Email to screen actors

 Email to Helena Bonham Carter:

nicki@conwayvg.co.uk

Hi there, I hope this email reaches you in good spirits,

My name is Rudy Hendin and I was wondering if I could get in touch with your client Helena Bonham Carter to ask her some questions about her decorated career in acting. I am a 17 year old college student at Suffolk one who has taken the RSL level 3 acting diploma and I believe her input could help me exponentially improve my skills in performance as well as my overall understanding of the film industry itself.

While I am a young actor I have always had a passion for the craft of acting and have been performing since I was a child thanks to being a past member of the Pauline Quirke academy. This has given me the opportunity to perform in some of the oldest theatres in the west end and I have performed in a plethora of well known musicals (unfortunately not including Sweeney Todd). I now wish to explore the world of screen acting which you are well acquainted with.

My first question is about your acting process. We have been taught many ways in which actors best get into character but what is it that personally drives you to immerse yourself into a role? How does this method affect your performances to let you immediately be recognised for your style?

Now I have already done some research into your career and found that you did not go into an acting course for higher education. How exactly did you first enter into the world of acting and did it prove difficult without any professional training? while it can be said the acting industry is constantly evolving do you believe it is still necessary to train in acting to go on to do it professionally?

Next I wanted to ask how you overcome challenge in the creative process. Perhaps a certain scene you were particularly struggling with? A characters whose thought were too complex to fully understand? how is that you fought through this 'artist' block to produce something you were proud of.

Now finally a more novel question is there a particular moment in your career which has bougt you to tears of laughter. I find one of the best parts in acting is those little moments of bliss where someone does something wrong in a funny way or a simple joke that you cant stop laughing about. I believe these moments are what turn an ensemble into a tightly knitted group of talent and at the end of the day that is really why we act- if it wasn't fun why bother?

Sincerely,

Rudy