Stephen Frears (High Fidelity, The Queen) is the director of "Tamara Drewe," starring Gemma Arterton. The film, which is an adaptation of the famous Tamara Drewe character as well as a graphic novel, is being released October 8 by Sony Pictures Classics.
“The script makes me laugh, it’s very, very funny, and very sexy and a very contemporary, modern film. And doing an adaptation of a comic strip is terribly liberating. You can sort of do anything; it frees you up in the most wonderful way. Comic strips are normally Superman, or about superheroes, but this is a comic strip which is also intelligent and about things you recognise. I’ve never made a film like this; I had to completely rethink how I do things," says Frears.





