Category: Interviews
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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).…
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Homeland’s Damian Lewis: My Favorite Mistake
It was 1995, and I was on Broadway playing Laertes in the hit production of Hamlet. Ralph Fiennes, who was playing Hamlet, was at sort of the height of his fame. All of us young British actors lived two lives in New York. Our public face was hardworking British thespians performing Shakespeare on stage by…
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The Times Magazine scans +more
Gallery Links: NewsStand > Vogue (September 2012) NewsStand > British GQ (October 2012) NewsStand > The Times Magazine (22 September 2012) Thanks to RichardArmitageNet.com for The Times scans!
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The Double Life of Damian Lewis, Times/Sunday Times, September 22, 2012
Original article in the Times AND HE DOES THE SCHOOL RUN… From brooding Marine in Homeland to North London family man - Damian Lewis tells Robert Crampton about his double life Good news for Homeland fans. The second season starts soon. Even better, Damian Lewis, when I ask him about the likelihood of a third season, says, “I think this…
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NYTimes Interview: Damian Lewis on ‘Homeland’ and ‘The Forsyte Saga’
On Sunday night at the Emmy Awards, Showtime’s geopolitical thriller “Homeland,†which returns for its second season on Sept. 30, will vie to end the four-year reign of “Mad Men†as television’s top drama. Damian Lewis, who stars as the P.O.W.-turned-plotter-turned-politician Nicholas Brody, was also nominated for best actor in a drama. A decade before…