LA Times Magazine has a great new interview and photoshoot with Gemma! Check out the outtakes in the gallery and read on for the interview!

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In Quantum of Solace, Gemma Arterton is a redheaded stylista whose curves prove irresistible to James Bond. As immortal beauty Io in Clash of the Titans, she is ogled so feverishly by Sam Worthington’s Perseus she orders him to “calm your storm.” And in the title role in Tamara Drewe, which hits theaters October 8, she sports a pair of shorts so tiny they could be a napkin.

But Arterton is no preen queen. Yes, the 24-year-old beauty may have beguiled Jake Gyllenhaal in the summer popcorn flick Prince of Persia, but this graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art loathes Hollywood glamour. In fact, to hear her describe the parts she finds most desirable, the uglier the better.

Take Drewe, the British comedy based on Posy Simmonds’ long-running comic-strip serial. The lovely Tamara owes her beauty to plastic surgery, and Arterton delights in discussing the massive prosthetic nose she wore in the film’s flashbacks.

She once volunteered to a reporter that she was born with six fingers on each hand, despite the fact that the condition was corrected at birth—and that little detail has now become a nagging press staple.

Arterton is not afraid to take risks…and they tend to pay off. Thanks in part to her tough role as a kidnap victim in the 2009 thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed and her nuanced turn in Drewe, the world now considers her a serious actor.

Well, a serious actor who also happens to look fabulous in short shorts.

Strong female roles aren’t exactly growing on palm trees around here. How’d you find Tamara Drewe?
I was requested to meet with [director] Stephen Frears, and that’s something you can’t refuse, really. To be honest, I wasn’t too sure I could play the character—I wasn’t sure if I liked her. Which is a ridiculous thing to say, because we can’t always play someone we like. But then I read the novel, and that sold it to me. Then Stephen told me, “I won’t do it unless you do it,” and that was very humbling, because at the time he hadn’t seen me in anything.

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