Gemma Arterton is “bored” of being told she looks like Susan Boyle.

The British actress has hit the headlines for her curvy frame in the past, with some people criticising her for putting on weight.

The 26-year-old refuses to bow to pressure though and has no intention of dropping dress sizes just to please others. She thinks it’s unfair that people feel they can comment on her shape, especially as occasionally they are very rude.

Being compared to dowdy 50-year-old Scottish singer Susan was a step too far for Gemma.

“There was one reporter on the red carpet who said, ‘How does it feel to know the press thinks you’re fat?’ And I said, ‘How does it feel to know you are ugly and unintelligent?’ It was the equivalent of me giving him a wallop. I nearly did actually,” she told the March edition of UK Vogue.

“Someone else told me I looked like Susan Boyle. At first, you get really upset about it. And then you just get really bored with it. I wish I didn’t give a sh*t four years ago. It’s not my job to be Miss Perfect. I’m not a model, I’m an actor.”

Gemma wasn’t always one to turn the other cheek. As a young girl she remembers being furious when a man made sexual overtures to her while she was out with friends.

“I was quite strong-willed and not very good with boys. I was in this sh*t club in Gravesend [in the UK] and this boy pinched my a**e,” she recalled. “I turned around a decked him.

“He just didn’t know what hit him. Obviously, um, I did.”

The actress is now happily settled with her husband Stefano Catelli, who she married in 2010.

The couple spend a lot of time apart due to Gemma’s job but make sure they don’t go more than three weeks without seeing each other.

He is from Italy and comes from a Catholic background and Gemma gets on well with his family.

“[His mother is] like the anti-Italian mum – very chilled out,” she laughed.

“We decided not to have a religious ceremony, and we were worried that it might upset Stefano’s family – but they were so happy for us, because they could see we really love each other.”

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Benedict Cumberbatch, Gemma Arterton and Jonny Lee Miller are featured in the February 2012 issue of Vogue UK. They were photographed at London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Scans > Vogue (UK) – February 2012
- Scans > Clippings From 2012 –> thanks to the wonderful Lorna for the Star scan
- Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) > Related Clippings > SFX (UK) – March 2012
- Byzantium (2012) > Related Clippings > Related Clippings > Daily Mail (UK) – January 13, 2012

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Gemma Arterton was in the gym six days a week for a month to get into fighting — or maybe biting — form to play a vampire.

The actress stars as Clara, a vampire who has to protect herself and her daughter (played by Saoirse Ronan) from those seeking to plunge a stake through their hearts.

‘She’s brittle and she’s a fighter,’ said Gemma of the role she plays in Byzantium, which is directed by Neil Jordan.

The film — set in both the 18th century and the modern day — is not all glossy surface nonsense like the Twilight pictures. For starters, it has a compelling storyline and much better actors, including Sam Riley, Daniel Mays, Jonny Lee Miller and Tom Hollander. Read the rest of this entry »

By Edel O’Connell
Saturday Jan 7 2012

We’re more used to seeing her oozing glamour on the red carpet in haute couture and full make-up.

But actress and Bond girl Gemma Arterton could have been mistaken for just another student as she roamed the UCD campus yesterday.

Make-up-free and wearing a casual grey cardigan and practical, puffa-style jacket, teamed with leggings and biker boots, the 25-year-old British star was dressed for the chilly January weather.

But the overall effect meant she was virtually unrecognisable from her role as a glamorous brunette in the James Bond movie ‘Quantum Of Solace‘. Read the rest of this entry »

Gemma is also featured alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in the February 2012 issue of Vogue UK. I’ll be adding a scan as soon as I can find a copy of the magazine or as soon as someone is kind enough to send me a contribution.

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By Amy Williams

Taking time out from her filming schedule to draw attention to the deforestation crisis in Brazil was a no-brainer for Gemma Arterton. Amy Williams discovers why the actress prefers trekking in the remote Amazon jungle to being ‘styled and polished’ for premieres

Acording to Gemma Arterton, A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures, an animated film that was released last March and which very few people over the age of eight will have heard of, is ‘honestly, the best movie I have ever made’ and ‘absolutely brilliant’ and ‘cute but with a serious message. There are oil spills and stuff.’ Gemma provides the voice of love-interest turtle Shelly.

That Gemma – a former Bond girl who has found fame through blockbusters such as Prince of Persia: the Sands of Time and Clash of the Titans, and plaudits via critically acclaimed movies The Disappearance of Alice Creed and Tamara Drewe – should choose a film which is a) a cartoon, b) has the tag line ‘He’s Turtlely Amazing’, and c), in Gemma’s own words, ‘no one has actually seen’, tells us quite a bit about 25-year-old Ms Arterton. Read the rest of this entry »

What kind of adult does a kid become after surviving a trip to a cannibalistic witch’s gingerbread house?

That’s the premise of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters* (out March 2), which uses the centuries-old German folktale as a preamble to a larger story of vengeance and the bonds between siblings — particularly abused ones.

