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Gemma Arterton has revealed that she did not want to play the lead role in her latest film, Tamara Drewe, when she was first offered the part.

The 24-year-old British actress did eventually agree to take the title role in the film, a comedy based on Posy Simmonds’ graphic novel.

Set in the English countryside, it is a comedy about a young newspaper journalist torn between two lovers.

Speaking at the UK premiere of the film in London’s Leicester Square, Gemma said: “I didn’t actually want to play Tamara when I first read it because I didn’t like her.

“She’s a femme fatale but she’s really lost, she’s desperate, she’s a very modern woman. I know a lot of women like Tamara Drewe.

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Stephen Frears new comedy Tamara Drewe will open the third Branchage Jersey film festival from 23 September.

Like last year organisers have put together a varied and challenging programme of films, music and comedy shown in venues around the island.

There will be exclusive screenings and live music performances in some of the island’s quirkiest locations.

Since the first festival in 2008, the events attracted filmmakers and watchers from around the world.

This year’s Branchage Jersey International film festival will be staged from the 23 to the 26 September.

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She’s avoided the Bond girl curse to star in Stephen Frears’s raucous, raunchy new comedy. Cath Clark hears about squeezing into outfits, her new Sloaney look and ‘Midsomer Murders’

Rising star Gemma Arterton left Rada three years ago. Since then, she has played a head girl (‘St Trinian’s’), a Bond girl (‘Quantum of Solace’) and a canny kidnap victim (‘The Disappearance of Alice Creed’) and been in a blockbuster or two (‘Clash of the Titans’, ‘Prince of Persia’). Now she’s the heroine of black comedy ‘Tamara Drewe’, Stephen Frears’s adaptation of Posy Simmonds’s comic strip. Newspaper columnist Tamara is forced back to the village where she grew up. Once an ugly duckling, she returns, post-nose-job, as a smouldering femme fatale, entangling a trio of admirers: indie-drummer, fit farmer and philandering crime novelist.

Tamara makes a memorably slutty entrance back in the village, wearing the shortest denim shorts ever, prompting the catty comment, ‘I hope they don’t give her thrush’. Did you have any say in the shorts?
‘That’s such a Daily Mail reader’s comment isn’t it? Those shorts. Ugh. I really wanted them to be culottes, more flattering on the bottom. But for that joke to work they had to be alarmingly tight and offensive to a woman. I was in Paris about a month ago, where the film is already out. There are these posters of me in those bloody shorts everywhere.’

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The US trailer for Tamara Drewe has been released and can be viewed below, enjoy!

Gemma Arterton has revealed she has kept the prosthetic nose from her new film, Tamara Drewe.

The Prince Of Persia star dons a big fake nose to play the title role in Stephen Frears’ new drama, but rather than saying goodbye to it once filming ended, she gave it the pride of place in her bathroom.

“I actually have that nose in my bathroom, framed – it’s great, I just look at it sometimes,” she said.

In the film, based on Posy Simmonds’ comic strip, Tamara returns to her childhood Dorset village as a smouldering femme fatale with a glamorous job and a new nose after leaving as an awkward teenager.

“The nose started off as just being a big nose and not ridiculously big, and then Stephen thought it would be funny to just keep making it bigger and bigger, so I had this big beak,” Gemma recalled.

“It’s amazing how much it changed my face but some people didn’t know it was me wearing it. I went on set and I had the whole get-up on

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I’ve added captures of Gemma in St Trinian’s 2 to the gallery, enjoy!

Gallery Link: St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold (2009) > DVD Screen Captures: Movie

British actress Gemma Arterton had her closest friends fooled by her facial disguise in new movie Tamara Drewe after donning a “massive” prosthetic nose to portray the title character.

Arterton stars as Drewe, a young newspaper journalist torn between two lovers, in the dark comedy, which is based on the graphic novel by Posy Simmonds.

But the star admits her pals struggled to recognise her in costume – and couldn’t believe it was the former Bond girl under the disguise.

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I got my copy of the Clash of The Titans DVD today, so i’ve added captures of the movie and extras to the gallery, Gemma was simply amazing in this movie and she looks so beautiful, enjoy!

Gallery Link: Clash of The Titans (2010) > DVD Screen Captures: Movie
Gallery Link: Clash of The Titans (2010) > DVD Screen Captures: Menus
Gallery Link: Clash of The Titans (2010) > DVD Screen Captures: Deleted Scenes
Gallery Link: Clash of The Titans (2010) > DVD Screen Captures: The Myth Comes Alive