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M. February 07, 2011
By BRUCE KIRKLAND, QMI AGENCY
English actress Gemma Arterton is a charming beauty with brains and character. She also knows about self-image and the “ugly duckling” aspect of her title character in the film Tamara Drewe.
Arterton, 25, was born with 12 fingers and a crumpled ear. Both situations were corrected by surgery as a child. So she is now a proponent of the credo: Beauty is found in imperfections.
“It’s funny, I have worked on what are extreme Hollywood movies that are ultra-glamourous and ultra-commercial. Prince of Persia especially, where it was all about everything being ‘just so’. … I don’t believe in beauty being ‘just so’. Imperfection is beauty.”