I KNOW ITS A TROPE TO HAVE A DREAM ABOUT SOMEONE AND THEN FALL IN LOVE WITH THEM BUT LIKE I ACTUALLY JUST HAD A DREAM ABOUT THIS GIRL I KID YOU NOT I WOKE UP IN TEARS BECAUSE I COULD F E E L HOW CLOSE THEY WERE TO ME LIKE THE WARMTH OF HER BODY AND THEIR HEAD ON MY SHOULDER AND HER ARMS WRAPPED AROUND ME IT WAS SO NICE AND COMFORTING BUT THEN I WOKE UP COLD AND ALONE IN MY BED WITH TEARS IN MY EYES WHY DOES THE UNIVERSE DO THIS TO ME
Your feelings for me are less about me, and more about you and Freddie. Things with him were getting serious and that scared you, so you sabotaged the relationship by throwing yourself at me.
Helena Bonham Carter playing the role of George WIlmers from the BBC’s TV Mini-Series Love, Nina|2016.
‘Helena Bonham Carter was cast in a TV series about my life - and all I could do was blag a Harry Potter ticket from her,‘
“I hear her say, ‘I’m having tea with Nina, the Nina.’ Then she covers the mouthpiece and says, ‘My mother says to tell you she loved the book.’ HBC wants to talk about MK and asks lots of questions, even though the series isn’t going in for straight impressions.
‘What sort of animal would Mary-Kay be?’ she asks. I say she probably wouldn’t be an animal. HBC says she realises that, but if she was. So I say, ‘Cat, probably.’ HBC doesn’t look convinced. I think again.‘Goldfinch,’ I say, and we laugh at my overthinking it and HBC says a cat is fine.
HBC wants to know about Mary-Kay’s romantic life. ‘Boyfriends and whatnot,’ she says, sounding exactly like Mary-Kay.”
Snippets of an article by Nina Stibbe about her meeting with HBC to discuss the role she was to play, Mary-Kay Wilmers | Telegraph 20/05/16.
