Category: Stolen
BBC Breakfast Interview
Damian Lewis was on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday morning to discuss Stolen. According to the interview, the BBC drama will broadcast in July. Damian also mentioned Homeland will be airing after the series Dexter, which has been broadcasting on Sundays in the fall these past few years.
Update: Click here to download the clip from our Media pages.
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TV Appearances > BBC Breakfast (24 May 2011)
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More from ‘Stolen’ BFI Screening
Ian Wylie has posted his BFI report on his Life of Wylie blog. Still no broadcast date but he does say it will be happen in the summer.
A major new drama shot in Manchester reveals the shocking truth about the growing child slavery trade.
Stolen is a hard-hitting 90-minute feature film highlighting the disturbing plight of young children sold to become slaves in Britain.
Due to be screened on BBC1 this summer and given a cinema release, the “heartbreaking” child trafficking story is directed by award-winning Salford-raised Justin Chadwick.
It focuses on Rosemary, a terrorised 11-year-old girl from West Africa who arrives at Manchester Airport with instructions to destroy her passport and identifying papers.
She has orders to contact a city trafficker who sells her on as a house servant and will buy her back when she is older to sell on as a sex worker.
Stolen also tells the stories of a young boy from Ukraine, sold as forced labour to work making sandwiches in the food industry, and a Vietnamese boy imprisoned in a suburban home to look after a cannabis farm.
Band Of Brothers and The Forsyte Saga star Damian Lewis plays Det Insp Anthony Carter, head of a Human Trafficking unit battling the rising tide of child imports.
“It was an extraordinarily strong script and moving story. It’s inconceivable that it’s happening under our noses. And it is,” said Damian, who was shocked by the “overwhelming scale” of the problem.
“The culture of fear is prevalent and that’s what prevents any great progress for the police. They do extraordinary work.”
Read the rest @ Life of Wylie.
Leaving the Royal Haymarket Theatre
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Click here at the gallery for pictures of Damian Lewis leaving the Royal Haymarket Theatre on Wednesday evening.
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Sami posted her full report on the Stolen BFI screening and Q&A giving her impressions on the film (“great script,perfectly directed and wonderful performed”) and on meeting Damian (“quite down to earth”). She also spoke with director Justin Chadwick’s agent who told her the film will be definitely be released on DVD.
BFI Screening
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Journalist Ian Wylie posted a picture of Damian Lewis at Monday’s BFI screening of Stolen and tweeted the following: “Stolen was shocking, moving and brilliant. BBC1 later this year.” Hopefully, he’ll have more for us on his blog. Sami also posted a quick report at the Yahoo! Groups saying “Stolen is so completely different from his other roles. The audience loved it.”
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Added a new wallpaper here at the gallery. Many thanks to fragilidad for sharing!
Damian Lewis attends Stolen Panel and Q&A, May 9, 2011
‘Stolen’ BFI screening
The remaining tickets for the May 9th BFI Southbank screening of Stolen, previously only available to BFI members via ticket
ballot, will be released for sale to the public on Tuesday,
April 12th. Tickets may be purchased through the BFI box office. Click
details. Thanks to Sami for the news!
Update: Tickets can now be booked online here.
Details of the screening from the BFI event page:
TV Preview + Q/A with Damian Lewis: Stolen
Damian Lewis leads the cast in Stolen, a new single film for BBC ONE from the writer of Five Daughters, Stephen Butchard (House of Saddam, Vincent).Lewis plays Detective Inspector Anthony Carter in a fast-paced thriller about human trafficking in Britain today. Carter works in the Human Trafficking Unit, battling to make a difference to the plight of exploited children being smuggled into the UK and, from there, to anywhere and to any fate. If Anthony could save just one of those kids whose faces deck his wall, it would all be worth it. Followed by Q&A with Damian Lewis, Justin Chadwick & Stephen Butchard (work permitting)
May broadcast for ‘Stolen’?
