In her latest screen project, “Funny Woman,” Gemma Arterton (“The King’s Man”) plays a beauty queen turned comedy queen at the height of the Swinging Sixties. Based on Nick Hornby’s book of the same ...

I have never thought much about Gemma Arterton. Now I can think of little else. Prurience? Well, not entirely. The fixation is really on her performance in the astonishing “Funny Woman,” a sort of ...

In Funny Woman, Gemma Arterton and Barbara Parker – the Blackpool beauty queen that Arterton plays – have a similar problem. They are both funnier and smarter than everyone around them. Barbara wants ...

Gemma Arterton knows how tough it is to be both working class and female in the entertainment industry. She recalls how her Kent accent was once derided as “common”, and producers on one of her ...