Gemma Arterton was pictured on a car bonnet being driven at speed and then lying dead on the road on the Byzantium film set in Ireland.

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- Byzantium (2012) > On The Set (Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland) – December 21, 2011

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Horror/fantasy twists on fairy-tale/literary classics are the big trend for 2012, but now it seems one of them won’t be hitting the screen as soon as originally announced.

Fangoria just got the scoop that Paramount has shifted HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS out of its March 2 berth and will instead release the movie next fall on a date to be determined. The Hollywood debut of DEAD SNOW director Tommy Wirkola, the film stars Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton as the grown-up brother and sister who’ve never quite gotten over that childhood gingerbread-house incident, and set out to exterminate witches. Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare, Zoe Bell and Derek Mears co-star.

Gemma has a passionate kiss with a fellow actor on the film set of Byzantium. In the scene, she seems to be working in a fun fair, where she kissed a colleague who is working on a ride nearby. Gemma’s character is called Clara.

GALLERY LINK:
- Byzantium (2012) > On The Set (Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland) – December 17, 2011

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Gemma was spotted on the set of Byzantium in Co. Wicklow, Ireland, last Saturday. She was wearing very tight black leather trousers and was drinking some hot beverage to keep warm.

GALLERY LINK:
- Byzantium (2012) > On The Set (Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland) – December 17, 2011

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Saoirse Ronan gave a very interesting interview to the Irish Independent today and talked to them about the particularities of the Byzantium vampires:

“We’re getting away from the tradition of biting vampires in this film.

“Instead the vampires have talons with which they draw blood.”

On-set photos of the young Irish actress and co-star Caleb Landry Jones can be found online.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Byzantium (2012) > On The Set (Hastings, England) – December 5, 2011
- Byzantium (2012) > On The Set (Hastings, England) – December 6, 2011

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Gemma was spotted with blood around her mouth after straddling another character on the freezing beach in Hastings, East Sussex.

The movie, Byzantium, will be released next year. With Gemma in, it’s bound to be a suck-cess.

GALLERY LINK:
- Byzantium (2012)> On The Set (Hastings, England) – December 7, 2011

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She plays a blood-sucking vampire with an air of mystery around her when she moves to a small seaside town.

But while her character might not be giving too much away, Gemma Arterton’s costume is more than making up for that.

The actress was snapped bursting out of her costume as she filmed scenes for her new film Byzantium in Hastings, south east England.

Gemma, 25, looked freezing as she filmed scenes on the beach for the movie in the very low cut red dress.

At one point she filmed scenes where she covered her mouth and looked distressed as she ran along the shingle.

She also managed to flash rather a bit of leg too after getting into a spot of bother with her microphone’s battery pack, which had been tied around her upper thigh under her dress and out of sight.

She had to call on a member of the crew to lift her billowing full skirt on the dress and help her adjust the battery.

The film is directed by Neil Jordan, and also stars The Lovely Bones actress Saoirse Ronan and X Men: First Class‘s Caleb Landry Jones.

Arterton and Ronan play two young female vampires who move to a small British town and mystery and intrigue immediately surround the pair who could be sisters or mother and daughter.

In the book, the eldest, Claire, takes a job in a pub while the younger girl Eleanor, goes to school and during a truth exercise in her drama class, she confesses that she is over 200 years old and has survived on human blood.

But her classmates think she is crazy and her teacher contacts the school counsellor but she makes one friend in the form of Frank who has been home schooled and is considered an outsider.

It is Jordan’s second venture into the vampire genre, 17 years after the success of his big screen adaptation of the Anne Rice book, Interview With The Vampire.

His new blood-sucking tale is also an adaptation, but this time of a play called A Vampire Story by Moira Buffini, which was commissioned in 2008 by London’s National Theatre.

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- Byzantium (2012)> On The Set (Hastings, England) – December 5, 2011

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- Scans: You (UK) – December 4, 2011

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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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Stars of stage, film and television will be lining up to sprinkle extra stardust on this Sunday’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards — Gemma Arterton, who starred in 007 movie Quantum Of Solace and trod the boards at the Almeida last year in The Master Builder, will present best actor to one of four contenders including Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch, rivals for alternating as the doctor and the monster in Danny Boyle’s National Theatre production of Frankenstein.

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