Robin Jarossi of CrimeTimePreview.com tweeted on Friday that there there will be a BFI screening of Stolen & Q&A with Damian Lewis in May. He also thinks BBC1 will broadcast the drama that same month. There are no details of the screening on the BFI site yet. Source.
Update from Robin Jarossi of CrimeTimePreview.com: “tickets aren’t on sale yet, but Stolen will be on Mon 9 May at 8.30pm, and the Q&A will be attended by Damian Lewis, the writer Stephen Butchard and director Justin Chadwick.”
Richard Winters Leadership Project update
- Cast members from Band of Brothers will be be reuniting to
jump out of planes (!) later this year in aid of the Richard Winters
Leadership Project, a campaign to raise money for a monument in
Normandy in honor of the late Major Winters. Over 20 cast members
have committed to the event. To learn more, visit
the Jumping for Heroes blog.
Click here at the Tim Gray Media website
to learn more about the Richard Winters Leadership Project.
- Damian Lewis was interviewed at the BBC TV Centre on Friday, most likley promotional work for the upcoming BBC television film Stolen. Journalist Ian Wylie tweeted about it on his blog. Thanks to Chantal and Ann for the headsup.
- Life: Season 1 wil begin airing weekly on the German
channel Vox beginning February 28th at 10:05pm. Thanks to Manuela for the info.
BBC Press release on ‘Stolen’
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The BBC Press Office
has more on the BBC One film Stolen:
Damian Lewis plays Detective Inspector Anthony Carter in a fast-paced thriller about human trafficking in Britain today, where
children are brought here for a better life but end up working illegally outside the system.
It’s a story of modern child slavery that demonstrates the broadening scope of single dramas on BBC One.
Stolen follows the story of one man, Anthony (Lewis), and three children.
Anthony works in the Human Trafficking Unit, battling to make a difference to the plight of exploited children being smuggled
into the UK and from there, to anywhere and to any fate.
Anthony has a wall of snapshots in his office of unknown children, children without passports, without identity, without
family, without hope, who have been smuggled into this country to be enslaved and exploited: Rosemary 11, is a terrorised young
girl from West Africa, who thought she was coming to England to be educated. She is sold as a house servant; Kim Pak, 15, is a
gardener in a Vietnamese cannabis house, imprisoned in a semi in suburbia; Georgie, 14, from the Ukraine, is put to work in the
food industry, making sandwiches.
If Anthony could save just one of those faces on his wall, it would be worth it.
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According to the online magazine, Blast, Damian Lewis has signed a limited amount of special edition art prints of Brian Fox’s portrait of Major
Richard Winters. The portrait is part of The Major Richard Winters Leadership Project, a campaign to raise money for a monument
in Normandy and a documentary film that will focus on Major Winters’ leadership during WWII. Damian Lewis will narrate the film.
For more information on the The Major Richard Winters Leadership Project, visit the Tim Gray Media website and the Majordickwinters.com
board.
Update on the BBC1’s ‘Stolen’
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There are new details on the upcoming BBC drama Stolen. The 90-minute television film is scheduled to broadcast on BBC One in 2011.
From the Yorkshire Evening Post:
Band of Brothers star Damian Lewis is to appear in a new BBC drama about human trafficking.
The actor will play a police officer tracking down trafficked children in Stolen on BBC1 next year.The film, directed by Justin Chadwick who made The Other Boleyn Girl starring Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson, follows the lives of three modern-day child slaves including a teenager forced to work in a cannabis factory and an 11-year-old girl sold as a house servant.
Executive producer Polly Hill said: “It’s a thriller with an important story to tell and this combination makes for a very exciting drama, and one which we are thrilled has attracted Justin back to television.”
From Digital Spy:
Damian Lewis has signed up to star in a new BBC One thriller.
Stolen focuses on Lewis’s character Detective Inspector Anthony Carter, who works in the human trafficking unit.
The story follows Anthony as he tries to save three children who have been smuggled into the UK.
The show’s executive producer Sita Williams said: “We have wanted to make this film for a very long time, and I’m delighted that the BBC has commissioned it – to bring this subject to a wider audience.”