Born in a north-eastern mining town, Green, 35, entered the shipyards after leaving school. Starting off as a welder, he became a shipwright and ended his years there as a draughtsman. Then his burning ambition to be an actor finally paid off when he was rocketed from the rank of amateur to his first shot at fame in Casualty and then Soldier Soldier.
He became the first actor to be signed exclusively to ITV when he signed a #1.75m deal. Then a second deal, signed for #2m, followed in June last year. He owns the company, Coastal Productions, that makes his TV dramas.
Though Green bosses the company, he does not make a single business deal without first consulting his executive producer, Sandra Jobling, who quit her job as his bank manager to become his main fixer. It was Jobling who was brokering the deal with Bruce Willis's Cheyenne Productions, which has bought the American rights to Touching Evil, and which wants to sign up Robson for work in Hollywood.
His last TV outing, the legal drama Close and True, was shot in and around Newcastle, which is also the setting for Take Me. During filming, the set designers had changed an old Ever Ready battery factory into a TV studio.
This thrilled Green, seeing all this activity going on. There was another scene of him filmed right on top of the roof of the shipyard which his character is closing down. He says: ''I stood on the roof of the office I worked in. It was interesting, you know; in reality, this is the place that you used to work at and you are now playing a character who is closing it down. '"
'But it was not romantic working there as a young man. There is nothing romantic about a shipyard at all. Even the launch, the work the men used to put in. They are not nice places to work. I never rejoiced getting up and cycling to Wallsend Shipyard. Not one hour. I was always a clock-watcher.''
But nostalgia is not his bag. In Newcastle they wanted him to run as mayor. He declined even though his mum thought it was the greatest thing. They also asked him to invest in Newcastle United.
''I said I think they have got enough. But I do enjoy bringing investment back to Newcastle. It's emotionally very rewarding to bring work back there. It's that socialist ideal - creating employment, investing in people.
They associate socialism with poverty. They associate it with struggle. Bollocks! People will say, 'You can afford to say that'. Sure, what is wrong with that ? I have worked for it. I love champagne. What is wrong with it. It is gorgeous! I'll drink bucket-loads of it. It's much better than beer.''
It'll be interesting to see whether he'll be cracking open the bubbly after the ratings for Take Me. Though ITV insists he is still one of its more popular acting stars, he has not been immune to the critical batterings that have come along recently, particularly for Blind Ambition, in which he played an athlete competing in the paralympics in Australia but then finds out his wife was unfaithful with his trainer.
''A slump in ratings has hit a couple of the shows,'' he agrees. ''People mention the Midas touch - is he losing it ? I do the best I can. I do feel I was guilty of a couple of programmes that stiffed. I guess that goes with the territory. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.''
Those doubting the man's continued appeal as a heart-throb need only check out the various Robson internet web sites. Devotion is merely a few mouse-clicks away. Yet Robson himself says he cannot comprehend the sex symbol tag.
He says: ''I am surprised that Vanya is interested. She is so glamorous and beautiful. I think, what the hell are you doing with me ? I don't see it.'' What the fans will make of his latest screen incarnation is anyone's guess.
With Take Me, he is much less than the clean-cut hero they have come to expect. He explains: ''The experience of Jack Chambers is proof that in any relationship chaos is just around the corner. I was interested in that notion. It deals with the controversial topic of wife-swapping. Probably the most destructive thing that two people can do to one another. "
"There is this notion of trying to bring excitement back into a relationship; that you can have other sexual experiences and everything is normal. ''That is a very corrosive experience to both partners. Normal affairs, adultery, however it is found out, I think is more accepted. Swinging is just its own separate culture. I think all the characters are in turmoil, everyone is lost.''
Time was when he could have said the same about himself. Now everything in his personal life is great. He mentions that his dad bought young Taylor a baby-sized Newcastle United kit. ''Like grandfather, like father, like son,'' Robson chuckles.