#140 Gemma Arterton: On Escaping And Creating

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🗓️ 23 July 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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My guest today is the actress Gemma Arterton.

We spoke about the new film she's in called The Escape, which she also executive produced. Her breakthrough role was in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace (2008), playing Bond Girl Strawberry Fields, which won her an Empire Award for Best Newcomer. She played the lead role in the film Their Finest (2017). She was the title star of the film The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009). She is known for her roles in the fantasy films Clash of the Titans (2010), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), Byzantium (2013), and as the character Gretel in Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013). She played Joan in Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan at Donmar Warehouse, December 2016.

The Escape is an intimate portrait of a married woman who seemingly has it all. Married young, she

has all the trappings of a successful life: a house, a husband, children and a nice lifestyle. But she is unhappy and yearns for more, something that she is unable to put her finger on.

We discuss escapism, acting, social media, relationships, improvising on set and why the topics in this film are close to her heart.

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0:56.7	Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete. Today's guest is
1:01.7	Jemmer Artiston. I was very lucky to have a few minutes of
1:06.5	Jemma's time on her press day. She did some radio interviews. I think she did some
1:10.8	TV stuff and then I nabbed some time for the
1:14.0	podcast which was very exciting. We recorded it at the Langam Hotel and we had a
1:20.9	really good chat. The interview is primarily about the film that Jemma is releasing at the moment. It's out on the 3rd of August in the UK and Ireland. It's called The Escape. It's directed by Dominic Savage and it's an amazing film. It's really hard to describe actually just because it isn't, doesn't really sit in kind of one genre of film but it's it's kind of
1:46.2	like a romantic thriller comedy it's amazing it's sort of well it's one of my
1:50.4	favorite types of films actually how it's a slice of life you know not a lot
1:55.3	happens but a lot happens if you know what I mean arterton plays Tara a stay-at-home
2:00.5	mother of two living in Kent and her existence is kind of
2:04.9	soulless even though on paper she kind of has everything that she's supposed
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