The British actress has hit the headlines for her curvy frame in the past, with some people criticising her for putting on weight.

The 26-year-old refuses to bow to pressure though and has no intention of dropping dress sizes just to please others. She thinks it’s unfair that people feel they can comment on her shape, especially as occasionally they are very rude.

Being compared to dowdy 50-year-old Scottish singer Susan was a step too far for Gemma.

“There was one reporter on the red carpet who said, ‘How does it feel to know the press thinks you’re fat?’ And I said, ‘How does it feel to know you are ugly and unintelligent?’ It was the equivalent of me giving him a wallop. I nearly did actually,” she told the March edition of UK Vogue.

“Someone else told me I looked like Susan Boyle. At first, you get really upset about it. And then you just get really bored with it. I wish I didn’t give a sh*t four years ago. It’s not my job to be Miss Perfect. I’m not a model, I’m an actor.”

Gemma wasn’t always one to turn the other cheek. As a young girl she remembers being furious when a man made sexual overtures to her while she was out with friends.

“I was quite strong-willed and not very good with boys. I was in this sh*t club in Gravesend [in the UK] and this boy pinched my a**e,” she recalled. “I turned around a decked him.

“He just didn’t know what hit him. Obviously, um, I did.”

The actress is now happily settled with her husband Stefano Catelli, who she married in 2010.

The couple spend a lot of time apart due to Gemma’s job but make sure they don’t go more than three weeks without seeing each other.

He is from Italy and comes from a Catholic background and Gemma gets on well with his family.

“[His mother is] like the anti-Italian mum – very chilled out,” she laughed.

“We decided not to have a religious ceremony, and we were worried that it might upset Stefano’s family – but they were so happy for us, because they could see we really love each other.”

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Gemma, we hope you spend a perfect day with your loved ones and that they spoil you, because you deserve it!! And we hope that the year ahead brings you continued happiness and success in all that you choose to do. Thank you for sharing your talents with us and proving time and time again that you are an incomparable actress and woman.

It’s hard to imagine the next year could be any better for Gemma than this past year has been, but she has some very exciting sounding projects in the works and the future certainly looks bright!

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Thanks to my dear friend Nicole.

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Benedict Cumberbatch, Gemma Arterton and Jonny Lee Miller are featured in the February 2012 issue of Vogue UK. They were photographed at London Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

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The actress stars as Clara, a vampire who has to protect herself and her daughter (played by Saoirse Ronan) from those seeking to plunge a stake through their hearts.

‘She’s brittle and she’s a fighter,’ said Gemma of the role she plays in Byzantium, which is directed by Neil Jordan.

The film — set in both the 18th century and the modern day — is not all glossy surface nonsense like the Twilight pictures. For starters, it has a compelling storyline and much better actors, including Sam Riley, Daniel Mays, Jonny Lee Miller and Tom Hollander.

Byzantium is based on A Vampire Story, a play Moira Buffini wrote for the National Theatre. Buffini then worked with Jordan and producers Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen to develop the stage drama into a movie.

‘There’s blood and vampires and all of that, but we focus on the mother-daughter relationship,’ Gemma assured me.

Although Gemma said she did an exaggerated version of her Kent-Thames estuary accent in the remakes of the St. Trinian’s films, she told me she gets to do ‘my accent for once in Byzantium — she’s from the hood’. And, as she pointed out, Hastings — where the film is set — isn’t far from her native Kent.

Gemma’s also in kick-ass form in another movie, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. ‘It’s about these damaged kids really, and now we’re all grown up,’ she told me.

Jeremy Renner, currently to be seen in Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, plays Hansel to Gemma’s Gretel.

‘Gretel’s quite wild. She’s super cool, and violent,’ Gemma added, describing the action as Tarantino-esque. ‘She has a crossbow, she headbutts people, folk get decapitated, noses get bitten off. It’s so ridiculous that it’s funny, but I wouldn’t mess with her.’

The film’s due out early next year. Gemma has a change of pace in another film, Song For Marion, a gentle drama with a heart in which she plays a teacher and choir-mistress opposite Terence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave and Christopher Eccleston.

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Gemma Arterton was pictured smoking a cigarette while covered in blood during a break from filming on the set of the vampire movie Byzantium in the Ballymun Flats complex in Dublin, Ireland.

After spending the afternoon pretending to be a vampire and getting covered in fake blood, no wonder Gemma Arterton looks in need of a rest.

Filming her new movie Byzantium in Dublin yesterday, the 25-year-old stepped out of character – but not costume – for a few minutes to enjoy a well-earned cigarette break.

