Gemma Arterton felt that she just 'had to' play a talking head when she read the script for The Voices for the first time.
Gemma Arterton
Arterton is back on the big screen next week as she stars alongside Ryan Reynolds and Anna Kendrick in the Marjane Satrapi directed black comedy.
The actress liked the dark themes and strangeness to the script, and felt that she couldn't miss out on this rather odd role.
Speaking to BBC Radio 1, the actress said: "I'd been doing all of these big Hollywood movies and I hadn't really been feeling them. I like things that are a bit strange, a bit dark, that make you think. I read this script and just loved it.
"My character, I get to play just a talking head in the fridge. And that for me, was something I thought that I've got to do it."
The Voices is the first time that Arterton has worked with Satrapi and Reynolds, and the movie has been playing well on the festival circuit in recent months.
And while The Voices is a dark movie, the actress says that there are a lot of laugh in it as well. She continued: [Alfred] Hitchcock said that when people would laugh at his horrors it was the biggest compliment.This film is a horror in some aspects, because when you're so awkward and you've got too much emotion, often it comes out in laughter."
We haven't seen too much of Arterton on the big screen of late, with the actress focusing on some television and theatre work. However, we are going to be seeing her back later this year with A Hundred Streets, which sees her star alongside Idris Elba.
The Voices is released 20th March.
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