GEMMA
Arterton stars alongside Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake in Runner
Runner wherein her role as Rebecca Shafran is entangled in the
cutthroat world of online gambling.
Runner
Runner” explores the multi-billion dollar industry of online gambling
where all players are supposed to have their share, in any which way
possible. Affleck takes on the role of gambling kingpin
Ivan Block while Timberlake is Richie Furst, a brilliant Princeton grad
student on his way to finishing his masters. Furst, in
order to further finance his studies takes commissions from online
gambling operators and risks playing online too for additional money.
When Richie betted all of his savings and lost it to Block’s operations, he soon finds out that he’s been tricked. Determined to recollect his tuition money, he heads to Costa Rica to confront Block about his malicious online
practices. Soon thereafter, Richie falls for Block’s
associate –sophisticated COO Rebecca Shafran (Gemma Arterton) – and he
embraces a world that sees all of his fantasies come to life. But
Richie soon learns that Block is wanted for racketeering, extortion and
bribery, and that FBI Special Agent Shavers (Anthony Mackie) is
obsessed with bringing Block and his associates to justice.
The
distaff representative of this world is Rebecca Shafren, Block’s sharp
and powerful COO, whose loyalty to Block is tested when she meets
Richie. English-born Gemma Arterton portrays Rebecca. A
gambling novice, Arterton nevertheless embraced the role. “I really
liked the script, which I thought was clever and witty, and it portrayed
a world I wanted to investigate.”
“I really like Rebecca,” Arterton continues. “She's almost villainous in certain ways, and she’s never predictable. “Runner
Runner” is about power, wealth and greed. I was intrigued by Rebecca’s
desire to live in this world, which is indicative of how many women
believe they must act – in an almost masculine way – in order to
succeed.”
“When
Richie arrives in Costa Rica and meets Rebecca, she is very much the
business person in control; she’s very tough, almost like a femme
fatale,” Arterton continues. “But she also enjoys having fun. She sees
this sexy, young guy and thinks, ‘I'll play around with him for a bit.’ She
finds out that he's actually quite clever and smart, and he's different
from other people she knows and works with. Rebecca has a real dilemma:
she covets the wealth that comes with her position, and yet also
rediscovers her moral bearings through her relationship with Richie. And she begins to change her outlook on Block and her position in his empire.”
Runner Runner opens September 26 in theaters nationwide from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros. Check out the trailer feature of “Runner Runner” @ 20thCenturyFoxPh/YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0-m65tn9Bc&list=PLcZs6n5iZPx_qMltrZ9_-ygryMe9EoX-5.
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