Her hour-glass figure is the envy of women across the UK.
But Gemma Arterton has revealed Hollywood producers flew a personal trainer out to Morocco to ensure she lost weight – and had her filmed in the gym to prove she was exercising.
Incredibly, the size 10 actress said an ‘obese’ producer even told her she couldn’t eat dried apricots, before adding she had been ordered to lose weight ‘on a few films.’
Awful: Gemma Arterton has revealed Hollywood producers flew a personal trainer out to Morocco to ensure she lost weight – and had her filmed in the gym to prove she was exercising
She said: ‘There was one film that I was on and we were out in Morocco and a couple of weeks went past and they literally were like “We need a personal trainer – stat.”
‘And they flew someone out overnight that gave up their whole life to be with me and be my personal trainer. You know when it’s like – “Is it that f****** bad that I need an emergency… [it was as if they were] like on speed dial – “Get that trainer out here now.”
‘It was so traumatic at the time.’
Gemma, 31, the daughter of a cleaner and a welder from Gravesend, said the producers of the film – which she didn’t name – were so desperate for her to shift the pounds they would get her coach to film her in the gym to prove she was working out.
Extreme measures: Gemma, 31, the daughter of a cleaner and a welder from Gravesend, said the producers of the film – which she didn’t name – were so desperate for her to shift the pounds they would get her coach to film her in the gym to prove she was working out
Speaking on The Guilty Feminist podcast, she added: ‘They’d measure me and they’d call up the personal trainer at like nine and night going: “Is she in the gym? And if she isn’t, why isn’t she in the gym?”
‘And then they’d get me in the gym and film me in the gym and they’d have to know that I was there.’
She added: ‘And there was one day when I went to get some snacks, they have like snacks on set, and I went to get some apricots, some dried apricots. And the man went, this big, fat, obese producer went: “I hope you’re not going to eat that.”’
Speaking out: Gemma, who has been working since she left RADA in 2007, has previously spoken about how the producers of blockbuster Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time had asked told her to lose weight for her part
Gemma, who has been working since she left RADA in 2007, has previously spoken about how the producers of blockbuster Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time had asked told her to lose weight for her part.
Speaking about the movie, which had a budget of around £150million, she said: ‘When I got that part they really tried to transform me. They sent me to a personal trainer, wanted to get my teeth done, hair extensions, make me look like somebody else. And that’s fine. I had the tan, I had the hair, I went to the gym.’
She told GQ in 2010: ‘Unless you’re really famous and successful, then they’re going to bully you into going to the gym. It’s a side of the industry that I find uncomfortable.’
She told GQ in 2010: ‘Unless you’re really famous and successful, then they’re going to bully you into going to the gym. It’s a side of the industry that I find uncomfortable.’