Category: Interviews
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‘Homeland’ Star Dishes on Charlotte – Oct 5, 2011
Hiking, Swimming, and Southern Cooking by Staff | Charlotte Observer | October 5, 2011 During a day of filming at a cabin on Lake Norman, Lewis took a few minutes to talk about the show and Charlotte. Q. How are you enjoying Charlotte? I’d never been to the state before, so it’s been a novelty.…
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Damian Lewis Bikes in His ‘Homeland’ – Oct 5, 2011
From Recycling to Bicycling by Gerri Miller | Mother Nature Network | October 5, 2011 When he’s home in London, Damian Lewis bicycles everywhere because it saves money as well as energy. “We have a congestion charge in London. If you take your car to the center of town you gotta pay 15 bucks,” he…
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Philly.com interview
On TV, he’s a certified American military hero, first as Army Maj. Dick Winters, the central character in HBO’s epic 2001 mini-series, Band of Brothers, now as Marine Sgt. Nick Brody in Showtime’s riveting Homeland. Off camera, he’s a Londoner of Welsh extraction, an Eton grad and Royal Shakespeare Company trouper. There are times when…
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Collider.com Interview
Question: What attracted you to this show and this character? DAMIAN LEWIS: Well, what I read was a thrilling psychological and political thriller with a CIA agent convinced that this hero who returns, having been a POW with Al Qaeda for eight years, might have been turned by them and is a terrorist. I…
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Time Out Chicago Interview
As an unknown in Hollywood, Damian Lewis took a meeting more than a decade ago with Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. It landed him the career-boosting role of Maj. Richard Winters in HBO’s Band of Brothers. Now the 40-year-old English actor plays another American soldier, though a very different one: In Showtime’s new series Homeland,…
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New interview in The Times
The actor has no regrets about leaving Tinseltown for the mean streets of Manchester — and a spot of fishing It’s given that most actors don’t have two ha’pennies to rub together. The London-born actor Damian Lewis seems keen to show he’s not one of them — during the interview he holds two pounds…
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New Guardian Interview: Damian Lewis: Top of the cops
He made his name playing troubled soldiers and driven detectives. Why has success left Damian Lewis so unsatisfied? He talks heroism and home life with Maddy Costa Subtlety and restraint are Damian Lewis’s hallmarks as an actor. His ability to convey a character’s innermost thoughts with just a flicker of an eyebrow is even more…
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Damian Lewis: Top of the Cops – June 27, 2011
Damian Lewis: Top of the Cops He made his name playing troubled soldiers and driven detectives. Why has success left Damian Lewis so unsatisfied? He talks heroism and home life. by with Maddy Costa – The Guardian – 27 June 27 2011  ‘I wasn’t humble enough’ … Damian Lewis. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian Subtlety…