Category: Interviews
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More ‘Homeland’ Interviews
Playing catch-up this Sunday! Excerpts from a few interviews published this week: “I think if I am attracted to those sorts of characters _ intense characters or serious characters _ I think it’s not so much that they’re intense and serious, I think I’m interested in people who are conflicted. That’s the most interesting character…
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Rolling Stone Interview
Homeland star Damian Lewis didn’t want his character to send the wrong message. When the British actor was up for the role of secretly traitorous Nicholas Brody, he told producers: “Look, if you’re asking me to play a U.S. Marine who discovers Islam and then wants to go kill a lot of Americans because of…
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On NPR and CBS This Morning
Related articles: NPR – Damian Lewis On The Conflicts And Complexities Of ‘Homeland’ CBS News – Damian Lewis talks “Homeland” Download Links: NPR’s Weekend Edition (29 September 2012) CBS This Morning (29 September 2012) FYI, also uploaded the Jimmy Fallon interview here.
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More Radio Interviews
Both interviews are worth a listen! He was also on the SiriusXM show Geektime again which replays on Saturday at 2pm, Sunday at 5pm, and Monday at 7am (Eastern) and can be listed to online via SiriusXM’s free trial. Update: Also added the Geektime interview. Download Links: Ron and Fez (27 September 2012) Wake Up…
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The Atlantic Interview: How ‘Homeland’ Finds Humanity in Terrorism
In Homeland’s first season, you had to play the ambiguity of whether or not Brody was a terrorist for most of the season. Now that there’s a definitive answer, do you think about Brody any differently? I think Brody has many different realities. He’s essentially an abuse victim. Abused by a man who he loved,…
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On ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ and SiriusXM Radio on Thursday
Damian Lewis made guest appearances on SiriusXM Radio’s The Covino and Rich Show and on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday. Click below for pictures including hi-res stills from Jimmy Fallon. Update: Click here at the media archive to download the radio interview. Gallery Links: The Covino and Rich Show (27 September 2012) Late…
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The GQ+A: Damian Lewis
Damian Lewis shows up for our meeting at a downtown New York City hotel looking the very opposite of his conservative, buttoned-up character on Showtime’s Homeland: U.S. Marine-turned-terrorist mole Nicholas Brody. The actor is Rat Pack-jaunty in a straw porkpie hat and vintage-y polo shirt in avocado green, and a lot more gregarious than the…
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AP Interview: Damian Lewis scores on ‘Homeland’ as a sympathetic terrorist
It could be, no TV drama has ever given viewers such a damaged pair of protagonists as Brody and Carrie on “Homeland.†Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody was a prisoner of war in Afghanistan who returned home a national hero — and, covertly, a terrorist turncoat (having been turned by Al-Qaida during his 8-year imprisonment).…