First The Governator talked Terminator yesterday and now Helen Bonham Carter is talking about her role in the upcoming sci-fi action film. Carter confirmed to Scifi.com that she will indeed be playing a bad guy/woman in Terminator Salvation.

“I kind of play a baddie, definitely a baddie,” Bonham Carter said, “I don’t know how much I’m allowed to say, but I’m a very bad person.”

Bonham Carter is a new addition to the cast of the film, which already includes Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin and Bryce Dallas Howard.

Bonham Carter (Sweeney Todd) replaced Tilda Swinton at the 11th hour and will work a total of about 10 days on the film, which is currently in production in New Mexico.

“Tim [Burton] would have killed me if I hadn’t done it, because he’s such a Terminator fan,” Bonham Carter said, referring to her longtime partner and director on such films as Planet of the Apes. “I’ve been in big movies before, like Apes, and Fight Club was big in a different way, and Charlie [and the Chocolate Factory] and Sweeney Todd were big, but I’ve never been in this kind of big popcorn action movie, a male one, an action one.”

Carter’s character’s name in the film has been confirmed as being Serena. I wonder if she is a going to be a similiar Terminator unit like Summer Glau is on the Sarah Conner Chronicles? They both kind of favor each other. Also Tilda Swinton would have been a good choice so it seems that they are really wanting a evil woman in the film, probably to make some kind of reference to John Conner’s mother and play with his emotions a little. I like Carter and she is always a good evil chick, this movie just keeps getting better for me.