Helena Bonham Carter to play Elizabeth Taylor

'Les Miserables' star Helena Bonham Carter will be playing Elizabeth Taylor in a new BBC drama exploring her torrid romance with Richard Burton. The 43-year-old will play the legendary Welsh actor in "Burton & Taylor", telling the story of their appearance in a 1983 revival of Noel Coward's play Private Lives, reported Daily Express. The pair gripped film�goers in the Sixties and Seventies with their stormy marriages, the first of which lasted from 1964 to 1974. But just 16 months after divorcing they remarried, only to split up again in 1976. "Elizabeth was 51, still every inch a star, still beautiful and they still needed each other, but this was professional. They were doing Noel Coward's Private Lives on stage, playing a couple who used to be married. People wondered if they were still in love and whether they'd be playing themselves or their characters," Carter said. London�born Taylor, who died in 2011 aged 79, married eight times. But her most famous romance was with Burton. A BBC spokesman said "Burton & Taylor" would offer viewers an insight into "one of the most fascinating, glamorous and tempestuous relationships of the 20th century".