Here are the first new photos of Gemma arriving at the UK “Tamara Drewe” premiere today. She honestly could not be more stunning. More photos as we find them!

Gallery Link: Appearances in 2010 > 09.06.10: “Tamara Drewe” UK Premiere

Here’s a brand new “Tamara Drewe” junket interview where Gemma discusses who she would love to play in a biopic – it would be great to see her singing ability in a role like this, so let’s keep our fingers crossed that a rockstar role heads her way soon!

Gemma Arterton has played a sultry Bond Girl and several English roses, but now she has set her sights on an altogether different role.

The actress, who can currently been seen in the title role in the new Stephen Frears film Tamara Drewe, has revealed she would like to play legendary musician Kate Bush.

Gemma is a big fan of the Wuthering Heights singer, but is not quite ready to make a biopic about her yet:

“I just think it’s weird playing someone who’s still alive … I love Kate Bush and I reckon I could do a good Kate Bush impression but she’s still alive – good!”

Her Tamara Drewe co-star Dominic Cooper is unlikely to encounter such stumbling blocks when realising his ambitions.

“I’d love to do Freddie Mercury next – or Michael Hutchence. Such good fun and they are such great characters to do.”

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Gallery Link: Screen Captures > 09.04.10: ITN “Tamara Drewe” Junket

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.’

The ‘Tamara Drewe’ graphic novel is much loved. Did you know it already?
‘No, I hadn’t even heard about it. At the start, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do the film. I really liked the script and I knew that I could do it but I had a little bit of apprehension. I’m not sure why. Then they sent me the comic, and that was the deal-maker. I’ve always loved Thomas Hardy [‘Tamara Drewe’ is loosely based on ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’] and I just fell in love with the comic. Posy is so clever. She did a drawing of me as Tamara. It’s in my bathroom: the front cover of the book but with my face. It’s brilliant.’

Stephen Frears said that he wouldn’t make the film without you. Did he tell you that?
‘It’s funny when he says things like that because he’s so bumbling. I remember when I met Stephen, I had read with his casting director. She’d phoned him to say that I should be Tamara. So I met up with them both and he said: “Oh yes, you’ll do.” He’d never seen me in anything. I was asking if I could please audition – or something! I wanted to make sure he knew he had made the right decision. A lot of us are quite close to our characters.’ Continue…

Yahoo has released the U.S. trailer for “Tamara Drewe” which you can watch below! HD captures are also available in the gallery. The movie will be having its North American premiere in just a few days at TIFF with Gemma expected to attend. Can’t wait!

Gallery Link: Tamara Drewe > Trailer #2 Captures

I haven’t updated in a few days, so I’ll be working in on filling in the gallery. To start us off, here are some stills of “Tamara Drewe” that I hadn’t gotten around to adding. Enjoy!

Gallery Link: Tamara Drewe > Film Stills