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TIME OUT LONDON – Gemma Arterton bounds down a hotel corridor, fresh but flustered after lunch. ‘I got lipstick on my dress!’ she exclaims. Mindful of scheduled photoshoots, she playfully adopts poses that conceal the offending marks – and then starts our interview feeling bad about returning a slightly soiled dress to the designer. This is Arterton all over: spirited, funny, professional, thoughtful. She tells me that she was always the performer: both she and her sister Hannah have been acting since they were toddlers in Gravesend. ‘There are videos my mum filmed when we were about four and two years old,’ she says. ‘We were acting out Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. I’m like, “DO IT LIKE THIS! YOU HAVE TO DO IT LIKE THIS!” then she does it and I push her out of the way… God, it’s so bad.’ She gives a guilty giggle. ‘I was like, “Me! Look at me!”’
The world soon looked. After training at Rada, the actress landed a plum role in 2007’s ‘St Trinian’s’ before playing Strawberry Fields in ‘The Quantum of Solace’. Then came a couple of surprising picks, with grimy thriller ‘The Disappearance of Alice Creed’ and countryside romp ‘Tamara Drewe’, before she really hit her stride with ‘Byzantium’ and 2016’s ‘The Girl with All the Gifts’. Her latest, ‘The Escape’, is a largely improvised British drama about a woman who has a breakdown and heads to Paris, leaving her husband (Dominic Cooper) and two children behind. ‘It’s a taboo subject,’ says Arterton. ‘You’ve got to be the perfect wife and the perfect mother and so many marriages break down and the husband leaves. When a woman does it, it’s seen as an awful thing: “What’s wrong with her?”’
Arterton is heartbreaking as the unhappy suburban wife, but filming wasn’t without its challenges. ‘We used real children that live in the house we were shooting in – they weren’t actors. They didn’t really understand what was happening, and they actually didn’t like me,’ she says, and this time she’s not laughing. ‘I found that really difficult. I’d walk into the room and the kids would be like, “Oh God, not her!”’
– Photoshoots & Portraits > Time Out London (2017)
WOMAN’S HOUR Gemma Arterton has starred in films such as St Trinians, Quantum of Solace, Tamara Drewe, Gemma Bovary and Their Finest. She’s also appeared in theatre productions of Saint Joan, Nell Gwyn and the musical Made in Dagenham. She joins Jenni to discuss her new film The Escape, where she plays a stay at home mother – who seemingly has it all – but walks out on her marriage and children.
For the entire interview you should visit che BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour webiste. In our gallery you can find a couple of photos of Gemma taken during the interview, enjoy!
THE TELEGRAPH – Gemma Arterton and Dominic Savage are having their photographs taken in a London hotel. The star of the stage musical Made in Dagenham, in a blue dress, exudes confidence and energy; the writer and director of such brilliant TV dramas as Freefall (2009) and Dive (2010), in necktie and designer spectacles, appears a little shy. Having your picture taken with Arterton, he tells me afterwards, is like trying to play piano alongside a concert pianist. It makes you self-conscious.
Arterton and Savage first met 10 years ago, to talk about making a film that never happened. Arterton, then a rising star after being cast as a Bond girl in Quantum of Solace (2008), asked Savage if he would send her his films. He obliged. To that section on her shelf, she can now add The Escape, a remarkable new film that they have created together.
Arterton, twice nominated for an Olivier award, gives what might just be the performance of her career as Tara, a wife and mother-of-two who succumbs to depression after she realises she wants more from life. Savage’s camera dwells on Arterton’s face as she withdraws deep inside herself, tears forming while she submits wordlessly to a “quickie” with husband Mark (Dominic Cooper, with whom she last shared a screen in the 2010 film, Tamara Drewe, directed by Stephen Frears).
It’s a beautiful, internalised performance that, in part, grew out of Savage’s belief in improvisation: “The whole idea of a director is as controlling and in charge and all that s—,” he says. “And I don’t work that way at all”. Before filming began, the two of them talked in depth about their own lives, a process that required an unusual degree of courage. “Actors of a certain level are very untrusting,” Arterton says. “They’re nervous about opening up to you, in case it gets leaked out.”
– Photoshoots & Portraits > The Telegraph (2018)
– Movies & Television > The Escape (2017) > Production Stills
Back on July 20 Gemma was guest at the BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans Breakfast Show, where she talked about her new movie The Escape.
Gemma wore an Emilia Wickstead Resort 2019 turquoise mini dress featuring long ruched, cuffed sleeves a belted waist and a pleated skirt. Several photos of her outside the BBC Radio 2 Studios have now been added to the gallery, and below you can also listen to her interview during the show. Enjoy!
– Talk and Radio Shows > 2018 07 20: BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans Breakfast Show
– Talk and Radio Shows > 2018 07 20: BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans Breakfast Show – Outside
Back on July 19, Gemma attended a special screening for her new movie The Escape, held at the The Curzon Bloomsbury in London (England).
Gemma was wearing a colour-block Galvan Resort 2019 dress with bronze clutch and toffee-hued sandals (I, personally, didn’t like this outfit much). Several photos from the screening have now been added to the gallery, sorry for the delay and enjoy!
– Public Events > Events from 2018 > July 19: The Escape Screening in London
Last night (April 19) Gemma attended the French premiere for her movie The Escape – ‘Une Femme Heureuse’, held at the Cinema MK2 Bibliotheque in Paris.
Several photos from the event have now been added to the gallery, be sure to check them out! :)
– Public Events > Events from 2018 > April 19: The Escape French Premiere
Last Saturday night (March 03) Gemma attended the Glasgow Film Festival for the UK premiere of her new movie The Escape.
She looked really great with a red jumpsuit and a black coat to keep her warm and to cover her up from the low temperature! Few photos from the event have been now added to the gallery, be sure to check them out!
– Public Events > Events from 2018 > March 03: Glasgow Film Festival – The Escape Premiere [+17]
Below you can watch a couple of interviews taken during the festival!
