Robson Green said: "I think it's an important groundbreaking piece because it deals with things that are not spoken about. And it's written by a woman."
"Their son (Corey J. Smith) witnesses this act, so thinks his father has been battering his mother. We then start telling the reason for that particular moment. You will side with the woman - then, suddenly, I hope your allegiances change. Then at the end you don't side with anybody, but empathize with the boy, who's actually on the receiving end of this mental misunderstanding."
"There's nothing amazing about the guy - you don't see why he would be involved in anything like that. He's a hard-working man at a shipyard who loves his wife, who dotes on his son and who loves his home."
Beaten is "incredibly intelligent, but very simple to tell," reveals Robson.
"It's about how, sometimes, people get involved in relationships that are incredibly unhealthy - how we convince ourselves that everything will be fine, when actually it's not normal."
"I'm really excited by it because when we developed the script, we thought, 'if we get this right, it will blow people's minds. This will really change the perception of what we hear about wife-beating.'"
"Their son (Corey J. Smith) witnesses this act, so thinks his father has been battering his mother. We then start telling the reason for that particular moment. You will side with the woman - then, suddenly, I hope your allegiances change. Then at the end you don't side with anybody, but empathize with the boy, who's actually on the receiving end of this mental misunderstanding."
"There's nothing amazing about the guy - you don't see why he would be involved in anything like that. He's a hard-working man at a shipyard who loves his wife, who dotes on his son and who loves his home."
Beaten is "incredibly intelligent, but very simple to tell," reveals Robson.
"It's about how, sometimes, people get involved in relationships that are incredibly unhealthy - how we convince ourselves that everything will be fine, when actually it's not normal."
"I'm really excited by it because when we developed the script, we thought, 'if we get this right, it will blow people's minds. This will really change the perception of what we hear about wife-beating.'"
Beaten (2005) is a television drama written by Alison Hume, directed by Jon East, and starring Robson Green, Saira Todd and Corey J. Smith. A hard-working man at a shipyard loves his wife, dotes on his son and loves his home, and violence erupts in a Newcastle home as the whole family fights to stop their world from crumbling. Issues of power, control and jealousy are explored.
At the heart of this love story is Michael (Robson Green), a docker. A hard man in a hard world, Michael has a secret. Haunted by a tormented past and childhood betrayal, Michael goes on the run with Jamie (Corey J. Smith), his young son, and his wife, Stephanie (Saira Todd), finds her own painful childhood history repeating itself.
Beaten (2005) is the first of two collaborations between both writer Alison Hume, director Jon East and
Robson Green. The second project was television six-part miniseries Rocket Man (2005). Hume was the co-creator/writer, and East directed Green in the first two episodes: Fly Me to the Moon (2005) and Bodywork (2005).