Actress Gemma Arterton has said that she has posed for her last ‘sexy’ men’s magazine shoot.
The 26-year-old, whose breakthrough role was as a Bond girl in Quantum of Solace, told Vogue magazine that she had mixed feelings about being a sex symbol and would not be posing in her underwear again.
"I did this photoshoot for a men’s magazine a couple of years ago that was quite sexy, I suppose, but I don’t think I’d do anything like that again,” she said. “When it came out, I felt awkward, like I’d done something dirty. My mum was quite upset when she saw it.”
But Arterton does bare her teeth in the Vogue interview when quizzed about her refusal to conform to Hollywood’s size zero world.
She recalled: "There was one reporter on the red carpet who said, 'How does it feel to know the press think you're fat?' And I said, 'How does it feel to know you're ugly and unintelligent?'
"It was the equivalent of me giving him a wallop. I nearly did, actually."
The star of Tamara Drewe and Tess of the D’Urbervilles is currently shooting the Neil Jordan vampire film, Byzantium, in Dublin.
