Category: Interviews
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‘Homeland’ Star Damian Lewis Shares Opinion On Iraq War
British actor Damian Lewis presents an impeccable American twang as Nicholas Brody in Showtime’s “Homeland,” where he tackles the tough subjects raised by the Iraq War in post-9/11 America. The 40-year-old actor talked to The Huffington Post about his views on the war, attending Eton College and meeting Steven Spielberg while hungover. Tell me…
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Homeland’s Damian Lewis on ‘American Damian,’ Rock-Star Fantasies, and Disturbing Sex Scenes
For a born and bred Brit, Damian Lewis has carved out a remarkably steady career playing dyed-in-the-wool Americans, memorably in Band of Brothers and on Life (he’s slated to play Union general James B. MacPherson in the upcoming Civil War mini-series To Appomattox, too). He’s added another super-convincing tortured good old boy to his résumé…
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Absolute Brighton interview
Sussex born and bred Hollywood actor Damian Lewis speaks exclusively to Danny Masters about his latest film role that surprisingly saw him working alongside one of his all time sporting heroes, Kenny Dalglish Your latest film, Will, is all about a football-mad boy. We saw you playing in the Soccer Aid games, do you think…
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Damian Lewis talks about ‘Will’
Damian Lewis was interviewed by the London radio station Magic 105.4 FM on Thursday. Click here for the interview or download it from our site here. Update: BBC Radio Scotland also interviewed him about Will: Click here to listen to the interview at the BBC website (at the 21:42 mark) or click here for an…
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Time and place: Damian Lewis
I never anticipated living in Camden Town. As an 18-year-old, I’d gone to the Crush nights at the Electric Ballroom, so I thought that this part of London was a place for students and people wearing tie-dye T-shirts. But I found a fantastic little house with a roof terrace in a gorgeous, very urban row…
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‘Homeland’s’ Cast and Crew on ‘Incredibly Shocking’ Finale and More
ABCNews.com: How did you prepare to play Sgt. Brody? Lewis: Brody was a very tough character for the guys to write, I think. The idea that this man had been captured in the early days of the Iraq war, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and was held prisoner and then released eight years later, I think what…
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Damian Lewis: An actor at the top of his game
Football is a funny game with a strange habit of dividing families and testing loyalties. In any other circumstance, Damian Lewis would never dream of highlighting any differences he and his wife, the actress Helen McCrory, have over bringing up their children; indeed they always show the upmost discretion in interviews, but the beautiful game…
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Damian Lewis happy to be troubled in ‘Homeland’
Damian Lewis has played a vast range of characters, from emotionally racked fathers to villainous aristocrats. But his recent television projects suggest that he’s developing a specialty: prisoners who find life outside to have its own considerable challenges. In NBC’s quirky series “Life,” Lewis played an ex-cop released after years of being wrongly imprisoned.…