiastic drags off a filter tip as if sucking snake venom out of a wound", Sunday Times (UK), Mar. 5, '00
              •  "I drink Diet Coke, I smoke, I swear", World Entertainment News Network, Jul. 31, '00
              •  "Demure, I'm not demure. I drink Diet Coke, I smoke, I swear and I arm-wrestle", The Express (UK), Aug. 1, '00
              •  "I absolutely love Hollywood, except for the anti-smoking restrictions", World Entertainment News Network, Oct. 30, '00
              •  on the set of Planet of the Apes: "'I shouldn't be doing this of course,' she says, blowing cigarette smoke through her cute little chimp nostrils (which is just as bizarre a sight as it sounds). 'I'm extremely flammable and Rick gets terribly upset.' From two feet away, she is completely unrecognizable beneath her mask. 'My mum thinks I look like my aunt,' she says, fingering her snout.", Empire Online, Jan. '01
              •  "puffing away in her trailer", Entertainment Weekly, Apr. 27, '01, p. 36
              •  "the devilish Tim Burton couldn't have come up with a more amusingly incongruous anthropomorphic image for his upcoming remake of 'Planet of the Apes' than the sight of British actress Helena Bonham Carter, in full primate face, a cigarette dangling from her lips as she picks her nose. It is mid-afternoon and Bonham Carter is on a break, sitting on a stoop outside a sound stage in downtown Los Angeles indulging her nicotine habit.", website, May 8, '01
              •  "a cigarette dangling from her lips as she picks her nose", Los Angeles Times, Jun. 5, '01
              •  "[no sight] is stranger than that of a chimp smoking. 'The first time, I felt like one of those experiments, smoking beagles,' says Tim Roth, who, along with Helena Bonham Carter, regularly steps out for a cigarette", Glasgow Herald (UK), Jun. 30, '01
              •  "one evening last week I attended a glamorous drinks party in a Notting Hill garden. Everyone, including Laura Bailey, Earl Spencer and Helena Bonham Carter, was sucking happily away, some interspersing their sucks with hits on cigarettes", Evening Standard (UK), Jul. 4, '01
              •  "Her eating habits aren't the healthiest - she adores fizzy drinks, pastri es, milkshakes - and she's also a chain-smoker.", "But her smoking can cause real problems - it became a real health hazard during filming [of Planet Of The Apes], because her make-up was combustible. Ever desp erate for a ciggie, she took to using a long flapper-style cigarette holder. 'I was highly flammable,' she laughs, 'but I looked fab'", Woman (UK), Jul. 16, '01
              •  "Carter, in full monkey face, a cigarette dangling from her lips as she picks at her nose. She's sitting on a stoop outside a downtown Los Angeles soundstage indulging her nicotine habit and delicately trying to scratch her real nose through the left nostril of her simian prosthesis", Newsday, Jul. 22, '01
              •  "Carter and Roth are not monkeying around when they grab their lighters, take out a cigarette and light up during the down moments", Chicago Sun-Times, Jul. 22, '01
              •  "all eyes were on stunning Estella Warren at the Planet Of The Apes movie launch party in New York. She and British co-star Helena Bonham Carter shared a cigarette and a glass of wine at the shindig", Daily Star (UK), Jul. 25, '01
              •  "After being told by Rick Baker that she was a walking fire hazard, did chain-smoker Carter still smoke? 'Yeah, he gave me [and Tim Roth] a long cigarette holder but we eventually [got rid of that] because it was such a drag to get a drag.'", website, Jul. 26, '01
              •  "Q: Did you learn to recognize people on the set (of Planet of the Apes) in their ape makeup? BONHAM CARTER: I was always the one smoking a cigarette, even though we were walking fire hazards with all the glue and rubber on our faces. That's the definition of an addict: When they warn you that you smoking might set you ablaze and you still light up", Los Angeles Daily News, Jul. 27, '01
              •  "The actress insists she has had to work hard to shake off her image as the reserved English rose. She admitted: 'I find the perception of me very patronising. I drink booze, I smoke and I'm hooked on caffeine'", The Sun (UK), Jul. 28, '01
              •  "The crew even organised an extra-long 1920s-style cigarette holder to satisfy her smoking habit" the Advertiser, Jul. 28, '01
              •  "The hardest part, however, was keeping up her Silk Cut habit between takes while encased in fast-burning latex, glue and nylon. Helena, who smokes like a beagle, said: 'They got me a very long cigarette holder. I was always being warned I'd go up in flames.' Didn't she feel just the smallest bit ridiculous with a fag-holder like a javelin? 'I was already in a chimp outfit. Frankly I did not care how I looked'", News of the World, Jul. 29, '01
              •  "she brings out a cigarette and then starts rummaging again for a lighter", "She takes the cigarette out and moves her mouth from side to side, up and down, as if it were being jerked by strings", The Sunday Telegraph (The Sunday Telegraph Magazine supplement) (UK), Jul. 29, '01
              •  "one of her modern day handmaidens set down a glass of water on the table in front of the seat waiting for her, and the other one then put there an ashtray, cigarettes, and a lighter. ... In addition to the tea, she put up her knees on her chair (cutely doing a brief ape-like arm move when she first did so), and halfway through, after asking if we minded, lit up a cigarette. (At the end of the interview, I recommended she try Zyban in combination with the patch. She seemed to appreciate the advice 'I've GOT to give it up.')", website, Jul. 30, '01
