Helena Bonham Carter and Greg Davies to Star in BBC Comedy 'The Cleaner'
Helena Bonham Carter is moving on from the high drama of The Crown to a very different sort of series. She is joining The Inbetweeners' star Greg Davies in the cast of a BBC comedy titled simply The Cleaner. The series is an adaptation of the long-running German comedy series Der Tatorreiniger (Crime Scene Cleaner).
The series is written by Davies, and will follow Paul ‘Wicky’ Wickstead, a state-certified cleaning technician with a very special field of work: he is a crime-scene cleaner responsible for the removal of any signs of death.
Bonham Carter is best known for her slightly off-kilter dramatic roles like Madame Thenardier in Les Miserables, the cannibalistic Mrs. Lovett in Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, or Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter movies. A comedy of any stripe, no matter how offbeat it might be, is certainly an interesting choice for her as an actress and something we haven't seen much of in the past.
