Category: Interviews

  • 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…

  • Independent.ie Interview

      Damian Lewis has been up since 7am, but is on remarkably fine form – and has an admission to make. “You need to know I’m in my pyjamas, clasping a coffee,” he reveals, chuckling down the phone from America, where the working day’s just starting. The London native, best known for being in The…

  • Digital Spy Interview

      One of the best and most talked-about US dramas of recent times debuts on Channel 4 this weekend – Homeland is a scintillating psychological thriller, following a US PoW who is rescued after eight years in captivity and the CIA operative (Claire Danes) who’s convinced that he’s been turned by a terrorist cell… Digital…

  • New Zealand Listener Interview

      In Britain, Damian Lewis is known as a stage actor and star of low-key television treasures such as The Forsyte Saga and Friends and Crocodiles. But over in the US, he shot to fame in the Steven Spielberg-produced Band of Brothers. After starring in cop show Life, he was nominated for a Golden Globe…