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Double oh! Daniel Craig's steamy kiss with new Bond girl Gemma Arterton
Last updated at 20:14pm on 30.06.08
When she won the chance to play the latest Bond girl, at least Gemma Arterton didn't have to worry too much about costume fittings.
The 22-year-old actress wears nothing more than a linen sheet as 007 actor Daniel Craig kisses her bare back in the forthcoming Quantum of Solace. The film also gives Craig's female fans another chance to admire his muscular torso.
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Miss Arterton plays gorgeous MI6 operative-Agent Fields less than a year after graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
The daughter of a welder and a cleaner from Gravesend in Kent, she has already had several movie roles including the head girl in the remake of St Trinian's. Her latest character is said to be a tribute to the classic 1960s Bond girls.
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Quantum of Solace will open in British cinemas on October 31.
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Reader views (2)
There's no contest Linda - Daniel every time!
Beckham is just a boy compared to Mr Craig!
- Scott, London
Jeez!
Here's another one you wouldn't kick out of bed for eating biscuits!
What a dilemma! Becks in those boxers or Daniel in - anything!
- Linda B, glasgow, scotland
