Helena Bonham Carter Gets Naked With A Giant Tuna
It’s no longer news when a celebrity gets naked in support of something, particular PETA. But this work, featuring a very naked Helena Bonham Carter…and a tuna, is a bit different.
Sure it’s for a cause. A good one, in fact. Called Fishlove, the campaign, something Carter’s friend Greta Scacchi is behind, calls attention to over fishing.
Bonham Carter was shot by Scacchi alongside a bigeye tuna, but she had to initially warm up to the idea of posing with the fish.
“I’m actually very phobic about fish,” she told the Daily Mail. “So when Greta asked me to be photographed naked with a 27kg tuna I was more worried about touching it than getting my kit off.” However her dedication to protecting marine life helped the actress conquer her fear.
Bonham Carter, who was joined by model Lizzie Jagger and actress Emilia Fox for the campaign, took her activism further by speaking in front of the U.K.’s House of Commons earlier this week to lobby for additional marine reserves in the British Overseas Territories.
“There is a new movement, spearheaded by the Blue Marine Foundation and others, encouraging the Government to invest in creating marine reserves — fish refuges really — where they are safe from the ravages of industrial-scale fishing and where they can regenerate, ” Bonham Carter said.
#FishLove with Helena & the bigeye tuna. Why we need more protection for #GreatBritishOceans in today’s @standardnews pic.twitter.com/MPe5cK4ebc
— MRC (@MRC_marine) February 11, 2015