10 minutes with Gemma Arterton — The face of G Star Raw on toughening up for a fairy tale.

GALLERY LINK:
- Scans: ES Magazine (UK) – September 16, 2011, thanks to Lorna

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The Art of Gemma — I’ve finally scanned and added to our gallery an Australian magazine that I’ve had for awhile.

GALLERY LINK:
- Scans: OK!USA (Australia) – May 3, 2010

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With special thanks to Elmira.

Jake & Gemma cuteness!

GALLERY LINK:
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) > Related Clippings > MK Boulevard (Russia) – May 24-30, 2010

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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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Tonight’s update are new shots and outtakes from a photoshoot that has been around quite a few times since the promotion of Prince of Persia. You can find many photos from this session under different names in our gallery: NewMan (2010), IGN (2010), Stylist (2010) and Kino Park (Russia) May/June 2010. Click here for the behind-the-scenes captures. The reason why they’re in different albums is because not all photos were released at once, so we simply added them as they became available to us. Enjoy!

GALLERY LINK:
- Photoshoots > Disney (2010)

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Many thanks to Lorna.

GALLERY LINK:
- Scans: insideKENT (UK) – January/February 2011

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Many thanks to Lorna.

GALLERY LINK:
- Prince of Persia (2010): Sky Magazine – Sky Movies (UK) – March/April 2011

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GALLERY LINK:
- Scans: Kino Park (Russia) May/June 2010, thanks to Elmira

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Don’t forget to vote for Gemma Arterton at http://bafta.orange.co.uk/rising-star-award/gemma-arterton/!

It’s just three years since she was at drama school and most people are dying to find out is she’s changed since we first saw her as a sweet natured girl in the St Trinian’s films.

Also, how has her style changed? Find out all this in Very’s Five Minute Interview with Gemma below:

QS: Has your style has changed as your profile has grown?

GEMMA: “I think it’s more grown up now. I’m always aware of keeping the British edge that I’m very proud of, and of course I have more access to incredible designers now. My style is ever evolving, it’s all very exciting!”

QS: As an actress you get to dress up and play a part – which has been your favourite look on set?

GEMMA: The costumes in Prince of Persia were exquisite, designed by Penny Rose who designed all of the costumes for Pirates of the Caribbean. The attention to detail was outstanding and I was really made to feel like a princess on set. I loved how every outfit and look I had helped to tell the story. I also loved the harem trousers that I had and secretly wished I could have taken them home! I always end up dressing a bit like my character when I’m filming and have been wearing harem trousers with pride ever since.

QS:What are your favourite items in your wardrobe?

GEMMA: “I have an incredible jumpsuit that I have worn over and over again. I’m sentimental when it comes to clothes. There are some items that I will never get rid of as I wore them at poignant times in my life. I even have a red and white dress that my mum made for me when I was a baby stashed in there somewhere; it’s one of my most treasured possessions.”

QS: What are you style essentials – what couldn’t you live without?

“I couldn’t live without jackets. I have so many I’ve lost count. They instantly tie together an outfit for me.”

QS: Is there a celebrity whose style do you admire?

GEMMA: “I’ve always loved Bianca Jagger circa the Studio 54 days. She was so utterly chic and cool.”

Talking of chic and cool, Gemma looked the part at a G-Star Raw party in London to celebrate her new modelling job. You’d have known she was involved in a special way without it looking as she’d tried to hard.

The BAFTA award winners will be announced on 13 February – good luck, Gemma!

Source

Better late than never.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Magazine Scans: NewMan (Malaysia) – May 2010
- Photoshoots: NewMan (2010)

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I’ve recently managed to buy and scan a copy of the rather rare BAFTA Academy Magazine issue from December 2009 featuring Gemma Arterton on the cover.

GALLERY LINK:
- Scans from 2009: BAFTA Academy Magazine (UK) – December 2009

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Huge thanks to Ruth for sharing (yet again) her personal pictures with us and our sincere apologies for not uploading them sooner!

GALLERY LINK:
- Personal Pictures: With Fans

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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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Thanks to Elmira for the scans!

