“A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, A Four-Part Drama Series Starring Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody, Murder on the Orient Express, The Politician) that Tellos The Tel. Her Point of View, Premiered in The Us On Streaming Service Britbox This Week and Will Hit UK”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Produced by Itv Studios’ Silverprint Pictures and Based On Carol Ann Lee’s Biography A Fine Day for Hanging: The Real Ruth Ellis Storythe show also features toby jones as elis’ lawyer, laurie davidson as the lover shot and kildled by ellis, Mark Stanley, Joe Armstrong, Artthur Darvil, Juliet Strate Bessie Carter. The Script Was Written by Kelly Jones, With Angie Daniell Production The Series and Lee Haven Jones Directing All Four Episodes.
SilverPrint Creative Director Kate Bartlett and Development Director Antonia Gordon Are Execular Producers of the Series. And they came to development the project quite unEXPECTEDLY.
“We Knew She Was The Last One to be Hanged. I One of Those Things We Knew Growing Up, “Bartlett Tells Thr. “And there was the film Dance with a stranger (Starring Miranda Richardson and Rupert Everett, in 1985). But I Got An Email Out of the Blue From One of Her Grandsons, Saying That His Grandmother’s Story Had Never Been Fully. IT WAS ATTALLY UNSOLICITED EMAIL. SO WE MET UP, AND HE TALKED TO US About the Incredibly Researched, Fantastic Book by Carol Ann Lee, A Fine Day for A Hanging: The Real Ruth Ellis StoryWHICH IS ACTUALLY BEING RENAMED A Cruel Love in it republication. We Read It And Auctioned It Because It Is An Extraordinary Book that Tells the Full Story and the Hidden History of the Events Leading Up to the Shooting and Her Shocking One-Day Trial. ”
Gordon Says that Ellis’ Story Leading Up to Her Hanging in 1955 Brings Together Different Topics and Genres. “Above All, We Wanted to Tell Her Story,“ She Tells Thr. “That goes Through female empwerment, Through Court, Through the Crime. Ruth Was Quite A Trailblazer. She Worked from the Age of 14. She Ran this Very Successful Club. She was a sungle mother. Those Were All Things That Were Much More Diflicult Back Then. She was ahead of her time. ”
The Writer and Producers Made a Key Choice About the Series’ Structure. “We didn’t want to tell a linear of the story of a to B. Also, it’s a Powerful, Emotional Story, and We Didn’t Want to Make It Grim and Gritty,“ Bartlett Explains. “SO we used the structure of the present-day story and the past story. In one, you get to see the vibrant, Gorgeous Ruth as A Successful Woman. She is this charismatic, incredible woman who fell in love with david Blakely, and it was a passionate and obSESSIVE RELATIONSIP. But It was also toxic and absyive. SO it was was Important to Tell the Full Story. ”
Gordon Recalls that “A Lot of Younger Members of the Crew Who Didn’T Know The Story and Didn’t See the Film,” and they Were in for a surprise. “What Shocked People Was Hows How Recent It Was that People Were Hanged in the UK, and Ruth’s Hanging in 1955 That Brough About About of The Law In 1957. Diminished Resistance. Had that been available to her, she May Well Have Her Charge Reduched to Manslaughter Racher than Murder. And then in ’65 the law was changed to get Rid of Capital Punishment in the UK SO, there was a Lot of Talk AUND that. ”
Also Notable Is That in the Series, Nigel Havers Plays His Own Grandfather, Cecil Haavers, The Judge Whomented Ruth Ellis to Deth. “Nigel, who is a British Legend, Played His Grandfather. We WEEN’T SURE WHETHER HE MIGHT DO IT, AND HE DID, ”SAYS GORDON.
“The Court Episode, Who’s Episode Two, Is Quite Shocking For The Fact that Eve Single Word Spoken in the Court Is Verbatim,“ Bartlett Adds. “We Were not Allowed to Change A Single Word, SO Everging That Is Said Is From The Transcripts. It’s Really Shocking to See How Ruth Was Treated and ALSO HOW SHE SOORT OF CLAMMED UP AND DIDNN’T HELP HERSELF. SO, Nigel Says that his Grandfather Was Desperately TRYING TO See If There Was A Way for Her To Open Up A Bit. ”
The Executive Producers Conclude by Singing the Committee of Everyone Who Worked on the Series. “We Were Really Lucky to Get Such An Incredible Cast and Crew,“ Says Gordon. And Bartlett Concludes: “It’s Been A Passion Piece for All of US and Everyone Involved.”