Tanya Gold Tanya Gold

Acting up | 20 April 2017

As her latest film, Their Finest, opens nationwide, Arterton explains why she’s abandoning Hollywood and becoming a producer

issue 22 April 2017

Gemma Arterton’s new film, Their Finest, is about second world war propaganda. Her character, who is bookish and sensitive, is allowed — because of war — to write film scripts. She discovers two girls — two ordinary, pale, unhappy girls — who steal their father’s boat and sail to Dunkirk for the rescue.

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