Helena Bonham Carter appears in only ONE scene that isn’t a flashback: “Eudoria is the ultimate missing protagonist,” said the iconic actress. “When [director Harry Bradbeer] offered me the role I told him, ‘Well, this may be the smallest part I’m ever going to play, but it’s also the best because she has so much colour to her.’ The script just works. It’s a really funny and ingenious story. She’s a woman that I’d love to have met.” Bonham Carter said that, as the Holmes matriarch, Eudoria is “also the mother to the most famous genius on earth, Sherlock Holmes, so I felt that there should be seeds of him in her — so I insisted that I smoke a pipe and I teach my daughter to watch, to look, to listen and to be aware and know what is going on at all times and use all her deductive thinking.”
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