Gemma is featured in today’s Evening Standard Magazine. There’s a full page with a very interesting and unique interview and also a brand new photo.

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- Magazine Scans: Evening Standard Magazine (UK) - October 31, 2008

A proud drama teacher has praised a former student who has made it to the Hollywood glitterati as the next Bond girl.

Kent-born Gemma Arterton, 22, has bagged the top role of Agent Fields in the latest 007 Blockbuster Quantum Of Solace that opens next Friday.

Her former drama teacher Liz Rosenthal, who still teaches at her former school Gravesend Grammar School for Girls told the Times: “She is doing extremely well and I am very proud to have taught her, it is what every drama teacher must dream of.

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They’re probably the last ones we’ll be seeing.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Scans from 2008: Independent Magazine (UK) - October 17, 2008
- Scans from 2008: Scotland On Sunday (UK) - October 19, 2008
- Personal Pictures: Youg Gemma

With a special thank to you to the always helpful Lorna!

Bond girl’s gran on how teen became 007 beauty QUANTUM OF SOLACE

Day one in her new job and to Gemma Arterton it seemed like a dream.

She was kissing a shirtless Daniel Craig - and we’re not talking just a peck on the cheek.

Gemma, 22, was wrapped in the kind of clinch that has already seen her labelled as the sexiest-ever Bond girl - even before the new movie Quantum Of Solace reaches cinemas.

“Kissing Daniel was great, I can’t pretend it wasn’t - I was just like a giggly girl and he was very cool,” Gemma says.

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From working-class drama student to new Bond girl, Gemma Arterton has enjoyed a remarkable rise in fortunes. She talks to Andrea Hale about ‘the best job ever’ in the latest 007 blockbuster, kissing with confidence and Daniel Craig’s ‘phwoar factor’

EVERYONE gets a few butterflies on their first day in a new job, but for Bond girl Gemma Arterton, the experience was especially intense. “When I saw Daniel Craig in Casino Royale, I was just like: ‘Phwoar!’” says the 22-year-old. “I went to see it last year and thought it was fantastic. I remember thinking: ‘Well, I never thought I’d end up acting with that person coming out the water in their trunks, let alone giving them a kiss.’

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Gemma Arterton graduated from St Trinian’s to star as Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Now she’s playing opposite Daniel Craig in the new Bond film. Is this the start of global domination for the girl from Gravesend?

The moment Gemma Arterton heard she’d be the new Bond girl is ingrained on her mind for ever. She was on a boat, just off the coast of Gibraltar, filming the comedy Three and Out with Mackenzie Crook. Dressed in full scuba-diving gear – what else would a prospective Bond girl be wearing? – Arterton answered her mobile phone to her agent, who immediately began humming the James Bond theme down the line; the role of Agent Fields in the 22nd 007 film, Quantum of Solace, was hers. So moved was Crook, he shed a tear for his co-star and uttered, “This is such a big moment in your life.”

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Gemma Arterton is worried being in the new James Bond film will ruin her career.

The actress - who plays Agent Fields in Quantum of Solace - is concerned she may be typecast and will “never work again” after the film’s release.

She said: “Luckily, I haven’t had time to reflect but appearing with 007 carries the threat of a career crash, as has happened in the past. Sometimes it closes doors.

“People have asked me, ‘Are you worried about not getting work after Bond?’ I don’t know. I could be in the biggest film, be absolute rubbish in it and never work again.”

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Arterton, 22, still has small lumps on the side of her hands following the childhood procedures to have the extra digits removed.

The fingers were “tied”, causing them to fall off naturally.

“It’s my little oddity that I’m really proud of,” she told Esquire magazine. “It makes me different.”

The actress, who plays Agent Fields in Quantum of Solace, James Bond’s 22nd adventure, revealed earlier this year that she was also born with a “crumpled ear” that had to be corrected with surgery.

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Casino Royale was a hugely successful return to a darker, grittier Bond in tune with Ian Fleming’s original vision.

Its sequel is even more of a throwback

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‘Kissing Daniel was great - I can’t pretend that it wasn’t,’ Gemma Arterton talks about falling for 007’s charms

Gemma Arterton: ‘Kissing Daniel was great – I can’t pretend it wasn’t. It was my first day on set and I’d only met him once before – and then suddenly we were expected to kiss. But I just couldn’t get that image of him walking out of the sea in Casino Royale out of my head. He was very cool and I was a giggling mess. I mumbled something like, “I just kissed you!” and he just coolly said, “Yes, you did. And now we have to do it again.” Fortunately, he’s an incredible kisser.’

Daniel Craig: ‘Gemma’s character is great and she plays it to the hilt. She’s an agent who seems clueless, but she’s smarter than we first think.

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So, what did you think of last night’s episode of Tess?

BBC1’s adaptation of Tess of the D’Urbervilles lost 600,000 viewers for its second episode last night, but still managed to top ITV1 drama Agatha Christie’s Poirot, and movie productions The Notebook and Black Hawk Down in the 9pm hour. Not bad at all!

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Her favourite actress is Elizabeth Taylor, her film Mary Poppins and her book The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. She is teaching herself Spanish and is a fine singer. She is the protagonist of BBC1’s adapation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles and the hot new Bond girl who’s gonna blow everyone away. Watch out for Gemma Arterton!

