“Clash of the Titans” starlet and ex-Bond girl Gemma Arterton said last night during the Manhattan premiere of her newest effort “The Disappearance of Alice Creed” that she’s enamoured with New York.
“My friend told me to go to this hot dog store — there was a secret phone booth in the store. After we said how many people there were a secret door opened. I loved it,” the 24-year-old British-born brunette stunner said.
Niteside told Arterton she was talking about PDT, the secret speakeasy on St. Marks Place. The starlet also waxed nostalgic about her first visit to the city.
“The first time I came here I was 17 with my father, and he said I was destined to move here,” smiled Gemma. “I have a real love affair with it but I’m too close to London. It’s just got a cooler vibe than London.“
Former Bond girl Gemma Arterton suffered for her art filming new movie The Disappearance of Alice Creed – she was left with rope burns and cuts after playing a defenceless kidnapping victim.
The British actress spent hours gagged and bound on set, but admits that while the shoot was at times physically painful, it also allowed her to catch up on her rest as she filmed the majority of her scenes on a bed.
She tells WENN, “Obviously it’s physically draining because I was in a constant state of tension when making the movie…
Q. But spending hours with that gag in your mouth must have been awful?
Gemma Arterton: Well, you don’t spend hours in it… you take it out between takes. There were times when it did get a bit much. The mummification scene was hardcore, because I also had the gag in. It felt weird. But it was a really trustworthy situation. I never felt at any point like I was being taken advantage of. I was in such good hands. I could also spit the gag out whenever I wanted to. On the first couple of days, I remember saying: “Yeah, put the gag on tight!” But then I was: “Actually, no…” It tasted horrible as well… of Listerine or something weird. It’s quite funny, though, because I’m kind of a chatty person and the props guys would have to handcuff me and tie me up and sometimes I’d just be chatting and they’d just pop it back in… like: “OK now, shut up!” [Laughs]
Maple Pictures, the Canadian distributors for The Disappearance of Alice Creed are currently allowing fans to submit questions to Gemma Arterton for an exclusive video interview for their social media sites. Join their Facebook page and submit a question!
À 24 ans, Gemma Arterton est l’Anglaise qui monte à Hollywood. Ex-James Bond Girl de Quantum of Solace, elle incarne aujourd’hui Tamina, la princesse des mille et une nuits de Prince of Persia, de Mike Newell, adapté du jeu vidéo. Elle sera victime d’un kidnapping dans La Disparition d’Alice Creed (sortie le 30 juin), thriller de J. Blakeson, puis à l’affiche de Tamara Drewe (sortie le 14 juillet), comédie de Stephen Frears.
LE FIGAROSCOPE – Comment avez-vous décroché le rôle très convoité de Tamina ?
Gemma ARTERTON – Je pensais n’avoir aucune chance, j’y suis donc allée au culot. Les réalisateurs préfèrent les actrices qui ont de la personnalité. Lors de l’audition, Mike Newell m’a demandé si j’étais capable d’avoir un accent snob. J’ai répliqué : « Bien sûr que je peux prendre cet accent, j’ai fait cette p… de Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ! » Il m’a engagée.
2010 est une année faste pour l’actrice anglaise, à l’affiche de grosses distributions hollywoodiennes comme Prince of Persia et Le Choc des titans. Et brille dans deux films indépendants très réussis: La Disparition d’Alice Creed, de J. Blakeson, et le désopilant Tamara Drewe, de Stephen Frears.
Allô? Je suis dans le métro, à Londres, dit-elle d’une voix rauque. Vous m’entendez?” On entend parfaitement. On est aussi étonné: Gemma Arterton n’a donc pas de chauffeur? “Non, je déteste ça: on se sent coupé du monde.” Et c’est ce qu’il y a de terriblement attirant chez cette actrice, qui passe des blockbusters -Le Choc des titans, Prince of Persia- à des films indépendants, “so british” comme elle le dit si bien avec son accent cockney. Elle a beau avoir joué Shakespeare sur les planches, donné la réplique à Daniel Craig dans le dernier James Bond, Gemma, 24 ans, écoute toujours sa maman, femme de ménage, et son papa, ouvrier métallurgiste: “J’étais si fière d’avoir tourné des films à gros budget… Ils les ont trouvés nuls!”
Atenção fãs brasileiros da Gemma Arterton! Participem da comunidade do Orkut dedicada à nossa querida atriz inglesa que é moderada pela Sofia! E não se esqueçam de votar nela e em Fúria de Titãs e Príncipe da Pérsia no Teen Choice Awards!