              •  "How did you satisfy your cigarette habit in costume? I sense a fire hazard", "I was issued a very long cigarette holder. I was always being warned, You have to use your holder, because you will just go up in flames! We had so many glues and so much rubber on our bodies. Luckily, I didn't burn up", Maxim, Aug. '01
              •  "lighting a cigarette as we resume our chat... Oh, smoking is soo bad for you. Couldn't you have given up during filming? You could have set your whiskers on fire. 'I know, it was the perfect opportunity to give up my addiction. Because of all the make-up and fur, I was a fire hazard. But unfortunately I didn't stop - I used a cigarette holder instead. A lot of the reason was the monotony - the whole job was a celebration of monotony. There was a hell of a lot of waiting around, so I did puff away. But I didn't go crazy as I knew I could puff myself away'", Sunday Mirror (UK), Aug. 5, '01
              •  "Of the many surreal sights on the film set - including extras in ape suits playing cards - the strangest was that of chimpanzees having a cigarette break. Initially Bonham Carter was worried that her highly flammable make-up would interfere with her smoking, but the producers provided her with an elegant, Twenties-style cigarette holder. 'I'm still highly flammable,' she said at the time, 'but at least I look fabulous.'", Mail On Sunday (Night & Day magazine) (UK), Aug. 5, '01
              •  "Estella Warren said 'I think the funniest thing for me was when I was sitting there with Roth and Helena (Bonham Carter) and they were in their ape costumes smoking cigarettes!'", New Straits Times (Malaysia), Aug. 6, '01
              •  "After a few minutes, she lit a cigarette...", "I wasn't meant to smoke on the set because I'm highly flammable in the costume. They gave me this really long 1920s cigarette holder which was hysterical. It's very glamorous, but I couldn't get a hit at all!", Australian TV Week, Aug. 11, '01
              •  "Carter is so addicted to smoking - she risked being set on fire during filming to light up. The star was transformed into aristocratic ape Ari for blockbuster Planet of the Apes and wouldn't let the flammable monkey mask stop her nicotine addiction. The giggling 20-a-day actress ignored warnings from crew members and make up artists, saying, 'I'm still highly flammable, but I look fabulous'", World Entertainment News Network, Aug. 12, '01
              •  "Carter is fed up with being cast as a demure lady in period dramas. Helena said, 'Directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite, which is quite patronising. But I'm quite beefy and strong. I drink booze, I smoke. I've also been known to swear at times... and belch'", The People (UK), Aug. 19, '01
              •  "She also laughs regularly between puffs on her umpteenth cigarette of the day. 'Terrible habit, isn't it?' she asks, looking as if she doesn't think it's terrible at all. 'I could not give up, even as a chimp. With all this make-up and inflammable prosthetics, they had to give me a cigarette holder about a foot long'", Scotland on Sunday (UK), Aug. 19, '01
              •  "smoking a cigarette, sipping from a cup of Starbuck's coffee", "She takes a puff on her cigarette. 'I really shouldn't be doing this,' she says, 'I'm terribly flammable. They did issue me with a really long, 1920s cigarette holder. I looked terribly glamorous but I couldn't get a hit at all'", Empire (UK), Sep. '01
              •  "lighting the first of many cigarettes", Red (UK), Sep. '01
              •  "dangling a cigarette in one hand and a cup of tea in the other", where?, '01
              •  "she's even better in person, all belches and puffs of cigarette smoke", Esquire, Oct. '01, p. 127
              •  "Her spiky-topped, junkie chic reappeared this year in 'Novocaine', suggesting she still enjoys the props of heavy eyeliner, trendy orthopaedic-style footwear and intense smoking, a habit she maintains off-screen. She does have a kippered nicotine glow to her looks", The Times (UK), Dec. 6, '01
              •  "She sips both coffee and cola, smokes a cigarette and frequently touches her teeth", Orlando Sentinel, Dec. 18, '01
              •  "the chain-smoking actress", Playboy, '01
              •  "lots of late nights and ciggies", Sun-Herald (Australia), Sep. 16, '02
              •  "The first time I met Helena Bonham Carter, she was puffing on a roll-up and wearing a baggy, ankle-length raincoat", This Is London Magazine (UK), May 2, '03
              •  "I lived at home for way too long. I think I rebelled a bit later, at 30. I started smoking and pierced my ears", The Times (UK), Jan. 15, '04
              •  "I smoke cigarettes", Zoo magazine (Germany), Jul. 11, '05
              •  "simply attired in a short black dress, dangling a cigarette in one hand and a cup of tea in the other", Cranky Critic, '05
              •  "She slips on a fuzzy green sweater, lights a cigarette", Macleans, Jan. 29, '06
              •  "I loved Fight Club because I got to smoke and be paid to smoke!", L'Express (France), Jun. 8, '06
              •  interview, "I like smoking cigarettes", where?
