portrait of this blog's author - by Stephen Blackman 2008

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Gemma Arterton

My dear old friend the DOP Stephen Blackman once sat at the same table during some film industry do (an awards ceremony I think?)and sat with a young actor who he said would go far and had just done a pastiche re-run of and was starring in The Belles of St Trinians and Steve said you should keep an eye on her she is going to be a great actor, bright and funny and stunningly beautiful . . . . .


I am doing my best Steve, I'm doing my best!
























An endless list of Buffy’s cinematic crushes:

Gemma Arterton as 'Clara Webb' in Byzantium


personally I thought her performance in Black Narcissus was tour deforce and her best acting yet but she is capable of bright witty humorous stuff too 

Her appearances on the Graham Norton Chat Show have been a delight!!

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