Covering up in a dressing gown, the former Bond girl sipped on a cup of coffee as she puffed away.

Arterton had been filming scenes for the upcoming thriller Byzantium in a housing estate in Ballymun, renowned for being an impoverished area of Dublin in the 1970s.

Also on location was her co-star Saoirse Ronan, who also plays a vampire in the film.

Byzantium is adapted from Moira Buffini’s play A Vampire Story, which was commissioned in 2008 by London’s National Theatre.

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 play, the eldest, Clara, 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.

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.

Arterton started filming Byzantium in Sussex last month.

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The move comes on the heels of the successful opening of Paramount’s micro-budgeted horror pic The Devil Inside and Christmas tentpole Mission: Impossible–Ghost Protocol, which has already earned $458.1 million worldwide. The two films almost guarantee that the studio will have a good fiscal quarter (and Devil Inside–scoring the best opening ever for early January–proves the corridor can be lucrative).

There are two other reasons for the move, according to an insider. The 3D materials for Hansel and Gretel are only now coming in, and Paramount wants time to market the 3D aspect, particularly overseas.

Third, Renner — who stars opposite Tom Cruise in Ghost Protocol — has two other 2012 films, The Avengers, which comes out in early May, and The Bourne Legacy, which hits theaters in early August. The insider said pushing back Hansel and Gretel also allows the movie to benefit from the exposure Renner earns from those two films.

Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Prods. is producing Hansel and Gretel, which picks up the Brothers Grimm fairy tale 15 years after Hansel and Gretel found the gingerbread house. They’re now bounty hunters. Tommy Wirkola is directing.

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We’re more used to seeing her oozing glamour on the red carpet in haute couture and full make-up.

But actress and Bond girl Gemma Arterton could have been mistaken for just another student as she roamed the UCD campus yesterday.

Make-up-free and wearing a casual grey cardigan and practical, puffa-style jacket, teamed with leggings and biker boots, the 25-year-old British star was dressed for the chilly January weather.

But the overall effect meant she was virtually unrecognisable from her role as a glamorous brunette in the James Bond movie ‘Quantum Of Solace‘.

Ms Arterton was even spotted having a sneaky cigarette on the steps of her trailer during breaks from shooting director Neil Jordan’s latest offering, the vampire thriller ‘Byzantium‘.

A heavily bearded Brendan Gleeson was also spotted on set, laden down with shopping bags and sporting an equally casual look.

The star of ‘The Guard‘, whose much anticipated directorial debut — an adaptation of Flann O’Brien’s ‘At Swim Two Birds‘ is also due out this year — may have been seeking some advice from the veteran director.

Jordan directed Gleeson in a number of movies, most notably ‘Breakfast On Pluto‘.

The stars were photographed during a short break on set at UCD.

Filming for the movie — which also stars Irish starlet Saoirse Ronan as a 200-year-old, piano-playing vampire — began in the UK in December before moving to Ireland.

‘Quantum of Solace‘ star Ms Arterton plays Ronan’s mother in a story which sees her turn her daughter into a vampire before going on a killing spree in a seaside town. The pair also pose as sisters.

‘Byzantium‘ is an adaptation of ‘The Vampire Stories‘, a play written by Moira Buffini, and is a big shift from Jordan’s 2009 lyrical mermaid romance ‘Ondine‘, which starred Colin Farrell and the future mother of his child, Alicja Bachleda.

The film has received funding from the Irish Film Board and from the UK Film Council and has an overall budget of just €8m.

It also stars Caleb Landry Jones from ‘X-Men‘ in the male lead role and boasts a mainly Irish crew.

Shooting for the Irish scenes began in Bray, Co Wicklow last month before moving on to UCD. It will also take place in a number of locations around Dublin.

- Edel O’Connell

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Gemma Arterton was pictured on the set of Neil Jordan’s new vampire movie Byzantium in the UCD campus in Dublin, Ireland.

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Gemma is also featured alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in the February 2012 issue of Vogue UK. I’ll be adding a scan as soon as I can find a copy of the magazine or as soon as someone is kind enough to send me a contribution.

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I love this photoshoot and I can’t wait for new outtakes!

Happy New Year!!!

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Gemma Arterton and Sam Riley film a walking scene on the Byzantium film set in County Wicklow, Ireland. It was the last day of filming before returning in January.

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Gemma Arterton was pictured being beaten up by two men (including co-star Sam Riley), hand cuffed to railings and then threatened with a sword during a night time set shooting of Byzantium in Bray, Co. Wicklow.

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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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