GALLERY LINKS:
- Photoshoots: Vogue UK (2010)
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010): Related Clippings > Acción (Spain) – October 2010
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010): Related Clippings > Screen DVD (Germany) – October 2010

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Thanks to the lovely and talented Nicole, we have plenty of new LJ icons! Enjoy!

She’s also one of the maintainers of the Gemma Arterton 20in20 – LJ Community, a place where you can share your love for Gemma and for creating LJ icons.

Thanks to Stef for the screencaps.

GALLERY LINK:
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010) – DVD Screencaptures

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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.
“It’s Victorian as well,” she says, letting me inspect her engagement ring in return. Star of this year’s Hollywood blockbusters Prince of Persia and Clash of the Titans, Arterton has recently married her Italian beau. At pains to keep details of the small Andalusian wedding and her new husband under wraps, she admits she’s learning Italian, or trying to.
“Oh, I just know stupid words, made-up words.” Curious, I ask her to expand. “Stefano [her husband] made up this word, ‘limanene,’ which is like little hands slapping you. Like this,” she leans across the table to demonstrate, quickly fluttering her hand in front of my face. “So, when someone’s been an idiot, you go, ‘li-ma-ne-ne,’” she says laughing, shaping the vowels Italian-style. A confident delivery and Queen’s English pronunciation betray theatre training at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and combined with her delicate looks, it’s of little surprise Arterton’s first big break was playing a British Bond girl in 2008’s Quantum of Solace.
Relaxed and in a good mood—“Look at the size of that coffee, it’s like a bowl!”—Arterton is keen to talk about her new movie The Disappearance of Alice Creed, in which she plays a kidnap victim. A small-budget British indie thriller, Alice Creed premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year to great acclaim, which was followed by packed out screenings with standing ovations, four-star reviews in the British press, and a Raindance nomination in the 2009 British Independent Film Awards.
“I’ve only really enjoyed two film jobs I’ve been on. Alice Creed was one,” she starts, adding that the other is UK indie Tamara Drewe, based on Posy Simmonds’ comic strip that ran serially in The Guardian. “Alice Creed was very gruelling for me. The first day of filming was me being kidnapped and kicked and my clothes cut off and I thought, ‘This is so unglamorous,’” she says. “But to be honest with you, anything beats coming off Prince of Persia.” Ah, that’s interesting, the lead in the Disney video game-inspired production wasn’t all that?
“Oh, it was so opposite to what I ever intended,” she says, to my surprise. “It was big, it was brash, it was Hollywood. I needed to shake all that off and get down and dirty and real with a script like Alice Creed that was tight and where everything was fully formed and was all about the acting. I needed to challenge myself. I’d started thinking, ‘Can I actually act?’” There is no question that Arterton can act; she pulls off the role of the kidnapped and abused Alice Creed with a simple, compelling authenticity. Did she get what she needed from the part?
“Honestly, on that job… I don’t think I’ve ever had an experience where I felt like I wasn’t sure if I was acting or not. In certain scenes, I was really quite petrified and in a state of real anxiety,” she says, pausing to sip her coffee. “You’re like, ‘Now have I gone beyond knowing what I’m doing?’ And then, when I watched the final thing, I was kind of dreading it, you know: the nudity, the violence…” She trails off. I step in and ask if there are rules for actresses and nudity.
“I thought there were rules, but there are no rules,” she says with conviction. “When I accepted Alice Creed my American agent said, ‘I don’t know…’ And I thought Disney wouldn’t want me to do it. I thought they’d have quite a lot of control over my career, but they didn’t at all, which was brilliant.”
So, she’s not too fussed about nudity, almost a given considering Alice Creed? “Well, it’s a load of bollocks really. I think it’s ridiculous that someone will get paid eighty grand, as one actress did, just to have a flash of boob. I think it’s gratuitous.” She warms to the theme, discussing her love for French cinema where sex and nudity aren’t frowned upon. “They embrace it. If Juliette Binoche gets her boobs out, nobody is going to write about it in The Sun. Whereas, if I get my boobs out, it’s like, ‘Gemma Arterton gets her boobs out in a film.’”