Next Thursday, look for a trailer from the Paramount film. But for now, we see a first look at Jeremy Renner’s Hansel and Gemma Arterton’s Gretel, all grown up. (Click the picture for a larger view.)

Though older, they’re still prowling the woods for little old ladies who like to devour wayward children. Arterton discussed the approach of the movie, directed by Tommy Wirkola (the Nazi zombie saga Dead Snow), and how it’s as much Pulp Fiction as fairytale…

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How does this movie incorporate the original Brothers Grimm tale? Is that story kind of a prologue?
GEMMA ARTERON: Yes, it continues it. You see a series of flashbacks with their experience of killing that first witch, which is brilliant. I remember being on set for the final few days of that. The candy house, and the witches are really repulsive and quite frightening. The makeup is out of this world. It’s this bone-chilling scene. Very dark. The girl who plays my character is brilliant, with the horrified expression she has. Read the rest of this entry »

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- Scans: Independent On Sunday (UK) – November 20, 2011, thanks to Lorna
- Scans: Daily Mail (UK) – November 21, 2011, thanks to Lorna
- Scans: Hello (UK) – November 21, 2011, thanks to Lorna
- Scans: ES Magazine (UK) – October 14, 2011, thanks to Lorna
- Scans: Hello (UK) – November 14, 2011

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Although she brought along her Spanish husband Stefano Catelli to an awards ceremony last night, there is one place that stunning actress Gemma Arterton will not be taking him to — the strip club she is planning to visit.

Former Bond girl Gemma, 25, tells me she is off to study strippers after filmmaker Neil Jordan cast her as a lady of the night in his next movie.

‘I play a prostitute called Clara. It’s a tough role but more and more I am choosing parts that are as different from the real me as possible.

‘I’m not scared of a challenge. I prefer it that way,’ she tells me.

Gemma, who married sales manager Stefano last summer in a ceremony in Andalucia, adds that to get into the part properly she will have to visit some less than salubrious venues.

‘I’m going to have to go to a strip club or somewhere like that,’ says Gemma, who was giving out the best actor gong at the Evening Standard theatre awards.

‘It’s something I’m dreading because I am a real prude and I know that in places like that my immediate reaction is to feel “eugh”.

‘But I’ve got to understand it’s something I need to do for the part. I will not be going with my husband.’

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By Adam Jacques

People always bring up movies I’m not proud of Sometimes I think, ‘Oh God,’ but in a way they serve a purpose; they allow me to go off and do other things. Loads of actors do it, and I have to remind myself of that.

Being on stage makes me feel alive With film, you’ve no control over the finished product – something I feel increasingly irritated by – but on stage, I have control over what I do, and it’s where I can really flourish.

Stephen Dillane is one of the best actors in the world I played opposite him in [an acclaimed stage production of Ibsen's] Master Builder. It’s a fascinating play about a middle-aged architect [played by Dillane] and the ambiguous relationship I have with him. I’ve done plays where you think, ‘Urghh, God, I’ve got to do that scene again,’ but with [Dillane] I never got bored.

I have a terrible temper It’s because I’m a perfectionist, particularly when cooking. Once I made the perfect lemon meringue pie, from scratch, but one small thing went wrong and I threw the whole thing against the wall.

I like not knowing what my next job is I deal well with the uncertainty and relish the surprises. I couldn’t have been an actor without that [ability].

Always listen to your instincts I had an amazing acting teacher when I was studying and she said that instincts were always right. Whenever I haven’t listened to them, I’ve always regretted it, whether it’s looking at a piece of art I want to buy or reading a script.

Never put pressure on yourself to be something I was never really academic so if I hadn’t have been an actor I would have been an artist, I think.

I wish everyone could go to the [Amazon] rainforest and see the huge areas of deforestation After my trip there [promoting the World Wildlife Fund's campaign to help save a billion trees] I got more conscientious. I don’t eat red meat now because lots of the rainforest is being destroyed to make way for cattle ranches. It’s a small thing but I believe it makes a difference.

Gemma Arterton, 25, is an English actor. Sky Rainforest Rescue’s ‘Amazon‘, featuring photographs from Gemma’s trip, runs until 4 December at London’s Somerset House. sky.com/rainforestrescue

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By Emine Saner

Gemma Arterton used to be ‘the girl from the Bond film’, but three years on she has stopped feeling grateful and begun speaking out about her industry

The first film role Gemma Arterton played was Mickey Mouse. She was five, her younger sister, taking on the role of Donald Duck, was two, “and there’s this video of us, where we’re watching Mickey Mouse and I’m making my sister act it out with me. And I’ve really got it down! I used to do that stuff all the time, just copying.” Disney films were pretty much the only art in her childhood, she says. “My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn’t very into films.” It wasn’t until she was about 16 that she realised that acting could be a legitimate job. Read the rest of this entry »

10 minutes with Gemma Arterton — The face of G Star Raw on toughening up for a fairy tale.

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