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Run: Channel 4’s Dark New Drama Hits Our Screens

Posted on July 17, 2013 by BeverleyButterfly

Tonight’s pilot episode of Channel 4’s dark new drama, Run, focused on one of four key characters, Carol Wheeler, played by Broadchurch star Olivia Colman, who is emotionally torn as to what do when she finds out her two sons have beaten a man to death – tell the police or protect her children?

Carol is a single mum who lives on an estate with her two unemployed sons, Dean and Terry. She scrapes together a living working in a factory whilst supplying illegal immigrant, Ying with electronics stolen from the factory in order to buy a flat-screen TV, to keep her Dean and Terry off the streets and out of trouble.

However, whilst physically assaulting his girlfriend on the estate one night, Dean noticed a passerby who was watching the violent events unfold and consequently beat him to death, whilst his brother, Terry, watched, leading to a full-scale police investigation.

At first, Carol’s two sons denied the murder, but as Carol grew increasingly suspicious and started to find clues, such as the victims blood on Dean’s hoody’s sleeve, she started to realise the truth. After finding her son’s girlfriend making out with another boy, Carol threatened to reveal she was cheating unless she told her what happened with her sons.

At first Carol protected her children by disposing of the blood-stained hoody but as time went by, she had second thoughts as the final scene saw Terry and Dean being arrested during a flat-raid.

Best Moment: Picking a ‘best moment’ from Run proves extremely difficult as the intense drama had us hooked from start to finish, But one scene in particular that we found particularly emotional was the final scene, in which Carol broke down in tears as police raided her flat and arrested her sons, as she sat crying at the kitchen table.

Random Moment: A particularly poignant yet endearing moment was when Carol hit the pub karaoke with her friend for drinks,and fake Gucci purse in hand. The pair sang True Colours together which was perhaps one of the only times in the episode where we saw Carol with a smile on her face.

Verdict: Undeniably one of the most compelling pilot episodes of any drama we’ve recently watched. The acting was faultless and the storyline is enthralling. This is a brutal yet realistic look into life on an estate and has Bafta written all over it

Source: entertainmentwise.com – Run channel $’s new drama has BAFTA written all over it

Olivia Colman on Run: ‘Carol is in for a shock!’

Posted on July 17, 2013 by BeverleyButterfly

Olivia Colman discusses her new role as Carol, an inner-city mum of two violent teens in C4’s tough new four-part drama, Run…

What was it about playing Carol that appealed to you?
“I loved playing Carol as she puzzling and not your normal female heroine. She’s a strong woman trying to keep her family together on her own. She’s got aspirations for her sons Terry and Dean – but she probably didn’t have great role models herself. It’s easy to see how she’s ended up robbing phones to get by. She’s not getting help from any quarter and has been forced to do things I don’t think she wants to. She’s had to be tough thanks to the boys’ violent dad.”

What sets Run apart from other city-based dramas?
“While it is an urban story, there are difficulties everywhere. We just show them with concrete, rather than trees. If you turn the corner in any city, it’s not lovely cafes you see but a life that’s harder. Also, scripts this well written are like hens’ teeth. It’s beautifully written and I knew I’d be heartbroken if I didn’t manage to do a good job of it. Run is one of the things I’m most proud of doing.”

Carol faces a heartbreaking dilemma when sons Terry and Dean violently kill a Polish man. Did you enjoy working with Billy and JJ Pamphilon, who play the boys?
“They’re fantastic. Billy and JJ are actually brothers in real life! Billy has ‘mum’ tattooed on his arm, which is great. We use a photo of them when they were little boys in the characters’ flat. Like Carol, I think my boys are sweethearts! Although Carol is in for a shock.”

You’re very much in the spotlight at the moment with the success of ITV’s Broadchurch and winning BAFTAs for Twenty Twelve and Accused. Do you worry about the rise of your profile?
“It’s quite scary and it does feel different – and not necessarily in a good way. I haven’t quite figured it out yet but a lot of actors I admire manage to stay pretty private, so that’s a skill I’ll have to learn. Obviously you have to do press for jobs, particularly if you’re proud of them. I’m worried people will think: ‘She must be inundated with work, we won’t send her our script’!”

Did you have any idea how big Broadchurch would become?
“I’ve done lots of work before that I loved and hoped people would like but nothing has ever gone as nuts as Broadchurch! I was pleased people liked it but for a while I had to stop getting the bus and trains because I was always being asked ‘who did it?’ I’m really looking forward to working on the second series and can’t wait until the script, which will probably take about a year, is written.”

Does this mean you’re too big and famous for a reappearance as Sophie in cult classic Peep Show?
“God no! I couldn’t do the last one because I was working on Broadchurch but everyone on Peep Show knows I’d happily turn up. They’re my boys!”

You’re known now for both your intense roles and your comedy. How do you feel about these two very different disciplines?
“I feel eternally honoured I’m allowed to do both now. You need someone to take a punt on you and let you do both. I love doing each desperately and am just happy to be working as an actor as I don’t know how to do anything else!”

Source: whatsontv.co.uk – Olivia Colman on Run Carol is in for a shock

Olivia Colman stars in Run, another marvellously miserable drama

Posted on June 21, 2013 by BeverleyButterfly

What would any of us do faced with the impossible choice of protecting our own children or doing the right thing?

In Run, a grim Channel 4 drama, Broadchurch star Olivia Colman plays tough single mum Carol from Brixton just trying to keep her family together, in a place where low-level crime and even dealing drugs is just a way to survive.

But when teenage sons, Dean and Terry, commit a random murder, she has to make a life-changing decision.

Will she turn in her boys or will she tell them to Run?

This 4-part drama is so grim it makes Broadchurch look like a particularly funny episode of Miranda.

That’s said, Olivia – as usual – is simply marvellous wallowing in her misery.

Run will be be aired on Channel 4 early next month, then released on DVD on 22 July, price £15.99

Source:bestdaily.co.uk – Olivia Colman stars in Run another marvellously miserable drama

Olivia in new show Run

Posted on June 27, 2012 by BeverleyButterfly

OCO Katie Leung and Olivia Colman are set to lead the cast of the upcoming Channel 4 drama Run.

The gritty four-part drama presents the stories of four unconnected people whose lives intertwine in a story of modern-day survival.

Each episode, directed by BAFTA-nominated Skins and Being Human helmer Chris Martin, will focus on a different character.

Best known for her role as Cho Chang in Harry Potter, Leung will play an illegal Chinese immigrant hoping to make a life for herself in the UK.

Colman, who recently received a BAFTA nomination for her work in Twenty Twelve, will play a struggling single parent who gets mixed up in the world of crime.

Run is currently filming in and around London.

Source: digitalspy.co.uk – Olivia Colman and Potter star Katie Leung for new channel 4 show Run