Category: Interviews

  • Eye on Emmy: Homeland’s Damian Lewis Talks About Playing No Ordinary Anti-Hero

      Just as Nicholas Brody received a hero’s welcome upon being rescued from captivity in Afghanistan, Damian Lewis of Showtime’s Homeland has been met with plaudits for his riveting portrayal of the conflicted Marine sergeant, husband, father and… would-be terrorist. Lewis – going for his first Emmy nomination this year, having previously been nominated for…

  • MR PORTER interview and photoshoot!

    Check out this gorgeous new photoshoot accompanying the interview posted at the men’s fashion website MR PORTER. Gallery Link: Photoshoots > Session 052 Mr Damian Lewis needs no convincing that Homeland is a huge hit, perhaps even a career high. Not because of the critical praise or the awards, or even his Best Actor nomination…

  • ‘Tavis Smiley’ Appearance

    Damian Lewis made an appearance on the PBS late-night talk show Tavis Smiley on Friday, May 4th. You can download the interview in mp4 format here from our media archive. The interview should be posted on the Tavis Smiley site by Monday. Update: Added screen captures from the interview to the gallery. Gallery Link: TV…

  • Evening Standard Interview

      The star of Sunday night’s most addictive drama, talks to Craig McLean about playing a Muslim, living between LA and London and why he couldn’t say no to Homeland There are A-listers, and there are stars so powerful they trump even the alphabet. Damian Lewis is familiar with plenty of the former. The Londoner…

  • More from ‘An Evening with Homeland’

    Make sure to check out the links below for more pictures added throughout the day from the ‘An Evening with Homeland’ panel discussion held on Wednesday. Gallery Links: Public Appearances > 2012 > 2012/03/21 ‘An Evening with Homeland’ – Arrivals Public Appearances > 2012 > 2012/03/21 ‘An Evening with Homeland’ – Panel Click below for…

  • Scotsman.com interview

      ON AND off screen, Damian Lewis has been in the wars. At home in north London, five-year-old Gulliver is in the middle of a testosterone spike. Little sister Manon, four, is all sweetness and light, but his son is a running, punching, kicking, Power Rangers-mad ball of aggro energy. “You’re having a perfectly normal…

  • The Guardian Interview

    Survey Damian Lewis’s CV and you’ll find he’s had a string of roles that required him to exude a certain kind of laconic, tight-lipped, battle-hardened maleness, holding it together as things fall apart. In 1999, he starred as a lieutenant in Warriors, a BBC production about British peacekeepers. He then crossed the Atlantic and starred…

  • Time out Interview

    <br/ Within a few days, I’ve seen three sides to Damian Lewis. There’s the brilliantly gifted screen actor who plays Marine Sergeant Nick Brody, an American POW who may have turned Jihadist after eight years in captivity in Afghanistan in Channel 4’s gripping US import, ‘Homeland’. Then there’s the born stage performer at a Bafta…