Seriously, can we please talk about how fucking amazing an actress Helena Bonham Carter is?
When I was watching this, I just thought it had to be Emma Watson wearing a Bellatrix mask. Just look at her facial expressions, delicate and hesitant, how precisely they mimic those of Watson’s Hermione, what an amazing job she does looking deeply uncomfotable in someone else’s skin. Even when Hermione tries to be Bellatrix more convincingly, by being a bit haughty, it still looks like Emma Watson playing Hermione playing Bellatrix. When in fact it is HBC playing Emma Watson playing Hermione playing Bellatrix.
And you. can’t. tell. the. difference. at. all.
This sequence has got to be one of the most exceptional bits of acting in the entire movie franchise. I was just blown away.