              •  "chain smokes marlboros", where?, when?
              •  "Smokes like a beagle: never without her Silk Cut", People News website, when?
              •  "A committed smoker who only recently moved out of her parents' house, she has wheezed her way through 20 starring roles and an Oscar nomination", Tatler LittleBlackBook website, when?
              •  "smokes like a beagle, never without her Silk Cut", Peoplenews.com, when?
              •  "dangling a cigarette in one hand", DreamWorks SKG Fansite, when?
              •  "When Helena came on set you could see she was either ready or she wasn't. When she was ready, no matter what you said, she wouldn't look at you - she was in Marla mode. She was like this little train - burrowing along with these puffs of cigarette smoke trailing behind her. ... Bonham Carter once gave up smoking for six days", LA Magazine, when?
  • Pictures of her smoking
              •  posed, holding, from Getting It Right (1989), The Express on Sunday Magazine (Sunday Express) (UK), Sep. 7, '97
              •  posed, lighting up, from "Wings of the Dove", The Sun (UK), Feb. 11, '98
              •  same, The Express (UK), Feb. 13, '98
              •  same, The Express on Sunday Magazine (Sunday Express) (UK), Mar. 8, '98
              •  same, Mensa Quest (UK), May '98
              •  same, Premiere Magazine, Jul. '98
              •  same, Empire, Aug. '98
              •  cover and inside, Madison magazine, Jul./Aug. '99
              •  exhaling, Madison Magazine, Jul. '99
              •  posed, holding, from "The Fight Club", The Times (UK), Nov. 11, '99, front cover
              •  posed, holding, from "The Fight Club", Heat, Nov. 11-17, '99
              •  holding, still from "Fight Club", The A List, The Mirror (UK), Nov. 12, '99
              •  posed, dangling, from "Fight Club", Empire, Dec. '99
              •  same, Daily Telegraph (Magazine Supplement) (UK), Oct. 30, '99
              •  same, The Independent on Sunday (Culture supplement) (UK), Nov. 14, '99
              •  posed, holding, from "The Fight Club", Daily Telegraph, Apr. 29, '00
              •  candid, holding, from '98, Daily Telegraph (Magazine) (UK), Jun. 2, '01
              •  posed, holding, from "Fight Club", The Sunday Telegraph (The Sunday Telegraph Magazine supplement) (UK), Jul. 29, '01
              •  exhaling, wearing an ape suit from the movie "Planet of the Apes", Premiere Magazine, Jul. '01, p. 3
              •  one exhaling without holder, two dragging through a long holder, all three in chimpanzee make-up for Planet of the Apes, Mail On Sunday (Night & Day magazine) (UK), Aug. 5, '01
              •  exhaling, wearing chimpanzee make-up for Planet of the Apes, The Mirror (UK), Aug. 13, '01
              •  candid, dangling using holder, Heat (UK), Nov. 3-8, '01
              •  posed, from Fight Club (1999), dangling, Loaded (UK), Nov. '01
              •  candid, holding, Nov. '02
              •  holding, candid, London, Rex Features (UK), May 27, '04
              •  holding, candid, London, Rex Features (UK), Jul. '05
  • Collections of pictures of her smoking
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              •  Celebrities Smoking Fetish, when?
  • Pictures from the net
             
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  • Madison Magazine, Jul./Aug. '99, 86k
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  • Wings of the Dove, The (1997), 8k
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  • Fight Club (1999), 5k
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  • Fight Club (1999), 6k
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  • holding, Novocaine (2001), 35k
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  • holding, out of frame, Live From Baghdad (2002) (TV), 23k
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  • Fight Club (1999), holding, 29k
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  • holding, 57k
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  • Fight Club (1999), dangling, 36k
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  • holding, Women Talking Dirty (1999), 42k
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  • dangling, Women Talking Dirty (1999), 43k
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  • dragging, Fight Club (1999), 21k
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  • holder, Sep. 10, '00, 26k
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  • exhaling, Fight Club (1999), 30k
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  • holding, 19k
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  • holding, Sixty Six (2006), 44k
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  • candid, holding, 24k
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  • posed, holding
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  • holding, Conversations with Other Women (2005), 26k
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  • about to drag, Conversations with Other Women (2005), 31k
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  • holding, Conversations with Other Women (2005), 34k
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  • dangling, about to light, Conversations with Other Women (2005), 31k
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  • dangling exhale, Conversations with Other Women (2005), 27k
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  • dangling, Fight Club (1999)
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