That’s always been my “in”, more than a character’s backstory. I’ve always approached roles from a physicality angle. But then you go to Rada and it’s all about the text and Shakespeare. We had a teacher with a Complicité background and everything was about telling stories through your body.
I just haven’t had the opportunity, but physical theatre is where I started out. How come your comic gifts have been hidden? Photograph: Ben Blackhall/©Sky Uk Limited It just felt right – even if reading the novel, you wouldn’t necessarily think of me playing it.Īs Barbara Parker in Funny Woman. It was serendipitous that it came back to me. Obviously they’d already been sold – hey, it’s Nick Hornby! But a few years later, the production company came to me and said that Morwenna Banks had written a pilot episode, would I do it? I was working on a film at the time and remember reading the script out loud in my trailer, laughing away. I read the book when it came out in 2014, loved it and tried to buy the rights. Arterton lives in East Sussex with her husband, the actor Rory Keenan, and their baby son.Īdapting Nick Hornby’s Funny Girl for TV turned into quite a saga, didn’t it? She now produces and plays the lead role in Funny Woman, the TV adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel Funny Girl, about a beauty queen from Blackpool who moves to swinging 60s London to break into the comedy scene. On TV, she has starred in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Black Narcissus stage highlights include Made in Dagenham, Nell Gwynn and Saint Joan. The following year, she landed the coveted role of Strawberry Fields in the Bond film Quantum of Solace. Aged 21, she made her professional stage debut at Shakespeare’s Globe and her film debut in St Trinian’s. G emma Arterton, 37, was born in Gravesend and trained at Rada.
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