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Cast Highlights: Saoirse Ronan Caleb Landry Jones Sam Riley Jonny Lee Miller Daniel Mays

Character: Clara
Production Status: Filming
Release Date: 2012 (UK)
Director: Neil Jordan
Writers: Moira Buffini
Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
MPAA Rating: n/a

Plot Outline:
Adapted by Moira Buffini from her own play, the film will see Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as a mother and daughter who just so happen to be vampires. They arrive at a small British seaside town, where Ronan joins the local school and stands up in class to announce that she's a member of the fang club. Naturally, her peers think she's joking, but soon learn the truth.

She'll form a closer relationship with Jones' teenager, a lad dying of leukaemia and confronting his mortality, which in turn causes Ronan to ponder her immortality.

Gemma's Role:
Gemma Arterton plays Clara, the vampire mother of Saoirse Ronan's character.

"There's blood and vampires and all of that, but we focus on the mother-daughter relationship," Gemma assured the Daily Mail.

"She's brittle and she's a fighter," said the actress of the role she plays in the film.

"We're getting away from the tradition of biting vampires in this film. Instead the vampires have talons with which they draw blood," added Saoirse Ronan.

But Clara's not just a vampire. Clara's also a prostitute. "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."

Gemma gets to do "my accent for once in Byzantium -- she's from the hood." Hastings -- where the film is set -- isn't far from her native Kent.

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