Gemma Arterton talks to the Metro about wanting to spread her acting wings and take on less commercial roles as she aims to rid herself of being known as ‘that girl from Bond’, and why working in a pub was her best first job.

What did you get up to in Brazil?

It’s an initiative between Sky and the WWF to raise awareness of deforestation and to save a billion trees in three years. I went to the state of Acre. There’s a road being built and usually loggers get in and it leads to deforestation. It’s easy to deforest, it’s quick money, so this is about giving people other means to make a living by using the rainforest. They love the forest they live in and don’t want to chop it down but they’re so poor they often don’t have a choice. They’ve been changing the way they live as part of the campaign.
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Glamour Women of the Year – Film Actress Gemma Arterton. You’ve fallen for Gemma Arterton’s talent, and Hollywood’s pretty keen, too. Some actors wait their entire career to accumulate the diverse range of roles that Gemma has already notched up. Congrats, Gemma!

GALLERY LINKS:
- Scans: Glamour (UK) – July 2011, thanks to Lorna
- Scans: Metro (UK) – June 8, 2011, thanks to Lorna

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Big thanks to Lorna and Elmira.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Scans > Sunday Telegraph Seven (UK) – March 27, 2011
- Scans > Empire (Russia) – February 2011
- Scans > Clippings From 2011
- Modeling > Tesco – Climate Week T-shirt

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BAFTA Longlist

The longlist for this year’s Orange British Academy Film Awards was announced yesterday. Gemma Arterton is on it for her leading actress performances in Alice Creed and Tamara Drewe. Congratulations! The full nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 18.

Andrea Riseborough (Rose) – Brighton Rock
Annette Bening (Nic) – The Kids Are All Right *
Carey Mulligan (Kathy) – Never Let Me Go *
Gemma Arterton (Alice) – The Disappearance Of Alice Creed
Gemma Arterton (Tamara Drewe) – Tamara Drewe
Hailee Steinfeld (Mattie Ross) – True Grit
Jennifer Lawrence (Ree) – Winter’s Bone
Julianne Moore (Jules) – The Kids Are All Right *
Michelle Williams (Cindy) – Blue Valentine *
Natalie Portman (Nina Sayers / The Swan Queen) – Black Swan *
Nicole Kidman (Becca) – Rabbit Hole
Noomi Rapace (Lisbeth Salander) – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Rosamund Pike (Miriam Grant-Panofsky) – Barney’s Version
Sally Hawkins (Rita O’Grady) – Made In Dagenham
Tilda Swinton (Emma Recchi) – I Am Love

* Denotes Chapter selection from Round One

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Hottest Actress – Gemma Arterton

We Say: With Hollywood blockbusters (Clash Of the Titans, Prince Of Persia) a Brit com (Tamara Drewe) and the low-budget thrills of Alice Creed, no-one displayed more range in 2010. And there’s more to come…

You Say: “She’s clearly in demand for big Hollywood movies but still does stuff like The Disappearance of Alice Creed, which she was great in. I think she’s the most interesting actress out there right now.” Simon Clements, Newquay Read the rest of this entry »

The gallery has been updated with DVD screencaps, including extras, of Gemma’s performance in The Disappearance of Alice Creed. Please note that the images do contain spoilers and mature content.

GALLERY LINKS:
DVD Screencaptures – Menus
DVD Screencaptures
DVD Screencaptures – Extended Scene: Alice Gets the Gun
DVD Screencaptures – Outtakes
DVD Screencaptures – Storyboard Comparison
DVD Screencaptures – Trailer
DVD Screencaptures – UK Trailer

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Thanks to Elena!

GALLERY LINKS:
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010): Production Stills
- The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2010): Production Stills

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GALLERY LINK:
- The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2010): DVD Screencaptures – Making Of

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Since 1904, London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) has almost single-handedly kept the British actors’ union flush with members. John Gielgud, Anthony Hopkins and Kenneth Branagh are just a fraction of the school’s famous alumni. More recently, Gemma Arterton, star of this weekend’s Tamara Drewe, studied there before becoming Britain’s latest “it girl.”

