Jul 25, 2007 10:49
After appearing in Harry Potter, Helena Bonham Carter is going to be starring in Sweeney Todd.
Sweeney Todd lived in Hastings, he and his fiancée lived above a butcher's shop (now a bridal shop). Her father owned the shop and he would have inherited the business had she not spurned him. In his fury, he killed her and fled to London where he started his infamous barber shop in Fleet Street.
Todd's reputation in London may have been fictional, but the fact he lived in Hastings and killed his lover is not.