Director Tim Burton has revealed that he's finally ready to marry his girlfriend, and mother of his two children, actress Helena Bonham Carter. The couple - who are currently engaged, first hooked up when Burton, 49, directed the English actress in Planet Of The Apes seven years ago.
They have two children, a son, Billy Ray Burton born October 4, 2003, and a daughter, whose name has not been announced, born December 15, 2007.
Burton, whose new film, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has just won best film musical and best actor in a musical for Johnny Depp at the Golden Globes, told Britain's Radio Times magazine: "Helena and I feel so married we never got around to doing it, but I'm thinking about it.
"I'm a late bloomer."
Bonham Carter, 41, who previously dated Kenneth Branagh, has appeared in Burton's movies Big Fish and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - and most recently, in the new Sweeney Todd film, where she revealed she made herself audition for the role as Mrs. Lovett - because she didn't want to feel like she only got the part because she slept with the director.
"I would safely say it made it much harder for me to get the part because the director was my boyfriend," she said. "He told me you look right for it, and potentially you are perfect for the role, but we have no idea if you can sing. I said well I will go away and try to learn, but I had to be righter than right. For my sake, I didn't want to feel like I got the part just because I slept with him. But at the end of the day Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the original musical, had the final say and I definitely didn't sleep with him!"
By Owen Williams, Jan 15 2008 © Copyright 2008 - Showbiz Spy
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