And here she speaks from experience. “There was one movie I don’t speak about very often where I was really taken advantage of: Three and Out. It was my first nudie role, and I had a sex scene. It ended up being published in The Daily Mirror. They couldn’t have got hold of the pictures through anyone but the film company,” she says, her brown eyes looking pained before adding a qualifying, “I think. To sell the film, you know.”
I am beginning to understand why she enjoyed her experience on Alice Creed so much, where she worked with a small team and a cast of just three. “On Alice Creed, I knew and trusted everyone implicitly. It was just like a play,” she says. “It was the first movie I’d done where I was valued as a woman in the film. I wasn’t that young girl. I was just as important as the other actors. Just as respected.” Presumably, this is in contrast to the blockbusters she’s been in, which she says are also less respectful of the scripts. “On one movie I signed up for, the script was actually quite good,” she says. “And then it got absolutely pissed on because they wanted to people-please. They’d show a rough cut to a test audience, who’d say, ‘But I want so-and-so to get together.’ You know, stuff like that, and before you know it, you’re in a film you’d never have signed up to do in the first place.”
I raise my eyebrows in question. Most actresses this early in their career wouldn’t have a bad word to say about such high profile movies, but then maybe she’s not like most actresses? “I don’t want to be a celebrity or a famous actress,” she says, taking a mouthful of porridge while I try to work out if she really means it. “I’ve been really worried about this year,” she says. “Everyone’s been saying, ‘Everything’s going to change.’ I had Sam Worthington [Avatar and Clash of the Titans] going, ‘Your life’s going to change.’ I don’t want my life to change. I have an amazing life.” She goes on to tell me that she never reads her own press anymore, having suffered negative comments about her apparently over-curvy figure. “You go out to a premiere, but the next day you get the criticism. I’ve been called fat or whatever. Most of the time it’s not true what’s written. It’s so petty and horrid and it really hurts you. I say that I’m like five months clean, five months clean of Googling myself.”
It’s starting to piece together, that despite her movie star looks, Arterton is a serious actress who, weighing up the highs and lows of celebrity—“It’s a choice. For me it’s not about being famous, it’s about being recognized for your talent”—is drawing the conclusion that it’s not for her. And while undoubtedly benefiting from the blockbuster exposure, she has neatly sidestepped into more soul-nurturing projects like a forthcoming theatre role in Ibsen’s The Master Builder in London’s West End, Alice Creed, and Tamara Drewe.
She is contracted for Clash of the Titans 2, naturally. But still, “Doing Alice Creed and Tamara Drewe has been life-changing. Of course, the risk is you won’t be in any more Hollywood movies because you’re too risky, which I don’t mind. Like, I really would not mind, it wouldn’t bother me at all. I would rather be doing small roles in theatre.” But rather than small roles, Gemma is being handed the kind of scripts most actresses could only dream of. “When I meet people, it isn’t for the sexy girl in shorts role anymore. All of a sudden I’m meeting people to play Courtney Love and Marianne Faithfull, or to play a fucked-up heroin addict. And then it’s not about your body, it’s about your ability.”
Suddenly our time is nearly up. The very able Arterton leans over to check the time on my mobile phone. She has a New York flight. So, when will we be seeing her next on screen? “I never like to talk about these things before they come to fruition,” she says. “But I’ve been offered two roles in amazing movies. Cool, strong females leads. One is a Michael Winterbottom film and the other is a Corsican saga by Luca Guadagnino. They’re not big in Hollywood, but they’re big to me,” she says with a smile. And that’s all that seems to genuinely matter to this amazing, and beautiful, actress. Buona fortuna, Gemma Arterton.

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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GALLERY LINKS:
- Scans: Closer (France) – September 4 to 10, 2010
- Scans: News of the World (UK) – September 26, 2010
- Scans: Prox (Spain) – September 2010
- Events: Mulberry’s Nick Knight Party

Big thanks to Lorna and Elmira for the scans!

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