Q 13

PLAYBOY: Some movie fans have put your orgasm up against Meg Ryan's in When Harry Met Sally. How do you rank them?

Helena Bonham Carter: Oh, that's really flattering! Well, thank you. I have to write that down. I wish I had a certificate that said that for my wall.

Q 14

PLAYBOY: You've played several drug addicts. Did you ever go through a drug phase?

Helena Bonham Carter: People seem to see me as that type, but I never did drugs. One director suggested I take them just to see what it was like. Just how clever was he? I'm not going to tell you who it was. I said no, thank you. I think I can use my imagination. The closest I ever came to drugs was postbaby, when they give you painkillers. Then I thought, Oh, I get it! It was so nice.

Q 15

PLAYBOY: Your version of Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is pretty busty in the corset. Is that all you? You are pregnant as we speak, and that can confuse the issue.

Helena Bonham Carter: I don't really have those. I felt I had to make an impression somehow. I'm on the screen for so little time, I needed to establish Bellatrix. I thought, Okay, I've got a little time. I have to be bold with my choices here. I'll go with teeth and breasts, I thought, then I'll stand out. And I did! Now a year later I have to do the next one. If my breasts stay as they are--because they suddenly popped out for this pregnancy--then I won't need to use any chicken fillets. [laughs] Anyone who watches Sweeney Todd and pays attention to my breast size will see there's no continuity: The first half of filming I wasn't pregnant and the second half I was, and because we didn't shoot it in order I start off with huge breasts, and then I walk upstairs and suddenly I've got tangerines again. It's melons to tangerines.

Q 16

PLAYBOY: We saw footage of an old Japanese beer commercial. Is that really you?

Helena Bonham Carter: [Laughs] It's hilarious. I don't remember much. I think I end up in a haystack with Julian Sands. I'm wearing strange clothes. I was so young. I think that was in my monobrow phase when I still had just one eyebrow. For the first 10 years of this career I was really confused. I had no idea what the hell I was doing. It took a long time to grow up.

Q 17

PLAYBOY: Did you have a lot of boyfriends during this awkward phase?

Helena Bonham Carter: No. I didn't have many boyfriends. I was a very late developer. I was practically a nun. I lived with my parents until I was 30. I did see some men in my 20s. A few. [laughs] They found it tough that they had to see me at the parents' consistently.

Q 18

PLAYBOY: Have you ever appeared in a movie Burton hated?

Helena Bonham Carter: Not any he's actually seen. When he was really in love with me he watched about three Merchant Ivory films back-to-back. It was an overdose for him because he'd never watched one in his life.

Q 19

PLAYBOY: People have this conception of you and he as a dark couple. Do you have a goofy side?

Helena Bonham Carter: We're not that dark. All Tim's films have a great big tender heart. I'm definitely not dark. I'm fluffy, if anything. What I love about Tim is that he retains a certain innocence and a childlike quality. He sort of forgot to grow up. I think I've definitely forgotten to grow up, which is great. Great for Billy, probably. At some point he'll probably want parents. [laughs] He'll have to look elsewhere.

Q 20

PLAYBOY: If you and Burton ever split up, who keeps Johnny Depp?

Helena Bonham Carter: Oh, Tim can have him! [laughs] They get the same poo jokes. Nothing will separate them.