Gemma Arterton Brushing Off Critics And Bond Girl Curse

 

 

When Gemma Arterton first heard she had landed the role of Tess of the d’Urbervilles while still filming as Agent Fields in ‘Quantum of Solace’ she literally screamed with joy after all the awful talk of ‘the curse of the Bond girl’. 

She says: 

“I thought, ‘Now I can show everybody I can act.’  Although, in Bond, my character’s cool. She’s not a typical Bond girl: she’s funny, and real, and someone you could know from down the road. I’m quite tough — I have to arrest Bond at one point — but I go to bed with him, of course. So it is a good part.  But more than anything, it’s so that my grandkids can say their gran was a Bond girl. They’ll be, like, ‘Look at her now. You’d never know.’ ”

On how she’s preparing for the autumn of Arterton, when the legend her grandchildren will tell is created?

“By going to Morocco and escaping from it all — I’m going to be in the depths of the souk. In a hut,” she giggles. “All the reviews will come out and I’ll be in a hut. Because I read every review, I can’t help myself. I’ve read so many bad ones now — people saying such horrible things about me as a person.”

Such as?

“Oh my God, I have been told that I’m hideous, not to Bond-girl standard, that the only reason I’m working is because I must be shagging someone in the industry . . . I’ve read that everywhere. At first, I was like, ‘I’m an actress, I went to drama school, I did theatre, I’m serious.’ And then you go, ‘Ah, it’s some fat twat with no life who wrote that, so they can sod off.’ I’ll just do my work, which I seem to be getting, and see what happens.”

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