Helena Bonham Carter has revealed she had to campaign to be given wings to play the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella.
The film, directed by Kenneth Branagh, is a live action remake of the Disney cartoon, and the Fairy Godmother in the animated version is a little old lady in a cape with a wand but no wings.
Helena revealed when she boarded the project, her costume didn’t have any wings, so she kicked up a fuss.
She said: “I’ve got lots of opinions, but luckily I’ve got a very good relationship with Ken, so Ken said, You can have a lot of say.
“There were no wings, and I thought it was incredibly obvious that she should have wings, but there were no wings when I first came in. She looked like Elizabeth I, a virginal Elizabeth I.
“And I said ‘wings!’ There was a bit of a tussle. It went to the head, it went to Ken, ‘She wants wings, she wants wings,’ and eventually I got my way.
“I said there is no six-year-old girl who is going to believe that I’m a fairy if I don’t have wings.”
Cinderella is released in cinemas on Friday March 27.
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