Is it me or Tatler (and the production of Prince of Persia) went for a modern and tanned version of Cleopatra?

GALLERY LINKS:
- Photoshoots: Empire (2008)
- Magazine Scans: The Herald Newspaper (UK) - September 16, 2008, thanks to Lorna
- Magazine Scans: Tatler (UK) - October, thanks to Lorna

Step by step, Gemma Arterton has quietly pushed her way to the front of film and television with a series of leading roles, including Tess in the recent BBC dramatisation and the ITV comedy-drama Lost in Austen. And now, of course, Bond.

Arterton, who is 22, won the role of the MI6 operative Agent Fields six months after graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. “Gemma is incredibly talented and extremely witty,” says director Marc Forster, who chose Arterton from around 7000 actresses.

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I’ve just added 23 new scans concerning Tess of the D’Urbervilles and, of course, the actress behind the series. A huge thank you goes out to the ever wonderful Lorna! Please click here to view our most recent scans uploads. And enjoy!

Although times have changed in the 117 years since Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles first emerged, the novel’s central social message still rings true: chaos and confoundment will ensue whenever the dung-coated lower orders develop ideas above their station.

And so alas, the tragic Mummersetshire histoire of poor young Tess Durbeyfield unfolded across assorted scenic real-life locations in the first of the sumptuous dramatisation’s four parts. Mangle my dear old wurzle: such sadness in a common girl’s aspiration.

For Tess’s ruinous delusion is that she’s more than a lowly country hoyden. She imagines she can master the reading of books and become a teacher - an outrageous conceit.

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Gemma Arterton let the RocknRolla crew stare at her breasts.

The actress says she quickly adapted to filming in a male-dominated environment after previously working on a nearly-all female movie.

The 22-year-old said: “RocknRolla was properly boys’ own. I’d just done St. Trinian’s, so I was like, ‘Oh, there aren’t any girls.’

“I came on set and I, literally, was the totty. I had tight jeans on and a tight top with a push-up bra. Everybody was like, ‘A girl?!’ and talking to me at boob height. I thought, ‘I’ll let you off, as you haven’t had any boobs to stare at for a while.’

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As a new version of Tess of the D’Urbervilles hits our screens, its producers and star Ruth Jones tell Serena Davies about the show’s ‘what if?’ factor and how the BBC added a freshness to the story

Tess of the D’Urbervilles has what Gavin & Stacey’s Ruth Jones, corseted and barely recognisable as Tess’s mother in BBC1’s new four-part adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s tale, calls the ‘what if? factor’. What if the trusting country girl Tess Durbeyfield had never gone to ‘claim kin’ with Alec D’Urberville, the rich imposter who pretended her ancient family name was his own – and then raped her? What if Tess had never told her true love, Angel Clare, of that rape? What if the priggish Angel had forgiven Tess a little sooner for this sin that was never hers in the first place – and thus pre-empted the calamity that befell her?

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When the opening credits roll on the BBC’s new production of Thomas Hardy’s Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, they will herald one of the most incredible dramas of all time.

It is a story of passion, loss and the battle for survival against the odds. Not the script for Tess’s tragic life but the extraordinary real-life events that threatened to make Tess the first ever costume drama without any costumes.

A devastating fire four weeks into filming destroyed 750 period costumes, worth an eyewatering £320,000. Crucially, it left major actors with only the outfits they had worn in the previous day’s scenes.

With no time spare to delay filming, costume designer James Keast had just 24 hours to replace the costumes.

What followed was a series of remarkable makeshift measures, culminating in one major star wearing a shirt fashioned from James’s own duvet cover.

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Andy Welch talks to the newest Bond girl about playing Thomas Hardy’s eponymous heroine and the differences between period drama and Hollywood blockbusters

Despite spending the last few months in some of the world’s most glamorous locations filming one of the year’s most anticipated films, Gemma Arterton still describes filming Tess Of The D’Urbervilles as the best time of her life.

When you consider the amount of time she spent during shooting of the forthcoming Bond film getting up close and personal with buff leading man Daniel Craig, that praise seems even more startling.

“I loved every minute of it,” says Gemma,

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Gemma Arterton romps with 007 in the new James Bond but now she’s gearing up for the ultimate Tess.

She told TV Land that playing the lead in Tess of the D’Urbervilles is “the highlight of my career so far”. And having seen the first episode, starting Sunday night on BBC1, I have to agree.

“When I found out I’d got the part, I was ecstatic,” she says. “I never thought I’d get to play a leading role in a period drama at the BBC.”

And to make matters even more magical, she got to film at Stonehenge.

Gemma recalls: “We were overcome just thinking, ‘Wow this is where Thomas Hardy imagined the scene to take place.’ When you walk in, there’s something spooky about it.”

Less magical was filming a rape scene.

But Gemma says: “I’m not the sort who takes it with them. I’d be in a bleak scene all day and come out talking about shoes!”

Well Gemma, that’s certainly no mean feat.

Source: Mirror.co.uk

GALLERY LINKS:
- Quantum of Solace (2008) : Production Stills
- Lost in Austen (2008) : DVD
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles (2008) : DVD
- Magazine Scans: TV Choice (UK) - September 13-19, 2008, thanks to Lorna
- Magazine Scans: TV Times (UK) - September 13-19, 2008, thanks to Lorna