I know not many people here have probably seen or heard of this, and I hadn't either, I still haven't started to watch it, but I just read an article in todays paper that sounded OK so I thought I would give it a try. I can see it is available via streaming website I use and it maybe on torrents if anyone is interested. Here's some of the article from the paper about it -
You come to work and get stabbed, punched — Danielle Cormack on the toll of even filming prison life
DANIELLE Cormack can fray your nerves.
So completely does she immerse herself in the tortured world of Bea Smith, the character she plays in prison drama Wentworth, that Cormack leaves you shaken, and stirred.
First there was her portrayal of Bea’s suffering at the hands of an abusive husband, then the horror of being marooned in the spartan confines of prison.
What really tested her mettle as a performer was expressing the molten anger that overcame Bea when she discovered inmate Jacs Holt (Kris McQuade) had orchestrated the murder of her daughter, Debbie.
In a harrowing conclusion to season one, Jacs’ son, Brayden, emptied a drug-filled syringe into Debbie’s arm, then casually walked from her bedroom — leaving her lifeless body sprawled across her bed.
Bea, pen in hand, responded with a frenzied attack on Jacs, killing her with a stab wound to the neck.
Season two of Wentworth has opened three months after Holt’s death. Bea’s been in a zombie-like haze, a picture of aching vulnerability because of heavy medication.
When forced to go cold turkey by new governor Joan “The Freak” Ferguson (Pamela Rabe), Bea, jolted by the realisation her conversations with her daughter are nothing but hallucinations, rediscovers a purpose in life. Her motivation is to cut the evil Brayden down.
In a Switched On interview in the bowels of the fictional Wentworth prison, it’s clear Cormack has deep, intense feelings about her work. But at times, perhaps through tiredness, she finds it tricky to elucidate them.
Cormack, star of Underbelly: Razor and a mother of two from New Zealand, says, “This job is challenging for all of us.
“It really takes it out of you and patience can be frayed. I’m tired even talking to you about it,” she adds with a wry smile.
“You come to work and you get stabbed, punched. But we are creating a show. It’s important to remember there are people who are going through this kind of thing in real life as we are in here shooting it.
“It’s the cast who are always mentioned (applauded) for their work, but there are all these people, such as Craig Barden (cinematography) and our directors and crew, who make the show great and build our world (prison).”
Issues of women and violence and the circumstances that lead them to incarceration weigh heavily on Cormack.
It’s a reason she decided, in her research for the role, to visit the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in Victoria. She hoped meeting inmates would keep her performance “rooted in truth”.
“I got a real sense of their world,” Cormack says. “There is a camaraderie in there and for some women this is a safe haven for them. It gave me an understanding of how women come to be in institutions.”
Cormack, 43, has traversed an impressive arc in the characters she’s played in a career that took off in New Zealand in 1985.
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http://www.news.com.au/entertainmen...ming-prison-life/story-e6frfmyi-1226933294022
