An article appeared recently on Daily Mail UK, with a really beautiful photoshoot of her. You can read it below.

She’s red-hot after blockbuster roles in Hollywood, but English star Gemma Arterton is more interested in actual acting.

Call her the Not-It Girl.
For the past few years, the English actress Gemma Arterton, 24, has been on a trajectory that Hello! magazine dreams are made of: graduation from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts; roles in a gritty Guy Ritchie movie (Rocknrolla) and a frothy Richard Curtis one (Pirate Radio); starring as Elizabeth Bennet and Tess (of the D’Urbervilles) on British TV. Then (drumroll), the break that every starlet fantasizes about: playing Bond girl Strawberry Fields in Quantum of Solace.
Arterton rolled in flagrante with Daniel Craig, and yes, it was good for her. Hollywood and its megabudgets came calling. In Clash of the Titans, she got both a death and a resurrection scene – setting her up for the sequel, which she’ll film next year. In Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, she intoned mystical prophecies like a pro. It appeared that a new It Girl had arisen.
Except for this small hitch: “I don’t want to be an It Girl,” Arterton said in an interview in Toronto last week. “I didn’t plan to be in those types of movies. I’d always seen myself as a character actress. I felt, God, I’ve got to do something about this, otherwise I’ll forever end up being Princess of Something. Or not forever – you don’t have much shelf life that way.” My guess is that Megan Fox, whom Arterton resembles a little (light eyes, dark hair, full mouth), would concur.

Gemma Arterton: “I’ve always been quite naive and wide-eyed about everything.”

So when the script for her new drama, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, came her way, Arterton jumped. (It opens in select cities starting Friday.) It was the opposite of what she’d been doing. It’s a micro-budget indie from a first-time writer/director, J. Blakeson. Instead of sprawling, it’s claustrophobic: three characters, two sets, one taut set-up. Vic (Eddie Marsan, who played the raging driving instructor in Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky) and Danny (Martin Compston) kidnap rich girl Alice (Arterton) and hold her for ransom in a sound-proofed house. But no one is exactly who they seem, so each plot twist adds a layer of complexity. And instead of playing princess, Alice is stripped naked and slapped around. She screams, she swears, her makeup smears. Her hair’s a mess.

Naturally, Arterton’s handlers tried to talk her out of it. “I had to put my foot down,” she said.

To whom? “To the powers that be,” she answered, laughing. “I’m not saying anything more! But Alice was exactly what I was looking for. I’d felt quite frustrated that I hadn’t actually acted for a while. This reminded me why I’m in it. I’d become quite jaded making those Hollywood movies.”

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I added 6 HQ of Gemma at the event Net-A-Porter ! She was wonderful, enjoy ! (:

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Events from 2010 – Net-A-Porter 10 Birthday Party in London

The movies Tamara Drewe who released in France on July 14th is now number 6 in Box Office France with:

- July 14th from July 20th 2010
– Entries in France: 156 443
- Copy in France: 201
You can see below the official UK Trailer of Tamara Drewe!

Gemma was seen with Stefano this July 3rd ! You can see 4 pictures on the gallery (:

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Candids appearances – 2010 – Out and About with Stefano