“I left RADA three years ago and never expected I would have a film career,” she says. “I always thought I would do theatre, and then it happened and I said, ‘Yes, yes, yes’ to every job without thinking about it. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s just a fluke of industry timing and economics that Gemma Arterton happens to have opened four films this year in the United States, the last of which — Tamara Drewe — begins its run today in limited release. It’s stranger still that we won’t see Arterton again for at least another year — just when we’d gotten used to her charm, poise, talent and allure. What gives?

A few months after we’d met to discuss her turn as the title character in the twisty, terrific thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Arterton and I convened round two to talk over Tamara Drewe, director Stephen Frears’s adaptation of the celebrated graphic novel by Posy Simmonds. The actress once again plays the title character, a hotshot young newspaper columnist who stirs up a cauldron of lust, jealousy, gossip, regret, infidelity and not just a few mixed signals upon returning to her bucolic hometown in the English countryside. Artists vie for her affections, exes wonder what they’ve missed (especially since the nose job that turned ugly duckling Tamara into a brassy young swan) and a pair of teen girls conspire to destroy her life. Read the rest of this entry »

GALLERY LINK:
- Scans from 2010: Flaunt (USA) – November 2010

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Gemma Arterton | Binding Truths
The London It-Girl Won’t Mince Words

A very amiable Gemma Arterton has just arrived and is disarmingly appraising my locket. “Beautiful,” she says, sitting down to order a coffee. We are in a French café on the King’s Road in London and the 24-year-old is early. Surprising for an actress, no? “Actually, I’ve just walked my husband to work,” she smiles. “He’s a sales manager at a fashion company near here.” In a beige t-shirt and black harem pants, but without a scrap of make-up, Arterton’s look is more fashionable London media-type than Hollywood starlet. Read the rest of this entry »

Many thanks to both Lorna and Elmira for their precious and much appreciated contributions!

GALLERY LINKS:
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010): SFX (UK) – November 2010
- Tamara Drewe (2010): Production Stills
- The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009): Times Playlist (UK) – October 2-8, 2010
- Scans from 2010: Clippings From 2010
- Scans from 2010: 7 Days (Russia) – May 24-30, 2010

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Read our roundtable interview with Gemma Arterton, who plays the title role in the upcoming British romantic ensemble comedy ‘Tamara Drewe.’ The movie is scheduled to begin a limited theatrical release on October 8, 2010, in New York and Los Angeles. The film tells the story of London journalist Tamara Drewe as she goes back to her family farm in the countryside of Ewedown, and the infatuations, love and sexual affairs and career ambitions of the people of the small rural town. This is Arterton’s fourth leading movie role this year, after ‘The Disappearance of Alice Creed, ‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’ and ’Clash of the Titans.’

Question (Q): In one of the reviews of the movie, one of the lines reads: “The movie’s success rises and falls with Gemma Arterton.”

Gemma Arterton (GA): Is that a good thing?!?
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There is a moment in the film Tamara Drewe when the sultry Gemma Arterton wears a tight red top and a skimpy pair of hotpants. It’s a deeply provocative image that was used on the poster for the film in France.

Her new film project is as intriguing as Arterton herself. In the film, which is a celluloid version of Posy Simmonds’ cult cartoon novel, Arterton plays the eponymous lead, a girl who leaves rural Dorset to seek fame as a journalist, only to return to her childhood home when her mother dies.

Central to the plot is Drewe’s reinvention of herself. As a schoolgirl, she was a dowdy, almost ugly, girl with a huge nose. Arterton had to wear a prosthetic nose and greasy hair. Her return as a beautiful femme fatale was as unexpected as it was electrifying, but through flashbacks we learn that the catalyst for her transformation from caterpillar to butterfly was a nose job that transformed her looks and bolstered her confidence. Read the rest of this entry »

Tamera Drewe star Gemma Arterton walks her first red carpet
By Norman Wilner

Gemma Arterton is making up for lost time at the Toronto Film Festival.

Last year, she was unable to attend the TIFF premiere of her thriller The Disappearance Of Alice Creed because she was off shooting Stephen Frears’s pastoral comedy Tamara Drewe. But this year, Tamara Drewe is in the festival as a Special Presentation, meaning Arterton finally got to walk her first TIFF red carpet Sunday night (see pictures of her rolling into the party here). Read the rest of this entry »