GALLERY LINKS:
- Prince of Persia (2009): ET Online - Set Visit - November 13, 2008
- Modeling: Avon - Bond Girl 007 Making Of
- Candids: November 12, 2008

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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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 moves Spanish lover, 19, into her London flat – and hires a language teacher

They say the language of love is universal, but that hasn’t stopped Bond girl Gemma Arterton running into a few communication problems with her new Spanish boyfriend.

The couple have just moved in together – but are having such problems understanding each other that 22-year-old Gemma has had to hire a translator.

The actress met 19-year-old stuntman Eduardo Munoz on the Moroccan set of the £50million blockbuster Prince Of Persia last month, where he was employed to teach her how to ride horses.

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Filming has started on the movie version of video game The Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time.

The fantasy adventure film is set in the sixth century and follows Prince Dastan and Princess Tamina as they try to prevent a villainous nobleman from getting hold of the Sands Of Time - a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.

Brokeback Mountain star Jake Gyllenhaal plays the title role and rising star Gemma Arterton, who can be seen in the latest TV adaptation of Tess Of The D’Urbervilles and in the forthcoming Bond film, plays the feisty princess.

The film also stars Sir Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina and Toby Kebbell.

The production is a joint venture between Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films, and is being filmed in Morocco and London.

It is scheduled to be released in 2010.

Source: Metro.co.uk

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

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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Gemma and Spanish stuntman Eduardo Munoz, her new boyfriend. The couple met on the set of Prince of Persia, which is filming in Morocco. They have been seen daily walking around hand in hand and kissing in front of everyone on the set.The couple spent a weekend at the costal town of Essouria where they went horse riding at sun rise.

The blonde girl is Gemma’s younger sister Hannah Arterton.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Prince of Persia (2009) : Horse riding with Eduardo Munoz and hanging out with sister Hannah - August 2008

It was Bond girl Gemma Arterton who was both shaken and stirred when the wind got up as she was filming a crucial scene in Panama for the new 007 film Quantum Of Solace.

For Gemma, who plays alluring undercover operative Agent Fields, revealed rather more than she bargained for as she and 007 left a hotel in a hurry on the trail of a man Bond is chasing.

‘I had to wear a mac and boots with nothing underneath,’ she said, ‘and I had to be really careful because the mac kept blowing open.’

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A year ago she was fresh out of college and up to her ears in debt.

Today Gemma Arterton is a rising star of everything from Bond films to bodice-rippers.

But lean times are not hard to forget and Gemma, whose mum brought her up alone while working as a cleaner, has an eye for a bargain at Primark.

Last night four million viewers watched Gemma, 22, playing Lizzie Bennet in ITV’s comedy period piece Lost in Austen. And she will soon take the starring role in Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, the BBC’s new costume drama.

But it’s not just prime-time TV that Gemma is fast conquering.

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Gemma Arterton, 007’s love interest in new Bond movie Quantum Of Solace, has become shaken and stirred by a tall, dark, handsome action man in real life.

The 22-year-old actress has begun a relationship with Spanish stuntman Eduardo Munoz, 19, on the set of her latest film, Prince Of Persia, in Morocco.

He was hired to teach her to ride a horse.

A source said: ‘Gemma has made no secret of her romance on the set. She and Eduardo are always kissing and cuddling. They are inseparable.’

Source: Daily Mail

“Oh my God, I have been told that I’m hideous, not to Bond-girl standard, that the only reason I’m working is because I must be shagging someone in the industry . . . I’ve read that everywhere. At first, I was like, ‘I’m an actress, I went to drama school, I did theatre, I’m serious.’ And then you go, ‘Ah, it’s some fat t*** with no life who wrote that, so they can sod off.’ I’ll just do my work, which I seem to be getting, and see what happens.”

Arterton is starring in two of the autumn’s biggest bonnet dramas, but gives them a modern edge

Gemma Arterton owns this autumn. First up, she’s playing the lead in BBC1’s mega-budget Hardy adaptation, Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Next, she’s slinking her way through Quantum of Solace as the cool MI6 handler Agent Fields (just don’t mention that she was taller than Daniel Craig when she wore heels). Then she’s punky and sharp-tongued in ITV’s twisted bonnet comedy, Lost in Austen, in which Arterton as Elizabeth Bennet swaps lives with a modern girl played by Jemima Rooper.

With roles in St Trinian’s and Stephen Poliakoff’s Capturing Mary, and a healthy stage career — all by the age of only 22 — you would expect a ripple from the regulars at the Hampstead pub when she glides through the crowd with a mischievous grin on her face. But nobody so much as blinks. And, to be fair, I’m not entirely sure this actually is the woman I’m supposed to meet. In Bond she’s a redhead with milk-white skin; in St Trinian’s she sports a jet-black bob; and as Tess she looks like the healthy daughter of a country farmer. But this woman is dark and sultry, with a pout that would flatten Rachel Weisz.

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Gemma’s new mini-series, Lost in Austen, kicks off on The UK’s ITV on September 3, 2008. Be sure to check out the official site. It will be released on DVD September 29.

According to sources, Tess of the D’Urbervilles will start Sunday, September 14. It will be released on DVD October 27.

By the way, we will probably wait for the DVD releases before adding screencaptures or videos on the site. None of us will be in the UK during the releases so to make things less complicated, I will bring you the high quality coverage once the DVDs are available.

By the way, RocknRolla will be released September 5 (UK), October 3 (USA, limited) and October 31 (wide).

I think it is fair to say that September 2008 will be the month of the Gemma.

Very disappointing news!

Walt Disney Pictures has moved the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time out of its June 19, 2009 release date spot (which would have been a week before Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is opening) and has pushed it back almost a year to May 28, 2010, which is the week after Shrek Goes Fourth is scheduled and a week before Marvel Studios’ Thor.

With Memorial Day being observed on May 31, 2010, the movie would have a four day opening, unless it debuts earlier in the week.

The Mike Newell-directed video game adaptation stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Alfred Molina and Ben Kingsley. Gyllenhaal will play Dastan, a young prince in sixth century Persia who must join forces with Tamina (Arterton), a feisty and exotic princess, to prevent a villainous nobleman from possessing the Sands of Time, a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.

Source: ComingSoon

Total Film interviews Gemma about her good and busy year, her thoughts about London, Prince of Persia, Quantum of Solace and fame.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Magazine Scans: Total Film (UK) - August 2008, thanks to Lorna

GALLERY LINKS:
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2009): Rehearsing - July 3, 2008
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2009): MrPaparazzi.com Clip - July 3, 2008

Check out this new set of images featuring Gemma and Jake Gyllenhaal practising horseback riding in England for their upcoming roles in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2009).

GALLERY LINKS:
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2009): Rehearsing - July 3, 2008

I think it is fair to say that Gemma Arterton is fast becoming the hardest working film actress in the biz at the moment!

As you may notice the updated sidebar as well as the filmography, Gemma has yet another new film in the works! That is Richard Curtis’s The Boat That Rocked, which is currently being filmed. The cast includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy and Kenneth Branagh so Gemma’s indeed in a very good company here! Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time is in pre-production and will begin this month.

Alfred Molina will join Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton and Ben Kingsley in Disney’s Prince of Persia, the Mike Newell-directed adaptation of the Ubisoft fantasy actioner. Jerry Bruckheimer is producing.

Molina will play Sheik Amar, who becomes a mentor to the prince.

Shooting is slated to begin in July in the UK and Morocco.

Molina is starring in Courtroom K, a Fox pilot written by Paul Attanasio and directed by Joe and Anthony Russo. He also completed Overture’s Humble Park and stars in An Education.

Source: Variety