Madeline Ashton & Helen Sharp

Appearance: Madeline is portrayed as a beautiful, glamorous movie star who is acutely aware of her aging. In the film, she is older than 43, the age Meryl Streep was during filming, but she strives to maintain a youthful appearance, according to this IMDb trivia page. Personality: She is characterized by her vanity, narcissism, and insecurity, especially regarding her looks. She sees herself as the most beautiful actress ever and desperately clings to her fame. Relationship with Helen Sharp: Madeline and Helen have a long-standing toxic rivalry, or "best of frenemies," relationship. Madeline is a force in Helen's life, having stolen her fiancé, Ernest Menville, years prior. Role in the movie: Madeline is one of the two protagonists and a villainess, along with Helen. Both women are driven to extreme measures by their jealousy of one another and a desperate desire for eternal beauty. She is the one who convinces Helen to seek the secret to eternal life.

• Appearance Initial Appearance: Helen is first shown as a mousy, somewhat plain woman with an average figure and a brown bob haircut, wearing baggy or comfortable clothes. She is deeply insecure about her appearance, especially when compared to the glamorous Madeline Ashton. Decline: After losing her fiancé to Madeline, Helen falls into a severe depression, becoming morbidly obese and unkempt, a shut-in who is eventually institutionalized. Post-Potion Appearance: After drinking the immortality potion, she transforms dramatically, becoming stunningly beautiful with a slim, toned figure, long, wavy red hair, heavy makeup, and glamorous red dresses. Undead Appearance: In the film's climax and resolution, her body begins to decay after sustaining mortal injuries. She appears as a "parody" of her former self, with a hole in her stomach and cracked, grey, rotting flesh, which she tries to cover with putty and paint.
• Personality Initially, Helen is shy, timid, and insecure. Her deep-seated envy of Madeline's success and beauty drives her to a mental breakdown and an obsession with revenge. After taking the potion, she becomes charismatic, manipulative, and egotistical, mirroring Madeline's vanity and self-centeredness. She is also incredibly envious and eventually becomes as ruthless as her rival, plotting to kill Madeline.
• Role in the Movie Helen is the co-protagonist and co-villainess of the film, sharing the central conflict with Madeline. Her primary role is to act as Madeline's love rival. She drives the plot forward by introducing Madeline to Ernest Menville (who was her own fiancé at the time) and then, years later, by discovering the secret to eternal youth and manipulating Ernest into helping her seek revenge on Madeline.
• Relationship with Madeline Their relationship is one of intense, lifelong rivalry and toxic friendship. They have hated each other since childhood, with the conflict escalating