Who Magazine (1997)

Helena Bonham Carter’s feet were on the ground but her head was in the clouds when she arrived on the Concorde and rushed to the Leicester Square premiere of her film Keep the Aspidistra Flying.

Frazzled, she froze onstage through her introductory speech. “Am I suppose to say something?” she stammered. “I don’t have anything to say.”

Co-star Richard E. Grant saved her when he took the microphone and offered his own off-the-cuff flight of fantasy about his (non-existent) naked scene in Aspidistra.