The Disappearance of Alice Creed has been and gone in cinemas in the UK but it’s yet to be released in the US. It’s directed by J Blakeson and as well as Arterton, stars Martin Compston and Eddie Marsan.
It’s not got a release date on DVD yet in the UK but you can sign up for notifications here. The movie is to be released in the US 6th August and ComingSoon.net have got the first five minutes of the movie which I’ve embedded below.
Gemma Arterton is featured in Interview Magazine’s Summer’s Leading Ladies!
In The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Gemma plays the kidnapped daughter of a prominent businessman-one who shows herself to be quite a bit tougher than the average poor little rich girl.
Last summer movie: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which came out last month.
How Gemma is spending her summer vacation: Getting ready to star alongside Stephen Dillane in The Master Builder.
With Walt Disney’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time getting released this weekend, a few days ago I got to do a phone interview with the lovely Gemma Arterton. As most of you have seen the trailers and know what the film is about, I’m going to keep this intro brief. But if you’re not familiar, here’s a bunch of clips from the movie with the full synopsis.
During the interview we talked about the challenges of filming in Morocco and what it was like making the movie, and we also talked about her other projects like Tamara Drewe and The Disappearance of Alice Creed. Also, even though Warner Bros. is moving forward with Clash of the Titans 2, she revealed that she’s not yet signed for a sequel so it’s up to her whether or not to come back. Finally, with how much Clash of the Titans changed during filming, I asked what was her reaction to the final product. Hit the jump to read or listen to the interview.
PS: Gemma Arterton herself kindly told us that her real birthdate is actually February 2nd 1986, and not January 12th 1986, like most online sources state.
Gemma Arterton shows off a new side as the title character in the British thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed.
Gemma Arterton is a classically trained actress, a former Bond girl, and a blockbuster starlet, with Clash of the Titans under her belt and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time coming out in late May. Her bold performance in J Blakeson’s 3-person thriller, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, shows a side of her that will surprise and entertain audiences who enjoy a certain type of brutal crime drama. Arterton plays Alice, a young woman who is kidnapped, bound and gagged, and held for ransom by two masked men (Eddie Marsan and Martin Compston) and in an isolated cabin. Naturally, the two men’s seemingly foolproof plans begins to unravel soon after they nab Alice… You’ll have to see it to find out what happens next!
TribecaFilm.com and Arterton chatted via email about the scariest thing that happened while filming, her upcoming film Tamara Drewe, and her ideal directorial dinner date.
Gemma Arterton has admitted that she felt uncomfortable when asked to do a naked scene in her new movie.
However, the 24-year-old actress, who stars in kidnap film The Disappearance of Alice Creed, insists that she didn’t complain about the scene.
She told Sky Showbiz: “It is nerve-wracking. I loved the script and I said yes to it, so I was like, right, this is going to happen.
“I’m going to do it, and both the boys had to do it too, get naked, and I’m going to commit to it and I’m not going to complain. Otherwise I wouldn’t say yes to the job in the first place.”
The star added: “I think it’s like doing a love scene or a kissing scene, any scene that’s weird, you just have to get on with it, it’s part of the job. And if it’s necessary, which it is in this film, it’s weird. We all have to do weird things in our jobs.”
Having landed the lead in this summer’s biggest blockbuster, the 24-year-old talks fame, family and why she’ll always be a Gravesend girl
“I am in a silly mood today,” says Gemma Arterton. As she’s bouncing around a photo studio in a gigantic feather duster of a dress trying to do an impression of Sesame Street’s Big Bird, it’s hard to disagree. So far Arterton’s entertained the room with her Alison Steadman in Abigail’s Party (“I love Demis Roussos”) and an accurately nasal Kenneth Williams: “Oooaaahheeeuuh, heee taaaalked wiiith aaaall theeeese voouuuoowels.” She’s explained her utterly useless test for drunkenness in which she’d ask herself to multiply 12 x 12. “Then after a few years I realised I’d just memorised the answer 144 and I was actually pissed! What an idiot!”
Gemma Arterton is undoubtedly the leading English actress of the moment. In the space of just three years, she’s graduated from St Trinians, Bond-ed with Daniel Craig, and is in two of this year’s biggest blockbusters – Clash of the Titans and Prince of Persia.
But it’s her stunning turn in low-budget British indie flick The Disappearance of Alice Creed that really proves her acting chops, as a kidnap victim in a thriller that has more twists and turns than a helter skelter on a roundabout.
