From the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland to Bellatrix Le Strange in Harry Potter and Mrs Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Helena Bonham Carter has brought many well-loved fictional characters to life on the big screen.

But she’s also played parts that have shone a light on interesting women in history, too - like Edith New in Suffragette and Queen Elizabeth in The King’s Speech.

In short: Bonham Carter has a catalogue of work to her name that a lot of actors could only dream of.

However, the actress has revealed that she’s faced a few testing moments when some roles could’ve been taken away from her, simply because she stood up to Harvey Weinstein.

“There were times when Harvey asked me to do certain things, and I said no,” Bonham Carter told the Guardian while discussing her new film, 55 Steps. “I knew I was running a thin line. Standing up to him wasn’t an easy thing to do because I knew I could potentially lose work.”

During the filming of the Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 2013 film, The Young and Prodigious TS Spivet, she stood her ground with Weinstein when he wanted her to change a particular scene.

“Harvey wanted me to tell Jeunet [the director] to change it,” explained Bonham Carter. “There is a scene in which he hitchhikes and Harvey said as soon as that kid gets into a truck everyone will think the truck driver is a child molester and all the kids in America will be freaked out. I said: ‘I don’t think you’re right, and I’m not going to tell Jean-Pierre Jeunet I know better than him.’”

According to Bonham Carter, Weinstein responded: “‘You’ve got to tell that arrogant a*****e he’s being a s**t, he doesn’t know the American market like I do.’ I found it revolting.”

Helena Bonham Carter reveals the moment when she stood up to Harvey Weinstein